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‘Forum for Electoral Integrity’ petitions NHRC over mass voter disenfranchisement under SIR

The Forum for Electoral Integrity has petitioned the National Human Rights Commission to urgently intervene in the Election Commission’s SIR process, citing UN concerns, the coalition alleges the arbitrary, mass deletion of 52 million voters, disproportionately targeting Muslim and Bengali citizens through organised campaigns and opaque AI systems

Stop evicting workers from their homes in Bhilai: NAPM to Chhattisgarh CM

The government is planning to demolish 30 houses belonging to workers who work in factories in the Bhilai Industrial Area

Cancel mandatory university final exams: Joint Forum for Movement of Education

Demand to withdraw revised UGC guidelines about universities being required to complete final year examinations by September 2020

Bihar Adivasis revive the call for ‘Jal-Jungle -Zameen’

The Adivasis of Adhaora, Kaimur have been leading this struggle for decades, but the lockdown has exacerbated the government’s efforts to evict these tribes

Jammu and Kashmir: The impact of lockdowns on Human Rights

Forum for Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir’s report highlights human rights violations in the UT

UP Congress minority cell launches campaign for Dr. Kafeel Khan’s release

The door-to-door campaign will run till August 12 and see massive mobilisation of the minority community

Another explosion at Baghjan oil well injures three foreign experts

The explosion reportedly took place while the Baghjan oil well capping operations were underway

Is this the “Ram Rajya” promised by the BJP: Congress attacks UP govt 

Politics, attempts of communalising journalist’s Vikram Joshi’s murder, expose the state yet again

GN Saibaba should be shifted to hospital before it’s too late: NPRD

National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled seeks National Human Rights Commission’s urgent intervention

HRDA India exposes UP Police’s tactics to muzzle voice of human rights defender Raja Bhaiyya

The HRD had allegedly worked with an Aaj Tak journalist to expose how women were being sexually exploited in the Karwi mines in UP

Odisha villagers burn couple after accusing them of practicing ‘black magic’

In another incident in the state, a woman was forcibly fed pig excreta by a sorcerer who tried to exorcise her

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