Do Good without Fear! – I
The path to goodness is strewn with thorns. Krishna presents a seven-part series on the Goodness Guide, beginning this week. It needs more strength to do good than to do...
The Right to Life, Liberty and Security: Has India Failed to keep its Human Rights Obligations?
The growing number of extra judicial killings, rampant discrimination against vulnerable groups, tribal and Adivasi, including minorities and legal immunity (of perpetrators) Custodial torture, inherent in daily police practice, still remains...
Reality and Intervention of Witch Hunting: A Crime against Human Dignity
The easiest way to grab a woman’s property in rural hinterland is to brand her a witch. Unbelievable but horrifically true in 21st century India, women in the interiors of states are beaten, paraded naked, disgraced, ostracised and then robbed of...
Resilience Based on Hope, Honour and Dignity
Without the awareness of their rights, these marginalised people suffer in silence and brokenness. Torture is an intentional use of intolerable pain to destroy/damage the physical and psychological integrity of...
End Unlawful Torture in India: Political Consensus to Pass the Prevention of Torture Bill is Must
Use of torture, both physical and psychological torture, illegal detentions and filing of false cases go unchecked and are used as an instrument for forced confession, submission and extortion. Over the...
One Humanity: The Theme for the World Humanitarian Day 2016
The first World Humanitarian Summit, held on May 23 and 24, 2016, in Istanbul, convened 9,000 participants from 173 member-states, including 55 Heads of the states and governments, hundreds of private...
Atrocities against Dalits: Unfolding Humanitarian Crisis in India
A humanitarian crisis (read disaster) is defined as a singular event or a series of events that are threatening in terms of health, safety or well-being of a community or...
Caste and Torture
The National Human Rights Commission (2011) notes that from 2001 to 2010, there were 4,034 custodial deaths and 1,836 cases of custodial torture registered in India. The worst affected state...
From Horror to Healing: National Convention in Solidarity with Torture Victims
The National Convention appealed to Parliament, state assemblies and the executive to take multiple, specific and practical steps to ensure both the abolition of torture and put in place, at...
A Nepali Youth Recounts his Experiences in Norway and India
Sangita profiles Nirmal Kumar Paundel, a fellow Nepali FK Fellow. She documents the experiences of Nirmal in Norway and gives an insight about the FK Youth programme, Norway. Nirmal Kumar Paudel,...