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Documents Cannot Decide Democracy: How CJP is training communities to navigate the SIR process

Through a series of trainings in Maharashtra with community groups and civil society organisations, CJP and VFD are helping vulnerable communities understand the SIR process, resist panic, and protect their voting rights amid growing fears of exclusion and disenfranchisement

Assam’s Detention Camps: Purgatory or Hell? 

Purgatory is a place where souls go to atone...

Liberalism and Sabarimala: Why Shashi Tharoor is Wrong

Shashi Tharoor, in an article published in The Print...

I have only You, and no one else: Maaysha, Sudha Bhardwaj’s daughter

In a moving letter, Maaysha, human rights activist Sudha...

How The Lights Came Back In Kerala’s Ravaged Homes

Thiruvananthapuram, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha and Ernakulam (Kerala): Nileena and Cherian...

The Ghosts of Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Death Still Lingers, Who’s Accountable?

The survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy and their...

Fear grips minority areas in Sitamarhi district after 3 lynchings that resulted in one death: Bihar

Report on Sitamarhi violence shows pre-planned conspiracy reportedly lead...

Women candidates break records in the 2018 US midterm elections

Sharice Davids, the first lesbian Native American Congresswoman. EPA-EFE  The 2018...

Why India’s Children Must Wait Till 2022 To Get Justice Under Law Meant To Protect Them

Kolkata: Children participate in an awareness rally against child...

Press Freedom Under Severe Attack in Bastar

A few days ago, the South Asia correspondent for...

With press freedom under attack, are elections in Bastar truly democratic?

Chhattisgarh is in the final stages of electioneering preparing...

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