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HR NEWS, 24 JUNE 2011

HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS BULLETIN

(An Electronic Newsletter of Indian Social Institute, New Delhi)

Volume 13

JUNE, 2011

No. 07

 

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1. HUMAN RIGHTS GENERAL

Governor seeks clarifications on mercy plea

Man gets life term for murder of colleague

Rs 47.5 lakh damages to girl disabled for life in road accident

Grocer jailed for selling adulterated dal

6 family members sentenced to jail for dacoity

Institutions can’t claim exemption under RTI Act: CIC

No conviction unless charged even if autopsy reveals rape:SC

Man gets seven years' RI for sexually abusing cousin

Soon, get barred from polls and face prison for attending khap panchayats

 

2. DALIT/ SCHEDULED CASTES

Dalit woman panchayat chief “faced discrimination”

Dalit beaten to death following petty issue

Shame! Manual scavenging continues in KGF

Haryana fails to set up State Scheduled Castes Commission

Manual scavenging: Centre told to take action in 2 months

Dalits shift children from school at Villoor

Dalit labourers attacked

 

3. HEALTH

Make healthcare legal entitlement: Binayak

Bihar mystery fever toll climbs to 33

‘Mystery disease' punches holes in Bihar's health scheme

 

4 DISPLACEMENT/ REHABILFTATION

Guwahati protesters on the rampage, 2 killed in police firing

Gobindpur villagers observe 'Black day' to protest Posco deal

 

5. CRIME/ CORRUPTION

Police regular visitor to abusive baba's ashram'

CMO murder accused found hanging in Lucknow jail

Maoist's wife alleges mental torture in Koraput jail

Home Ministry orders probe into ex-CJI Balakrishnan's assets

Lucknow jailor suspended for Deputy CMO's death

 

6. TRIBALS

Consult Jarawas on their future, NAC tells Ministry

NGO under police scanner for suspected role in trafficking

Govt employees' names deleted from BPL list

 

7. MINORITIES

Equality panel to cover pvt sector?

Forbesganj police firing unjustified: minority panel chief

NAC agrees to make 49 amendments to Communal Violence Bill

 

8. WOMEN

Mayawati calls for more stringent punishment to rape accused

Girl gang-raped at Maharashtra railway station

Only one public toilet for 1.4 lakh women in Haryana

Moral policing: Woman IT official attacked in Kochi

Speaker's bid fails to break logjam over Women's Bill

Maid gangraped by NGO owners, 1 held

UP Police decides to put rape cases under `Special Report' category

Two Uttar Pradesh cops booked for gang-rape

Groom's family demands Rs 1 lakh, girl opts out

 

9. ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

“Land acquisition shouldn't be through coercion”

Anti-Jindal campaigners denied bail in Chhattisgarh High Court

Jail for six for polluting water body

 

10. HOUSING/SLUMS

“6,000 houses soon for families living in jhuggis”

 

11. EDUCATION

No illegality in denying headmaster post: HC

Chaos in Kerala medical education sector

National book promotion policy soon

 

12. TERRORISM AND INSURGENCY

Maoist leader's wife killed, baby dumped in well

Army, AFSPA not needed to fight Maoists: MK Narayanan

Four Maoists sentenced to death for Chilkari massacre

 

13. REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS

Migrant labourers: Waiting to go home, the nowhere people!

 

14. LABOUR

“Transfer pension to beneficiaries' accounts”

Don't incur court ire again: Vilasrao

Domestic workers entitled to health insurance

 

15. DEFENCE

High-level task force to review defence preparedness

High-level task force to review defence preparedness

108 militants to return home from PoK next month

 

16. NATURAL DISASTER

Over 6 lakh affected in Bengal floods

 

17. CHILDREN

High Court ruling on adoption of children

 

18. ECONOMY

Shifting to new accounting system will not be easy: FM

Food subsidy bill may touch Rs 75K cr on back of Food Security Act

Salaried class with income up toRs. 5 lakh exempted from IT return

Sebi to Sahara: Refund money raised via OFCDs with 15% interest

 

19. POLITICS

BJP brass wary of losing its OBC face

 

20. AGRICULTURE

Mamata to use 1895 Raj law to return land

Court: No coercive steps to recover farm loans

Orissa suspends land acquisition indefinitely

Serve notice on WB Govt first: Court

Protest over forcible acquisition of Mansa land

 

21. POVERTY

NAC to finalise Food Security Bill draft today

NAC clears drafts of Food Security, Communal Violence Bills

 

23. PANCHAYATI RAJ

Counselling on crop protection at every panchayat inaugurated

Panchayat posts under hammer, Rs 20 lakh minimum for top chair

 

24. RESERVATION

Reserved category students make it on merit

Backward classes panel meets on quota issue

 

25. FASCIST CULTURE/HINDUTVA

Aseemanand wanted special group to plant bomb

 

26. POLITICAL/DEMOTRATIC RIGHTS: OTHER NATIONS

Jayalalithaa seeks Manmohan's help to secure fishermen's release

Fishermen issue: parties seek immediate action

Maoists in Nepal use CD to fan anti-India sentiments

 

 

 

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