SDTT-PVCHR initiative on Integrated approach of technology in education:
Speech of Maulana Abdul Batin Nomani, the mufti of Benares. Please read this:
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Monday, February 3, 2014
‘প্রভাবদুষ্ট রাজনীতি বাংলাদেশে ন্যায় বিচার প্রাপ্তিতে বড় বাধা’
Our Founder and CEO Lenin Raghuvanshis' interview published in the Manab Zamin (Bengali: মানবজমিন "People's Land") which is a major daily tabloid newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Dhaka in the Bengali language. It is the first and largest circulated Bengali tabloid daily in the world, with monthly website hits of 3,270,000. 590,000 visitors from 179 countries from all over the planet visit the web site every month, making it one of most visited Bengali-language online publications worldwide. The newspaper is also the only Bangladeshi newspaper to boast credentials and affiliations with FIFA, UEFA, and the English Premier League. It has also partnered with Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. in publicity for Hollywood productions, including Batman Begins, Superman Returns and Casino Royale.
About newspaper:
‘প্রভাবদুষ্ট রাজনীতি বাংলাদেশে ন্যায় বিচার প্রাপ্তিতে বড় বাধা’
Friday, January 10, 2014
...जब इटली से आए विदेशियों ने यहां लगाई दिलचस्प पंचायत!
..जब इटली से आए विदेशियों ने यहां लगाई दिलचस्प पंचायत!
वाराणसी. इटली से आए 32 लोगों की एक टीम ने पिंडरा ब्लाक के सराय गांव के
मुसहर बस्ती में अपनी पंचायत लगाई। बेरोजगारी और अशिक्षा की वजह से इस
बस्ती के लोग बंधुआ मजदूरी के चंगुल में दशकों से फंसे थे।
मानवाधिकार जन निगरानी समिति के अचूक प्रयासों की वजह से आज पूरा गांव इस
दलदल से बाहर आ चुका है। इन ग्रामीणों के संघर्ष कि दिलचस्प कहानी को सुनने
और जांबाज़ी को सलाम करने इटली से यह टीम यहां पहुंची।
ग्रामीण
राम दयाल ने बताया कि मानवाधिकार जननिगरानी ने 2004 में इस गांव में लोगों
को एकजुट करना शुरू किया, जब यहां पर लोग बंधुआ मजदूरी करते थे। यहां इन
लोगों के पास जीवन जीने के लिए कोई भी मूलभूत सुविधाए उपलब्ध नहीं थी। लोग
दबंगों से बहुत डरे और सहमे रहते थे।
इसके बाद बस्ती में
धीरे-धीर लोगों में जागरूकता बढ़ी और योजनाओं तक लोगों की पहुंच बढ़ी।
महासचिव डॉ लेलिन ने बताया कि ये विदेशी उन दलितों मुसहर जाति के लोगों से
प्रभावित हैं, जो कभी गुलाम हुआ करते थे। बंधुआ मजदूरी के गर्त में डूबे
हुए थे। आज की इस बदली हुई तस्वीर को देखने ही इटली से इतने सारे लोग यहां
आए हैं।
क्या कहा इटली से आई टीम ने
फादर बरनैडो
सर्वेलेरा ने बताया कि ग्रामीणों में गजब का आत्मविश्वास है। इन लोगों ने
जीवन की दिशा और दशा दोनों को बदला है। इटली से आए अन सभी लोगों ने इनके
संघर्ष की लड़ाई से बहुत कुछ सीखा है।
हम इसे इटली के लोगों को
बताएंगे कि कैसे संसाधन विहीन समुदाय ने संघर्ष से अपने जीवन को खुशहाल
बनाया है। फादर बरनैडो सर्वेलेरा ने कहा कि हर ईसाई और कैथोलिक उनके
अहिंसात्मक संघर्षों के साथ है।
आगे देखें इटली से आए इन लोगों ने कैसे जानी गांव वालों की दास्तां...
Trend of rising torture based on religion, caste and gender trigger a sense of alarm
"In ancient republics, torture was tied
to citizenship. Torture was inflicted exclusively on non-
citizens like slaves, barbarians and foreigners. As an
instrument of demarcation, torture delineates the boundary between
slaves and free, between the touchable bodies of free citizens
and untouchable bodies of the slaves. It is unimaginable that
modern democracies like India are as weak as Athenian democracy and
the prevalence of practice of torture resemble the Athenian
model. Today torture victim include not only terrorists and criminalsbut
street children, migrants, socially marginalized group s and
religiously discriminated communities. All of them now fall into
the class of quasi citizens. It is time to break conspiracy of
silence."
Friday, December 27, 2013
Fighting caste discrimination
Caste is one of India’s most enduring institutions and still retains its hold on Indian society. For those not fortunate to be born in the higher echelons of the caste hierarchy, life can be difficult indeed. Despite government efforts, caste discrimination is still rife, and low-caste Indians have to bear the brunt of poverty, illiteracy and violence. Lenin Raghuvanshi is in the forefront of the fight against caste discrimination, to ensure a just and equal society.
