Category: Human Rights and Legal Issues

On Religious Freedoms and Secularism – Part II

Dear All: I am opening this second thread to continue the discussion over from On Religious Freedoms and Secularism. I am reproducing the last few comments to maintain continuity in the discussion. I believe...

On Religious Freedoms and Secularism

This post has been pending for a while. A few months ago, the Freedom Team of India (of which I am a member) released its draft policy on Religious Freedom and Tolerance for public...

Human Rights for Police – A welcome move

A few weeks ago, in June ’09, the Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission passed an order with far-reaching consequences that (unfortunately) went largely unnoticed. In response to a petition filed by Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini’s...

Silence of the Lambs*

Stumbled on this last week… Excerpts from Why this silence on organised anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh? by Dr. Richard Benkin (July 23, ’09): Reports began trickling out of Bangladesh this spring about an anti-Hindu...