http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal Gas Tragedy is the world's worst ever industrial catastrophe and occurred on the night of December 2-3, 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. At that time, UCIL was the Indian subsidiary of the U.S. company Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), which is now a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company. Around midnight on December 2–3, 1984, there was a leak of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other toxins from the plant, resulting in the exposure of over 500,000 people. Estimates vary on the death toll. The official immediate death toll was 2,259 and the government of Madhya Pradesh has confirmed a total of 3,787 deaths related to the gas release.[1] Other government agencies estimate 15,000 deaths.[2] Others estimate that 8,000 died within the first weeks and that another 8,000 have since died from gas-related diseases.[3][4]

Some 25 years after the gas leak, 390 tons of toxic chemicals abandoned at the UCIL plant continue to leak and pollute the groundwater in the region and affect thousands of Bhopal residents who depend on it,[5][6][7] though there is some dispute as to whether the chemicals still stored at the site pose any continuing health hazard.[2]

Over two decades since the tragedy, certain civil and criminal cases remain pending in the United States District Court, Manhattan and the District Court of Bhopal, India, against Union Carbide, (now owned by Dow Chemical Company), with an Indian arrest warrant also pending against Warren Anderson, CEO of Union Carbide at the time of the disaster.[8][9] Greenpeace asserts that as the Union Carbide CEO, Anderson knew about a 1982 safety audit of the Bhopal plant, which identified 30 major hazards and that they were not fixed in Bhopal but were fixed at the company's identical plant in the US. In June 2010, seven ex-employees, including the former chairman of UCIL, were convicted in Bhopal of causing death by negligence and sentenced to two years imprisonment and a fine of about $2,000 each, the maximum punishment allowed by law. An eighth former employee was also convicted but had died before judgment was passed.[10]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/journalismcompetition/killing-india-poor-with-impunity Killing India's Poor With Impunity

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Killing India's Poor With Impunity

"You can beat me with 10 lathis (sticks) or I can give you 10,000 rupees but please don't involve me in fake cases," begged Pahallu Musahar to the police as he burst into tears.

The police from one of the stations in Uttar Pradesh had come to Pahallu's house to enquire about his absconding brother Umesh. Umesh was allegedly involved in criminal activities, but unable to find him, the police decided to target his family for information. They were unrelenting in their brutality.

The police ignored Pahallu's pleas that the family had lost touch with Umesh. Instead, Pahallu was beaten, tortured and then thrown into prison for a month and seven days. He now faces charges in two fake cases – one for possessing drugs and another for making cartridges for guns.

During the last decade when India's status as an emerging power and a vibrant democracy have been heralded around the world, the poor in India have experienced a much greater degree of police violence and a serious erosion of their civil and political rights.

For the poor in India, Pahallu's story is all too commonplace - the midnight knock, the brutality at the police station, the long, Kafkaesque slog in a court of law or increasingly now, simply a gun-shot. Pahallu could have ended up in an "encounter" with the police, a sinister euphemism in India for extra-judicial killings.

Since the year 2000, across India, from Kashmir in the north to Tamil Nadu in the south there has been a 41.66% rise in the number of custodial killings according to statistics released by the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) in New Delhi.

"It is the aam aadmi (common man) who are (sic) the majority victims of torture and other inhuman and degrading treatment. However, the UPA government has failed to address the issue of torture and other human rights violations," said Suhas Chakma, Director, ACHR.

The statistics on poverty in India vary, but the figure hovers anywhere between 26% – 42% of a population of 1.1bn. For a majority of these people Indian democracy offers no freedom and the Indian constitution offers no equality. Already experiencing the structural violence of caste prejudice, poverty, illiteracy and malnutrition, the police compound their misery by offering little or no access to justice.

The spread of the Naxal insurgency through district after district in rural India is a testimony to the failure of state institutions and the police in particular.

A report submitted by an Expert Group to the Planning Commission of India, titled 'Development Challenges in Extremist Affected Areas' discusses how current police practices have made the Naxal movement attractive for people in rural areas. "The movement does provide protection to the weak against the powerful" something the police have failed hopelessly to do. The report adds that the weaker sections of society, "have no faith that justice will be done to them against the powerful."

Yet there is a deafening silence from the middle class about such police brutality against the poor. "There is so much crime that the middle class conscience also approves of such "encounters". What do you do?" asks Sudha Ramalingam, National Vice-President of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL).

