The Jawabdehi Yatra is a peaceful caravan of people committed to bringing about transparency and accountability. It attempts to raise awareness and uses methods of community monitoring including public hearings and the filing of grievances to promote better delivery of public services and entitlements. On 16 January 2016 the Jawabdehi Yatra was violently attacked by a mob let by a BJP MLA Kanwarlal Meena in Aklera, Jhalawar, Rajasthan. There has been widespread condemnation of the attack on Jawabdehi Yatra but the key figures behind this attack remain at large.
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India - Protect the Right to Dissent: Statement by Prominent Citizens Regarding Assault on Social Movement Activists Campaigning on Transparency and Accountability in Rajasthan
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India: A test of dignity and democracy
by , 2 February 2016Today, as the Supreme Court hears the curative petition on Section 377, it has an opportunity to remember its promise to be the last resort of the oppressed, to let dignity be the domain of all.
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India: When AMU Killed A Gay Professor | Mohd Asim
1 February 2016Early in April 2010, the suicide of a gay professor at AMU made national headlines. Some hurried calls to Aligarh informed me that it was the same professor who I had seen walking in and out of the Modern Languages Department everyday for two years.
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Pakistan: How did we become a society that calls Mumtaz Qadri a hero and Malala Yousafzai a villain? Just how? | Farah Zia
1 February 2016The biggest challenge in fighting this war against terrorism and extremism comes from within the society itself. The society is radicalised beyond belief and no action plan is taking this into account.
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India: Photos from the People’s March in Defence of the Republic (New Delhi 30 Jan 2016)
30 January 2016The citizen’s march of 30 Jan 2016 in New Delhi attracted over 2000 people from different organisations and citizens campaigns.
