4th April 2012, Chandigarh, Panjab: Voices For Freedom (VFF) filed a public interest litigation (PIL)yesterday asking the Punjab and Haryana High Court for directions to quash the appointment of Panjab Director General of Police (DGP) Sumedh Saini on grounds that his appointment was unlawful. The High Court has adjourned the hearing to April 17thfor VFF [...]
27th July 2010, Toronto, Canada: Voices For Freedom (VFF) calls for the Governments of India and France to ensure health and safety of Pal Singh, citizen of France, who has been arrested and denied basic and integral rights in Jallandhar, Punjab. Pal Singh, an elderly gentleman who is dedicated to volunteer work also suffers from [...]
Grim Picture of Human Rights in India. Courtesy The Seoul Times Toronto, June 26th 2010: What has India got to hide? Despite claiming to be the world’s largest democracy, India continues to engage in acts which are an insult to the very notion of human rights. Under the reign of impunity, human rights abuses continue [...]
CHANDIGARH: In a unique effort to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and opening a frontal battle against Indian fascist stratagems and forces, several Sikh organizations, political and social leaders, religious personalities and intellectuals gathered to understand linkages and interconnections between “Neo-fascism, Human Rights and Social Democracy” at a seminar organized [...]
The image of India is that of a democratic, multicultural, inclusive society. But more often than not, appearances are not reality. India is a republic—a secular, socialist, democratic republic—where millions of children, women and men remain demoralised, enslaved to the powerful, crying out for fundamentals of life. Fragmented along fault-lines of caste, class,f gender, ethnicity, [...]
CHANDIGARH: In a unique effort to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and opening a frontal battle against Indian fascist stratagems and forces, several Sikh organizations, political and social leaders, religious personalities and intellectuals gathered to understand linkages and interconnections between “Neo-fascism, Human Rights and Social Democracy” at a seminar organized [...]
The image of India is that of a democratic, multicultural, inclusive society. But more often than not, appearances are not reality. India is a republic—a secular, socialist, democratic republic—where millions of children, women and men remain demoralised, enslaved to the powerful, crying out for fundamentals of life. Fragmented along fault-lines of caste, class,f gender, ethnicity, [...]
Long and Unending wait for Justice for the Disappeared in Panjab The continuing struggle for justice for the disappeared in Panjab has met with roadblocks and an attitude that those who suffered at the hands of police and security agencies do not deserve recourse to justice. The attitude of “expendable minorities” and brazen [...]
April 19, 2012: The Union Cabinet of the republic of India in a meeting on April 12, 2012, chaired by the Prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, decided to restore the Anand Marriage Act and gave the approval to table the bill in the parliament in the budget session to be resumed from 24th of April [...]
4th April 2012, Chandigarh, Panjab: Voices For Freedom (VFF) filed a public interest litigation (PIL)yesterday asking the Punjab and Haryana High Court for directions to quash the appointment of Panjab Director General of Police (DGP) Sumedh Saini on grounds that his appointment was unlawful. The High Court has adjourned the hearing to April 17thfor VFF [...]
Chandigarh, Panjab: How long will Parkash Singh Badal, the recently re-elected Chief Minister of Panjab, keep his eyes closed and lips locked on the plight of the Sikh community in the state of Panjab? Years after years are going by but the autumn-stern destiny of the Sikh community is not finding the blow of wind [...]
April 19, 2012: The Union Cabinet of the republic of India in a meeting on April 12, 2012, chaired by the Prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, decided to restore the Anand Marriage Act and gave the approval to table the bill in the parliament in the budget session to be resumed from 24th of April [...]
4th April 2012, Chandigarh, Panjab: Voices For Freedom (VFF) filed a public interest litigation (PIL)yesterday asking the Punjab and Haryana High Court for directions to quash the appointment of Panjab Director General of Police (DGP) Sumedh Saini on grounds that his appointment was unlawful. The High Court has adjourned the hearing to April 17thfor VFF [...]
Chandigarh, Panjab: How long will Parkash Singh Badal, the recently re-elected Chief Minister of Panjab, keep his eyes closed and lips locked on the plight of the Sikh community in the state of Panjab? Years after years are going by but the autumn-stern destiny of the Sikh community is not finding the blow of wind [...]
May 13, 2011: USCIRF (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom) has placed India on its watch list in its annual report 2011. Watch listed countries are under close monitoring due to the nature and extent of religious freedom violations engaged in or tolerated by their governments. USCIRF is an independent commission of United States and [...]
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