In militarised states like Kashmir and Manipur the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) has given the military sweeping powers to kill people with complete impunity. But even in states like Tamil Nadu which have a relatively better law and order situation, police behaviour has become more and more brazen. Henry Tiphagne, Executive Director of NGO People's Watch, in an affidavit filed before the Madras High Court, says, "Most of those killed in "encounters" are persons with a history of criminal involvement who were not convicted. Police thus act as vigilantes, bypassing the criminal justice system and Courts of law, to exact their brand of justice."

"I thought the police would kill me in an encounter," Pahallu Musahar later told the People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR). He and his family live like pariahs in their community today because people look at them suspiciously, but just being alive has been a fate more fortunate than that of many others.

http://pvchr.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-ghasia-tribal-has-full-faith-This Ghasia tribal has full faith in Rahul - Varanasi - City - The Times of India

This Ghasia tribal has full faith in Rahul - Varanasi - City - The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Varanasi/This-Ghasia-tribal-has-full-faith-in-Rahul/articleshow/6033929.cms


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This Ghasia tribal has full faith in Rahul

http://pvchr.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-ghasia-tribal-has-full-faith-in.html

This Ghasia tribal has full faith in Rahul - Varanasi - City - The Times of India

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This Ghasia tribal has full faith in Rahul - Varanasi - City - The Times of India
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This Ghasia tribal has full faith in Rahul


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92 Malnutrition children of weaver in Kashi Vidyapeeth block of Varanasi in india

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Dear janab Rahul gandhi ji,
Greetings from PVCHR.

PVCHR associate Mr. Virendra Yadav , political and human rights activist,who recieved a list of 92 children of malnutrition of grade third and fourth grade.He started

Please see the list of 92 malnourished children identified by ICDS worker: http://www.scribd.com/doc/32698758/92-Malnutrition-children-of-weaver-in-Kashi-Vidyapeeth-block-of-Varanasi-in-india


Please see the URL to see the statment of CDPO Mrs. Kusum Tara Rai http://www.youtube.com/pvchrindia#p/u/8/lqnGvbC0mUM

Earlier to this PVCHR has raised the issue of weaver and continously highlight the hunger and malnutrition amongs weavers children in same area but still the condition is not improving, The condition of weaver area become Somalia and Kalahandhi. Please take immediate action to stop the further malnutrition and hunger, to built a healthly future of India.

Please see the given below URL for more information. http://www.foodjustice.net/ahrc-archive/statements/2009-hunger-alerts/update-india-call-for-more-attention-on-handloom-weaver-community-where-five-children-died-of-malnutrition-in-varanasi


http://www.nchro.org/public_html/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7074:varanasi-weavers-facing-starvation-death&catid=9:minorities&Itemid=19


http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/26698/Children+of+a+lesser+God.html

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/19809/WEB%20EXCLUSIVE/The+land+of+dying+kids.html

http://www.youtube.com/user/rkodkan#p/a/u/1/TuNkrQ_26Bw

With kind regards,


Dr. Lenin
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http://www.greenpeace.org/india/environment-day-inspiring-action

Happy world environment day! Years of neglecting our most precious resource have caused damage all around the world, and it will only get worse if the exploitation continues.

Every step taken to protect our environment is an investment in a better future. The environment can be saved if more and more of us take action to save it.

Check out the video and then join the movement:

A dalit young man death in firing by a police constable in Uttar Pradesh-PVCHR

http://www.scribd.com/doc/32566793/A-dalit-young-man-death-in-firing-by-a-police-constable-in-Uttar-Pradesh

Rupees five lakh monetary relief in a case of death in firing by a police constable in Uttar Pradesh, National Human Rights Commission(NHRC), New Delhi- India recommended payment of Rupees to next of his kin and also asked the Government of Uttar Pradesh to inform whether the families of the slain police personnel and the injured have been paid ex-gratia or not. Chief Secretary, Govt. of U.P.shall submit the complianse report with proof of payment witin six month.(Case No. 20712/24/2005-2006) But process of providing compensation in pipeline said Govt. of U.P., Today survivior family faced discrimination in Government social welfare schemes in Tanda Tahsil, Ambedkar Nagar district of U.P., His father aged 65 worked like 35 years old daily wage labour for to fetch the appetite of family members and marriage ceromony of daughter.