Citizens for Justice and Peace
Muslims Constitute 14% of India, But Just 3% of India Inc
07-Sep-2015
Only 2.67% of senior execs in BSE 500 cos are Muslims Last Monday , Vice President Hamid Ansari referred to the appalling state of Muslims and goaded the state and other societal actors towards affirmative action. But how does India Inc fare on this count? An ET Intelligence Group analysis indicate Muslims constitute a mere…
Learning disability: No testing tool yet for Urdu medium students
20-Aug-2015
Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice A K Menon were hearing a suo motu public interest litigation (PIL) in the form of a letter written to the court by two psychiatrists. Mumbai Published:Aug 20, 2015, 3:24 While hearing a matter pertaining to students with learning disability, the Bombay High Court was informed that no test…
Assistant professor Reem Shamsudeen alleged that she was denied a rented house in Delhi for being a Muslim.
24-Jul-2015
Visually-impaired Muslim woman appeals to Kejriwal after being denied accommodation A visually-impaired Muslim woman from Kerala, who is an assistant professor in a college affiliated to Delhi University, has alleged that she was denied a rented house in Delhi for being a Muslim. In a short video addressed to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Reem…
Landlessness is higher among Dalits but more adivasis are ‘deprived’
06-Jul-2015
The SECC has identified 14 parameters of exclusion. Fulfilling even one of them would result in a household being treated as non-deprived. Written by Harish Damodaran | New Delhi | How do higher landlessness and manual casual labour dependence among Dalit families square up with their lower deprivation incidence, as per the SECC data? Adivasis…
Discrimination against Dalit women in Ahmedabad
05-Jul-2015
Submitted by TwoCircles.net on 5 July 2015 – 6:26pm (Editor’s Note: This is Case Study which is part of a new annual report titled ‘State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2015’ prepared by Minority Rights Group International’s.) By Rajiv Shah, In Ahmedabad, located in the heart of Gujarat state, Dalits have been an…
Transgender Men Continue to Struggle for Visibility in Social Change
05-Jul-2015
All India | Written by Sutapa Deb | Updated: July 05, 2015 09:32 IST While transgender women have visibility, trangender men still struggle for social cover. New Delhi: Over a year after the Supreme Court’s landmark judgement on transgender rights, one group among the transgender community continues to be left out. The term transgender is…
‘Sweeper’ boxer Krishna Rout seeks a job of dignity from Mamata government
04-Jul-2015
“Earlier I worked for five years as a sweeper of the Corporation, but in 2005 I was given the job of spraying disinfectants in drains which I have been doing for the past ten years,” said Rout. By: Press Trust of India | Howrah | Published:July 4, 2015 4:54 pm Former national boxer Krishna Rout,…
Dalit commission member calls separate crematoria inhuman
04-Jul-2015
Updated: Jul 04, 2015 09:05 IST Showing deep concern over separate crematoria for Dalits in Haryana villages, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) member Ishwar Singh has demanded that this practice be made a criminal offence. Ishwar Singh, who was here on Friday to convene a meeting with the district officials, said that Haryana…
Caste system has not spared even the dead, laments HC
04-Jul-2015
MOHAMED IMRANULLAH S. “What is prevalent and practiced in Hinduism appears to have been percolated into Christianity.” The Madras High Court Bench here on Thursday expressed deep concern over the caste system not having spared even dead bodies from its fold and lamented that the practice had percolated into Christianity too by making the followers…
Dalits protest construction of fence blocking path to their locality
26-Jun-2015
PUDUKOTTAI: About 70 dalit families of a village at S Usilampatti panchayat in Pudukottai district are forced to take a detour of 3.5km as a vacant land on the path to their locality has been fenced by the owner of the land belonging to thevar community. The dalits in Ponamaravathi village have been facing the…