Raghuvanshi is the founder of the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), which fights for the rights of marginalized people in several North Indian states, especially in the area around Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
Raghuvanshi was born in an upper caste family, which he describes as “feudal”. He got a bachelor’s degree in ayurveda, modern medicine and surgery from the State Ayurvedic College in Haridwar. But the social inequities that faced India made him take up the cause of bonded labourers. This is when he noticed that not a single bonded labourer came from the upper caste, and realised that the problem was essentially caste.
In 1996, Raghuvanshi founded PVCHR to fight the caste system. He works to ensure basic rights to vulnerable groups like children, women, Dalits, tribes and minorities. Raghuvanshi and his team works at the grassroots level in Varanasi and around 200 villages in Uttar Pradesh and five other states. PVCHR works to eliminate situations that give rise to the exploitation of vulnerable and marginalized groups, and to start a movement for a people-friendly movement (Jan Mitra Samaj) through an inter-institutional approach.
Raghuvanshi has his task cut out for him since the lot of Dalits and other oppressed minorities continues to be dismal. “In the past, if anyone from the lower caste breached the unwritten law of caste hierarchy, the person would be beaten up in public. Now the person will be shot dead and the village burnt down and the women raped. A bridegroom riding a horse during his wedding, an enterprising peasant digging a well on his land, if a boy falls in love with a girl – do you kill them? Yet, if they belong to the Dalit caste they are killed. We still say that there is rule of law in India,” he said in his acceptance speech while receiving the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights.
He is also concerned about the plight of women and children in this country. “India is still very much a patriarchal and caste-based society with gender discrimination. The destructive effects of gender discrimination, patriarchal oppression and the semi-feudal society so prevalent in 21st century India are manifest in our 55 million children, employed at times in subhuman conditions,” he says in a newspaper interview.
Raghuvanshi received the Gwangju Human Rights Award in 2007. He was made an Ashoka Fellow in 2001 and was presented the International Human Rights Prize of the City of Weimar (Germany) in 2010. Raghuvanshi once said to a newspaper that caste discrimination is so rife in Bundelkhand that a Dalit has to take off his chappal and hold it in his hand if a person belonging to the Thakur caste approaches. It’s not something that would make us proud.
Raghuvanshi is the founder of the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), which fights for the rights of marginalized people in several North Indian states, especially in the area around Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
Raghuvanshi was born in an upper caste family, which he describes as “feudal”. He got a bachelor’s degree in ayurveda, modern medicine and surgery from the State Ayurvedic College in Haridwar. But the social inequities that faced India made him take up the cause of bonded labourers. This is when he noticed that not a single bonded labourer came from the upper caste, and realised that the problem was essentially caste.
In 1996, Raghuvanshi founded PVCHR to fight the caste system. He works to ensure basic rights to vulnerable groups like children, women, Dalits, tribes and minorities. Raghuvanshi and his team works at the grassroots level in Varanasi and around 200 villages in Uttar Pradesh and five other states. PVCHR works to eliminate situations that give rise to the exploitation of vulnerable and marginalized groups, and to start a movement for a people-friendly movement (Jan Mitra Samaj) through an inter-institutional approach.
Raghuvanshi has his task cut out for him since the lot of Dalits and other oppressed minorities continues to be dismal. “In the past, if anyone from the lower caste breached the unwritten law of caste hierarchy, the person would be beaten up in public. Now the person will be shot dead and the village burnt down and the women raped. A bridegroom riding a horse during his wedding, an enterprising peasant digging a well on his land, if a boy falls in love with a girl – do you kill them? Yet, if they belong to the Dalit caste they are killed. We still say that there is rule of law in India,” he said in his acceptance speech while receiving the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights.
He is also concerned about the plight of women and children in this country. “India is still very much a patriarchal and caste-based society with gender discrimination. The destructive effects of gender discrimination, patriarchal oppression and the semi-feudal society so prevalent in 21st century India are manifest in our 55 million children, employed at times in subhuman conditions,” he says in a newspaper interview.
Raghuvanshi received the Gwangju Human Rights Award in 2007. He was made an Ashoka Fellow in 2001 and was presented the International Human Rights Prize of the City of Weimar (Germany) in 2010. Raghuvanshi once said to a newspaper that caste discrimination is so rife in Bundelkhand that a Dalit has to take off his chappal and hold it in his hand if a person belonging to the Thakur caste approaches. It’s not something that would make us proud.
How can you Help?
Caste approaches is not something that would make us proud
Contact details of the NGO/Institution
Name : Lenin Raghuvanshi
Email ID : lenin@pvchr.asia
Contact Number : 9935599333
Website : http://www.pvchr.asia
Address : PVCHR Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Monday, September 2, 2013
PVCHR: Face of Human Rights initiative in India
PVCHR: Face of Human Rights initiative in India: I am unsatisfied with Human Rights Defender desk of NHRC. Please read our urgent appeal on 25 January 2013. I wrote to NHRC. http://...
PVCHR: Face of Human Rights initiative in India
PVCHR: Face of Human Rights initiative in India: I am unsatisfied with Human Rights Defender desk of NHRC. Please read our urgent appeal on 25 January 2013. I wrote to NHRC. http://...
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