Violence - Different Truths

September 6, 2016
Urooj Murtaza
Advocacy, Crime, Law & Order, Mass Comm.

Hope for Street Children and Other News in Pakistan this Week

It’s often asked jocularly, ‘Good news or bad news, which do you want first?’ The traditional reply is ‘good news’. This week Urooj scans through the major news in Pakistan...

August 27, 2016
Amit Singh
Gender, Law & Order

Rape: How to Prevent and Find Solution to this Menace?

Ninety three women are raped in India every day according to the National Crime Records Bureau data. Rape strips the woman and her family of dignity. It’s an unending torture....

August 18, 2016
Lenin Raghuvanshi
Advocacy

One Humanity: The Theme for the World Humanitarian Day 2016

The first World Humanitarian Summit, held on May 23 and 24, 2016, in Istanbul, convened 9,000 participants from 173 member-states, including 55 Heads of the states and governments, hundreds of private...

July 18, 2016
Sukanya Juno Biswas
Human Rights, Opinion

Baton Rouge Violence Escalates: How Many More Deaths will end the Savagery!

We have developed a fear culture. Here is a community that faces mass incarceration, violence and general mistrust for the police. And, on the other side, we have the men...

July 10, 2016
Amit Singh
Cover Story, Dissent, Legal Issues

Is India Protecting Religious Sensitivity at the Cost of Freedom of Expression?

Tension between freedom of expression and religious intolerance is manifesting globally-particularly in multicultural Indian society, where censoring books and films by the state and further victimisation of writers, film director,...

July 4, 2016
Amit Singh
Opinion, Politics, Religion, Terrorism

Is Violence Inherent in Religion?:Need for Open Discussion

Disconnecting roots of violence from religion would be disregarding the historical facts. Violence is deeply rooted in almost all religions. Some religion propagate violence openly, some are discreet. Following...

July 2, 2016
Rhiti Chatterjee Bose
Conflict Resolution, Cover Story, Crime, Gender

Is our Silence Perpetrating the Rape Culture?

We live in insensitive times. Trying to be smart, we often land up being rude. The Now Gen, uses cuss words at the blink of an eye. The F-word has...

June 30, 2016
Arindam Roy
Announcement, Human Rights, Legal Issues

Special Issue of Different Truths on Human Rights and Legal Issues

We inched to the 500 plus posts, working diligently, in rain or shine. It has been an amazing story of what people can do. It’s about their aspirations and...

June 8, 2016
Lenin Raghuvanshi
Human Rights, Law & Order, Subaltern & Dalits

207 Rescued from Bonded Labour at Hardoi Brick Kiln

Activists from JVI and PVCHR, with the active assistance of state government officials, rescued 207 bonded labours, belonging to 47 families, from a Hardoi brick kiln, last week (May 23). Here’s...

June 3, 2016
Different Truths News Service
Crime, Law & Order

Violent Mathura Clashes: 24 dead, including SP City and SHO

A splinter group of Jai Gurudeo, headed by Ramvriksh Yadav and his followers, illegally encroached upon 270 acres of land in Jawahar Bagh, Mathura, two years back, on the...

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