From: ANHAD DELHI <anhad.delhi@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:47 PM
Subject: Media Invite to cover conference on Human Rights Defenders
National Consultation on Human Rights Defenders
19-20 November 2011
India Islamic Center, Lodi Road
New Delhi
To
The Bureau Chief
_______________
New Delhi
The Human Rights Law Network and the World Sikh Organization (WSO) in collaboration with ACHR, AISA, ANHAD, APDP, Human Rights Defenders Alert, IRDS, Lawyers for Human Rights International, MASUM, Naga Mothers Association, Parivartan, PEACE, PVCHR and Surajay Sangharsha Samiti will be facilitating a National Consultation on Human Rights Defenders on 19th and 20th of November, 2011 at the India Islamic Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi. It would be attended by Binayak Sen, Kavita Srivastav, Himanshu Kumar, Henry Tiphagne, Iftikhar Gilani, Prashant Bhushan, Teesta Setalvad, Mallika Sarabai, Sanjiv Bhatt and many other human rights defenders.
Human rights activists have come under repeated attacks recently. Right to Information activists have been killed and many have had cases filed against them. Journalists have been jailed in criminal defamation cases, have been attacked, some of them killed, and media houses have had their offices ransacked. Tribal activists particularly in conflict areas have been hounded by the police and many of them are in jail today. The situation has never been so dire. The need of the hour is to protect and defend human rights activists in India today.
There have been many initiatives in the country on defending the defenders and several organizations have developed expertise in various areas such as documentation, action alerts, approaching the UN system, legal aid, medical aid, counseling and so on. These initiatives have developed as a response to the cry from the grassroot activists who have been hounded by the police in many states.
It is hoped that this consultation will give many of the participants, including the families of the activists who have been killed or victimized, a chance to interact and to develop better strategies to deal with the increasing use of violence by the state against social activists.
Please depute your reporter/photographer to cover the program. The program schedule is attached along with the invite.
Mathew Jacob
Human Rights Law Network
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Svetlana Correya
Human Rights Law Network
9953819074
ANHAD
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