Democracy Under Threat What does it take to create just societies in 2021: a Talk organized by Catalyst 2030

#innovation #sustainability #climatechange #cybersecurity #democracy Very interesting talk . Lenin Raghuvanshi is also in talk.

https://lnkd.in/gPFZGN4

Democracy Under Threat What does it take to create just societies in 2021: a Talk organized by Catalyst 2030

1. Eva Marszewski (Peacebuilders International), 2. Glenn Martin (BLM), 3. Lenin Raghuvanshi (PVCHR), 4. Karen Tse (International Bridges to Justice)

डॉ. लेनिन रघुवंशी: दलितों और दबे-कुचलों की भलाई में जीवन समर्पित | Kya B...

SHRUTI NAGVANSHI - Public Peace Prize

https://publicpeaceprize.org/shruti-nagvanshi/

सरसिज शेखर नारायण के तीखे सवाल लेनिन रघुवंशी से

Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi ON: The Caste System in India: Slavery in Modern Times.

COVID-19, Migrant Labourers crisis, Livelihood, Dignity & Human Values

PVCHR and Lenin Raghuvanshi: Part 2

PVCHR and Lenin Raghuvanshi: Part1

Solutions against extremism through pluralism, Lenin Raghuvanshi

Lenin Raghuvanshi is speaking in the second Global Tolerance Forum 2015 "Solutions
against extremism through pluralism".Please listen speech in follows
link:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5nj9ATD3cE

Crisis of democracy and the Caste System in India http://www.pvchr.net/2014/09/crisis-of-democracy-and-caste-system-in_23.html

‘Banaras Convention’ for a comprehensive, medley, plural and inclusive culture: 

http://www.pvchr.net/2014/07/banaras-convention-for-comprehensive.html

http://www.pvchr.net/2014/08/recommendation-of-banaras-convention.html

It
is noted that in this program along with me Ms. Helle Merete Brix​, a
journalist, author and lecturer, Mr. Kjell Magne Bondevik, a president
of the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights and Ex- Prime Minister of
Norway, Mr. Suleman Nagdi​, Loretta Napoleoni, an Italian journalist and
political analyst, Haras Rafiq, Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi​, Tino
Sanandaji, a Kurdish economist, Iyad El-Baghdadi, a writer, human rights
activist and Maryam Faghihimani were the key speakers.

Please read follows links:

http://universaltolerance.org/component/k2/item/1338-global-tolerance-forum-17-september-2015-drammen-norway

#drammen #tolerance #varanasi #kashi #modi #RG #india #pluralism 

https://www.saddahaq.com/an-innovative-global-forum-on-tolerance

Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi on APN TV

Satyamev Jayate - Season 3 | Episode 6 | When Masculinity Harms Men

When Masculinity Harms Men

95% of incidents of violence in India are committed by men. The final episode of Season 3 examines why this is the case and how deeply-entrenched notions of masculinity affect attitudes towards women. The episode also helps explain the larger violence we witness in society, be it in incidents of road rage, ragging or acid attacks. It explores how fixed notions of masculinity are shaped and how they victimize not only those at the receiving end, but men themselves as well.

http://www.satyamevjayate.in/when-masculinity-harms-men/episode-6watchvideo.aspx?uid=s3e6-ev-v1&lang=english

On youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRKmyzen0Vw 

Guest profile:

Dr Lenin Raghuvanshi grew up in Uttar Pradesh where he saw unequal relationships between men and women, with the men being stronger, violent and controlling of the women. He chose a different path for himself and went on to become one of the founding members of People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights, a Varanasi-based NGO which works for the upliftment of the marginalized sections of the society. He is also a Dalit rights activist.

