Tuesday, May 31, 2011

HR NEWS, 31 MAY 2011

HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS BULLETIN

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

Volume 13

MAY, 2011

No. 09

 

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1. HUMAN RIGHTS GENERAL

Woman gets life term for killing husband

Death sentence caught in a row

Supreme Court reveals four points essential to escape murder conviction

Man gets life for ‘honour-killing' of daughter

Lokpal will not eradicate corruption, says Binayak Sen

 

2. DALIT/ SCHEDULED CASTES

Priest, son held for beating Dalit boy

NAC wants new law to end practice of manual scavenging

Dalit grooms asked to get off from horses in Raj

Seven Dalit families flee from village

 

3. HEALTH

ICMR working on oral vaccine against cholera

Tobacco farming is also injurious to health

 

5. CRIME/ CORRUPTION

Nun complains against Jetlite

Judicial magistrate convicted, jailed in Gujarat

Prisoners beat doctor to death

100 cops in dock as 2 Bluelines flout rules

 

6. TRIBALS

State issues notices to 72 Thane schools for tribals

Necessary to ensure livelihood security of tribals: Tirath

 

7. MINORITIES

Alencherry installedas Major Archbishop

Kerala textbook contains anti-church contents: Catholic church

Protestant church backs St Mary’s

 

8. WOMEN

Women more vulnerable to harassment for dowry

 

10. HOUSING/SLUMS

Doubts cast over redevelopment of Dharavi sector five

Medha Patkar ends fast after Maha govt agrees to demands

 

11. EDUCATION

Pvt schools to face prosecution for unfair admission practice

SC refuses to stay implementation of semester system

 

12. TERRORISM AND INSURGENCY

Maoist couple surrenders at Puri

I am not a sympathiser or opposer of Naxals: Binayak Sen

 

14. LABOUR

HC dismisses plea against extended working hours

CII to help SC, ST candidates get jobs

 

15. DEFENCE

Why does Arundhati Roy want to burn Kashmir: Abdullah

 

16. NATURAL DISASTER

Tanker fire, road mishap kill 36 in Assam

 

17. CHILDREN

128 kids died after vaccine in 2010, govt can't say why

Rescued children suffering from abuse find no solace in State orphanages

 

18. ECONOMY

Govt hikes FDI limit in carriage services

Govt introduces new provisions in FCRA Act 2010

 

19. POLITICS

Binayak Sen says BJP has problem with his work

Breach in collective responsibility hurts govt and Ministers must speak as one: Constitution

 

20. AGRICULTURE

Now, dalit farmers accuse Gujarata government of land grabbing

Crop rots, farmer kills himself

 

21. POVERTY

India's 68 pc people may get legal right to subsidised food

 

23. PANCHAYATI RAJ

No-confidence can't be vested in the bureaucracy: SC

 

24. RESERVATION

State to retain 34 per cent reservation for Backward Classes in panchayat elections

 

26. POLITICAL/DEMOTRATIC RIGHTS: OTHER NATIONS

Short-range nukes show Pak targeting Indian forces: Expert

India, Pakistan discuss demilitarisation of Siachen

 

 

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