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[June 7, 2023] Cities across India are getting dressed-up to host G20 events, for which the poor have been removed from sight, their dwellings demolished, and their livelihoods hit

We are people’s organizations and common people from various states of India. Madam, we write because we have come to understand that the State of Uttarakhand

We the undersigned women and human rights organisations condemn the way the Delhi Police, Home Minister Amit Shah and the BJP led Central Government at the highest level have managed to subvert the law, by keeping the erstwhile president of the Wrestling Federation of India, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh out of police custody, despite being an accused of sexual harassment by women wrestlers, including a minor.

The work of maintenance of many stretches of railway tracks is among the departments being outsourced/ privatized by Central Government. The work force in such type of important departments which involves the safety of passengers and the safety of the railway system itself, is being reduced in the name of cost cutting after sourcing the employment through Outsourcing or Contractors

"In 2011 a woman was raped every 20 minutes in India, according to government data. The pace quickened to about every 16 minutes by 2021...But those grotesque numbers tell only part of the story: 77 % of women who have experienced physical or sexual violence never tell anyone..."