On 14th July 2022, Supreme Court dismissed a writ petition filed by Himanshu Kumar and twelve other people in a 2009 case that sought an independent investigation in the extra-judicial killings of adivasis in the villages of (then Dantewada) now Sukma district of Chhattisgarh. This came to be known as the Gompad massacre, and it includes two major incidents of violence in September and October 2009 that happened in the villages of Gompad and Gachchanpalli along with 2-3 smaller incidents nearby, in which at least 17 adivasis were killed.
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India: Statement of the Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan on the recent Supreme Court judgment in the case of the Gompad Massacre of 2009
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Sri Lanka: Declaration of the State of Emergency Statements by Bar Association of Sri Lanka & Centre for Policy Alternatives - July 18, 2022
19 July 2022. . . State of Emergency has been declared by the Acting President with effect from 18th July 2022, the third time since April 1" 2022 that the country has been placed under the same.
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India: Gandhi in Champaran - Testimonies of the indigo peasants played a pivotal role in making the Mahatma | Shahid Amin (Open Magazine, April 2022)
17 July 2022IT IS DIFFICULT TO capture the voices of peasants from our colonial and pre-colonial pasts, for peasants of those times didn
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India: Full List of Unparliamentary Expressions 2021 | Lok Sabha Secretariat
15 July 2022From time to time, some words and expressions are declared unparliamentary by the Chair in different Legislative bodies in India. Such words and expressions and also those declared unparliamentary in Commonwealth Parliaments are compiled by the Lok Sabha Secretariat for ready reference in the future.
The present compilation contains references to words and expressions declared unparliamentary in Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and State Legislatures in India during the year 2021. -
India: Campaign demanding pending wages of NREGA workers | Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samiti (PBKMS), Press Release, july 15 2022
15 July 2022The disastrous condition of the most marginal rural workers who work in the 100 days work programme (MGNREGA) is now a burning issue in West Bengal. For more than six months, the workers are not getting their wages under MGNREGA. Both the central and state government do not seem interested in a solution. They are rather engaged in a war of words and in the exchange of innumerable letters. The Government of India has accused the State Government of corruption. The state government asserts they are being discriminated against for political reasons despite taking corrective action like filing cases against corrupt officials and giving all required information.