Email: lenin@pvchr.asia | Website: www.pvchr.asia

http://www.satyamevjayate.in/when-masculinity-harms-men/whhm-guest-profiles.aspx

How masculinity ends up crippling men, depriving them of expressing normal human emotions like love, pain and vulnerability is the focus of this segment. Five men originally from the U.P.-Haryana regions talk about how they were taught by their own families to suppress their instincts and conform to a certain stereotype of being male and how this manifested in their behaviour.

http://www.satyamevjayate.in/when-masculinity-harms-men/episode-6watchvideo.aspx?uid=s3e6-ev-v3&lang=english

REX CONCLiVE 2013-14, Dr Lenin Raghuvanshi

BANARAS CONVENTION {PART - 2}

"To get in touch with the many problems, still existing in Indian society, this Brochure should be a Symbol to “feel” and don’t forget, what’s still worth to fighting for – the beauty and variety of India and its people. Don’t leave them behind!" – Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi, CEO PVCHR

BANARAS CONVENTION {PART - 1}

"To get in touch with the many problems, still existing in Indian society, this Brochure should be a Symbol to “feel” and don’t forget, what’s still worth to fighting for – the beauty and variety of India and its people. Don’t leave them behind!" – Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi, CEO PVCHR

The need of the hour is to create new dynamics and debate within India: Lenin Raghuvanshi

We had a strong Dalit movement before formation of RSS in 1925. We have saints like Kabeer, Raidas who were an epitome of our syncretic, plural and tolerant Indian culture. Hindutva has nothing to do with Hindu religion per se. The Hindutva ideology was a manifestation of British colonialism. The greatest ideologue of RSS Guru Golwalkar himself advised RSS cadres not to fight against the British occupation. They have an expansionist ideology. On one hand they are exploiting the dalits and on the other they are attacking other nationalities. They are even unhappy with me as I am fighting against casteism that forms a fundamental feature of their ideology. But the unfortunate part of the whole matter is that now major political parties are influenced by Hindutva ideology. http://thekashmirscenario.com/prominent-activist-co-founder-peoples-vigilance-committee-human-rights-pvchr-lenin-raghuvanshi-conversation-mushtaq-ul-haq-ahmad-sikander-early-life-influences-work-h/

Prominent Activist and Co-Founder Peoples Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), Lenin Raghuvanshi in a conversation with Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander, about his early life, influences, work, Hindutva and future plans

Tell us something about yourself?

I was born in plural family. Each member was different from another, yet they lived under one roof. My Grandfather was Gandhian, but there was contrast in him as he was a socialist and atheist too. My grandmother was religious. My father initially joined RSS, but Grandmother told him that the uniform black cap of RSS is anti-Hindu. Then my dad became a communist, but he is still religious. There was always an ideological tussle going on between my grandparents and parents. My Grandfather wanted me to be a Gandhian and my Father wanted me to become a communist. Hence this tussle gave me an exposure to varied shades of opinion since my childhood. Later on I self studied various philosophies, ideologies and religions, and five great people influenced my life and thoughts particularly and they include Prophet Jesus (pbuh), Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), Karl Marx, Buddha and Dr.B.R Ambedkar. I grew up in the Eastern part of Uttar Pradesh (U.P) that has nationalist links with mainstream India. Though in certain parts of U.P, RSS and Congress type mentality also prevails. But I envisage that we create different nations within India, as India has the potential for tolerating many sub Nations.

What is your educational background?

I studied Indian Medicine system at a Gurukul Kangri in Haridwar.

Keeping in view your professional education background, how were you inclined towards activism?

As I stated earlier that my father wanted me to become a full time Communist Party worker, but I wasn’t inclined to it whole heartedly. In 1989, I joined United Nations Youth Organization and started my activism with that. In 1993 I came to head its U.P chapter. In the same year we started Bachpan Bachao Aandulan (Movement for saving childhood). During that movement, I witnessed that there were no child laborers from upper caste people. Meanwhile I also got married in 1992, and my spouse also helped me in my activism and believed in my work.

So when and what reasons led to the establishment of Peoples Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR)?

In 1996, I along with my wife Shruti founded the PVCHR. It is a community based organization, to break the closed, feudal hierarchies of conservative slums and villages by building up local institutions and supporting them with a high profile and active human rights network.  The caste based violence, exploitation of poorer sections of the society and the marginalization of Dalits and Adivasis led to the establishment of PVCHR.

