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Vedanta-Sterlite – Dangerous by Design #CSR #Humanrightsviolations

 Nityanand Jayaraman MARCH 28, 2013  at kafila.org Guest Post by  NITYANAND JAYARAMAN  A toxic hotspot in the backyard of a house in Therkuveerapandiapuram, a village adjoining the Sterlite factory.  Dangerous levels of iron and arsenic were found in the soil here. (Picture… Continue Reading →

Jharkhand – Tribal and Cultural Activist Jiten Marandi released from jail #goodnews

RANCHI, March 29, 2013, The Hindu Jiten Marandi, cultural activist and one of the secretaries of Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners was released from Birsa jail in Hotwar in Ranchi on Thursday. He was accused with 19 others in… Continue Reading →

Chhattisgarh: Tribal girls reveal tales of violence, sexual abuse #Vaw #WTFnews

Chhattisgarh, Updated Mar 28, 2013   New Delhi: Last week, the government passed the much awaited Anti-rape Bill. The Bill promises to tackle sexual crime. But will it really make a difference, especially in the remote corners of this country. An… Continue Reading →

Narendra Modi’s strange bedfellows in Washington DC

March 29, 2013   Guest post by ZAHIR JANMOHAMED, kafila.org PTI photo The headline on Zee News at 5:09pm today read: “America opens its gates for ‘very dynamic’ Narendra Modi.” The Business Standard in an article posted a few minutes… Continue Reading →

FBI Pursuing Real- Time Gmail Spying Powers as “Top Priority” for 2013 #privacy

By Ryan Gallagher For now, law enforcement has trouble monitoring Gmail communications in real time Image courtesy Google Despite the pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance of digital communication, the FBI still has a difficult time monitoring Gmail, Google Voice, and Dropbox… Continue Reading →

#India -129 People Jailed for Protesting Against Kalpakkam Reactor #WTFnews

29 March, 2013 — In a bid to intimidate fenceline communities living around the Kalpakkam nuclear reactors, the Tamil Nadu Police has jailed 129 people of the 650 that were detained in wedding halls yesterday. Those detained were protesting to highlight… Continue Reading →

#India -Do you know incentive and target based health services can be coercive ? #Vaw

Permanent sterilization-incentive based and target based health services: a glimpse from Rajasthan – Leena Uppal My elder sister in law was the one who suggested that I should go for female sterilization, if I get lucky I may win a motor… Continue Reading →

Dalits stopped from performing Holi puja in Haryana village #WTFnews

    PTI Mar 28, 2013,TNN ROHTAK: Schedule Caste (SC) families were stoppped from performing Holi pooja and assaulted allegedly by the members of upper caste at Jahangirpur village of Jhajjar district of Haryana. Police have started investigation into the matter… Continue Reading →

#India- Caste discrimination, apathy leading to suicides on campus

Nikhila Henry, TNN | Mar 29, 2013, HYDERABAD: P Raju, the dalit student who killed himself on March 19 at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) feared he would not be allowed to attend classes in the coming semester due to three backlogs and sank into depression.But Raju… Continue Reading →

Monsanto Bullies Small Farmers Over Planting Harvested GMO Seeds

by Puck Lo, CorpWatch Blog March 26th, 2013 “Seed Giants vs. U.S. Farmers.” New report by Center for Food Safety. Does Monsanto own all future generations of genetically modified seeds that it sells? The Missouri-based agribusiness giant wants farmers to pay a… Continue Reading →

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