Tag: right to life
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The Bhopal Disaster: A Failure of Duty and Rights
Bhopal: During the 1970s and in the early 1980s, many of us were passionate about environmental issues which were inspired by the Narmada, Chipko, Silent Valley and other movements. However, during the same period, a series of accidents and untoward events that unfolded inside the Union Carbide Plant failed to cause concern among the residents…
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26 killed, either of starvation or being lynched, but Jharkhand’s government did little to protect Right to Life
Ranchi/Delhi: In last two years at least 26 people have died in Jharkhand, 13 because of starvation and 13 by getting lynched. But Raghubar Das’s government had done little to protect the Right to Life of its citizen, alleged the members of Right to Food’s Jharkhand chapter, as they protested before Jharkhand Bhavan in New…
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Citizens raise concern on continued attacks on right to life in Jharkhand
Ranchi: Recent starvation deaths, communal lynching and violence, attempts by government to forcefully acquire land and repression of voices of dissent in Jharkhand, made at least 52 people, comprising academics, activists, representatives of people’s organisations and other concerned citizens express their concern on the situation. In a joint statement that they released, they included all the…