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Archive for April, 2010

|Press Release| Government intereference in SHRC and Backward Classes Commission

Friday, 30 April 2010 Press statement Condemning the state government and BJP’s interference in the independent functioning of State Human Rights Commission and Backward Classes Commission The large number of incidences of abuse & exploitation of children, women, dalits, disabled, minorities, farmers & other vulnerable sections are increasing. The dislocation & displacement of these sections ...

PUCL petition on hazardous working conditions of Sanitary Workers

04.20.2010 · Posted in Report, Urban Poverty

In response to the PUCL petition on the hazardous working conditions of Pourakarmikas and Sanitary workers: The High Court of Karnataka has constituted a 10 member committee headed by the Member Secretary of the Legal Services Authority. According to the court’s order, the committee will submit it’s report within four weeks of receipt of the ...