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Barak Human Rights Protection Committee (BHRPC) is a human rights organisation of the nature as contemplated under section 12(i) of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 and registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 vide No. RS/CA/243/B/61 of 2002-03 dated 1st October 2002.
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Reports on hunger deaths in Assam
Residents of a tea garden in India are dying reportedly of hunger. Barak Human Rights Protection Committee (BHRPC) has so far learnt about 15 recent deaths, prima facie, caused by starvation, malnutrition and lack of proper medical care in the Bhuvan Valley Tea Estate, a tea garden owned by a private company based in Kolkata, in the district of Cachar in North-East Indian state of Assam. (Read more here, or read the first report, update i, update ii, update iii, update iv, update v, update vi, update vii, update viii.) (Please Sign petition here supporting campaign to save the labourers.)
‘Assam police yet to achieve its legitimacy and lawfulness’, reports police body
Will policing in Assam ever have a ‘‘humane face’’ in the real sense of the terms? When will the police really begin to behave as a service in a democracy, and not as a brutal, colonial-type force as it acts in many cases? When will ordinary citizens really feel they are being served by the police? These are inconvenient questions, but the police in a democracy must face them and evolve as a people-friendly force. (The Sentinel published a report on 22 April 2012 on the findings and recommendations of the 2010 annual report of the Assam State Police Accountability Commission, which is re-posted here.)
Forest dwellers deprived of their livelihood and facing forcible eviction due to land-grab in Assam
Around 300 families of traditional forest dwellers in and around Patharia forest reserve in Karimganj district of the North Eastern state of Assam have forcibly been deprived of their sources of livelihood and now living under severe threat of imminent eviction from their dwelling houses by some businessmen who reportedly grabbed lands measuring approximately 130 hectares (330 acres) reportedly for rubber plantation in a village where the families of the forest dwellers have been living for generations depending on the forest produces for livelihood. The forest dwellers were asked to leave the areas soon and threatened with murders, rape and jail. (Read more and view photos) (Read update 1)
AFSPA: A blotch on democracy in India
The Asian Human Rights Commission, REDRESS Trust UK, and Human Rights Alert, Manipur, India jointly authored and published a report on the Armed Forces (Special Power) Act, 1958 titled: The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 in Manipur and other States of the Northeast of India: Sanctioning repression in violation of India’s human rights obligations on 18 August, 2011. (Read more)
Submission of BHRPC to the UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions
The few representative cases submitted here clearly show the abysmal state of lawlessness which people live in. Life here is virtually “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” (as was claimed by Thomas Hobbes in his The Leviathan) for some people, particularly those who belong to the vulnerable groups such as minority communities, working class. (Read the full submission or read the press release)
Submission of BHRPC to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of HRDs in Barak Valley (Read more)
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