feminisminindia.com / By WomenMarch4Change
For the last five years, women of India have watched with growing anger as our struggles for equality have been dented and our hard-won freedoms undermined. We have watched the present government and its followers spread misogyny, hate and lies across this land. Today, on the eve of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, we say, NO MORE!
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Kractivist.org / Statement by Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy
India has witnessed a drastic rise in attacks on human rights activists, journalists, lawyers, farmers, adivasis, RTI activists, students, academicians, workers, protestors etc. opposing anti-people policies of the government and protesting human rights violations. The constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of speech and expression, association and assembly are under severe threat. Several people across the country have been criminalized in false and fabricated cases.
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Sabrang India / By Sabrang India
Detained human rights defenders Sudha Bhardwaj and Shoma Sen expressed their solidarity with Women’s March India when making an appearance in court. They said that they would march inside their jail cells on April 4.
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Times of India / By TNN
PUNE: A group of 25 authors, poets and activists from Telangana were in the special UAPA court here on Tuesday to express their solidarity with veteran activist-writer P Varavara Rao, facing prosecution in the Elgar Parishad case, but police could not produce him and six other arrested activists before the judge in the absence of adequate number of escorts.
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Cgbasket.in / By Chhattisgarh Basket
„We shall speak, we shall perform, we shall dance, we shall sing towards that dawn when the idea of justice is materialized in this country.“
The All India Cultural Convention – Pratirodh Ek Jan Sanskritik Dakhal held at Bhillai, Chhattisgarh on the 16th and 17th of March 2019 saw the participation of more than two hundred representatives from various cultural action groups across India.
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The Leaflet / By Nihalsing B Tathod
Presently incarcerated in a jail in Pune, people’s lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj has been honoured by Harvard University, for her contribution towards law and policy. The National Secretary of the Peoples Union for Civil Liberties has been placed 5th in rank amongst 21 prominent women across the globe. Harvard University has previously honoured Angela Davis and Hillary Clinton.
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Photo credits: Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha – Mazdoor Karyakarta Committee
Solidarity with Sudha Bharadwaj and other accused at International Women´s Day in Raipur (Chhattisgarh).
The Wire / By The Wire Staff
Twenty members of European parliament have written to the Indian government and National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) expressing concern over the crackdown on human rights defenders. They have urged India to create a more open civil society space.
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Newsclick / By Yogesh S
The convention also recognised the failure of the criminal justice system in the country, and talked about various draconian laws that are still being used to silence the voices of dissent.
The three-day convention was attended by 150 people from eleven states. In the light of the ongoing onslaught on the rights of various communities, attack on freedom of expression, and speech and growing intolerance in the country, the theme of the convention was ‘Threats and challenges to the idea of pluralism, democracy and the constitution’.
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Statement by VIRASAM (Revolutionary Writer’s Association)
Statement from Feb 1 2019
We strongly condemn implicating Varavara Rao and Surendra Gadling in yet another false case. Revolutionary poet, one of the founders of VIRASAM, Varavararao and advocate Surendra Gadling are charged with another concocted case by RSS police of Maharashtra. Yes, they are in fact acting like RSS members rather than state police.
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