What kind of activities does PVCHR engage with?

We work against the Caste system and the structural prejudice associated with it. We work for the reconciliation among communities. We are also working for making the environment conducive for Truth and Reconciliation. We are initiating a discussion about democracy and human rights in the cow belt. Presently we have more than fifty thousand members and in more than four hundred villages we are carrying out our activities.

So did your efforts help in bringing any Positive change?

Yes, there is a lot of change in more than two hundred villages. Since 2000 there has been no communal violence in Banaras, heart of the cow belt. Many religious leaders have united against Hindutva Fascism. The Mushar community has become confident and an indigenous leadership has evolved among them. 2/3rd Dalits, Muslims and OBCs are elected members in Governing Board of PVCHR from 2010.

Do you face any threats or intimidation regarding your work?

Yes the threats and intimidation tactics are very common, both by State and Non State actors.

Is PVCHRs particular focus presently on torture victims?

Yes, we are strongly focusing on the victims of torture. Since 2008 we are using Testimonial Therapy developed by PVCHR and Danish Organization Research and Rehabilitation center for Torture Victims (RCT) for the survivors of torture, in order to make them overcome the aftermath trauma associated with torture. Our testimonial Therapy model are using by partners of RCT in Srilanka, Cambodia and Philippines.

You have been talking and writing about what you call as the “Culture of Impunity” as prevalent in India. What does this Culture of Impunity mean?

Peace without Justice and suffering in silence is culture of impunity. Our constitution is modern but the rules are colonial. The Police Act 1861, can be a reference point. It was implemented by the British in India after the 1857 mutiny. It was anti India in its connotations and stature, but still there has been no change in it despite the fact that British left India in 1947.

So how to Fight and Resist against this culture of impunity?

The culture of impunity breaks humans. During the freedom struggle Muslims were fighting alongside with other communities, but where are they now? This culture of impunity has wrecked much harm and is responsible for numerous atrocities against minorities, dalits and adivasis. It helps the guilty, culprits and perpetuators of these atrocities go scot free. We still have draconian laws like Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) imposed on various parts of India, where the security forces have committed grave human rights abuses because of this blanket culture of impunity. We must educate, organize and agitate against this culture of impunity. We must be able to provide Psycho-Social support to the victims. Then there is a need to create debate about this culture of impunity. For Justice to be established we need to tell the truth and put up the facts before the people.

What is your opinion about the Hindutva fascism and their suppression of minorities?

We had a strong Dalit movement before formation of RSS in 1925. We have saints like Kabeer, Raidas who were an epitome of our syncretic, plural and tolerant Indian culture. Hindutva has nothing to do with Hindu religion per se. The Hindutva ideology was a manifestation of British colonialism. The greatest ideologue of RSS Guru Golwalkar himself advised RSS cadres not to fight against the British occupation. They have an expansionist ideology. On one hand they are exploiting the dalits and on the other they are attacking other nationalities. They are even unhappy with me as I am fighting against casteism that forms a fundamental feature of their ideology. But the unfortunate part of the whole matter is that now major political parties are influenced by Hindutva ideology.

You have also been writing that caste based structural biases and violence is embedded in our system. How do you explain the same?

During childhood days my grandma used to tell me, not to eat while facing south, neither sleep keeping your legs in the direction. Elderly in the village said not to visit southern quarter of the village. Since childhood I used to wonder what the secret of this word ‘Dakhkhin Tola’ (south ghetto) is.

As I grew up, started reading, started social activism, fought for the rights of bonded labours and traveled across the globe then I realized that in the south of every village there is South Africa (a Dalit quarter ) as ‘culture of silence’.

The silence imposed by draconian suppression sanctified by religious rituals of the Upper Caste was such that the outside world knew little about this colossal cruelty. Justice V.R.Krishna Iyer, former Judge, Supreme Court of India described the plight of the Dalits in the following words, “Courts to them are alien, laws their enemy and human justice their despair.”

The caste system continues to determine political, social, and economic lives of a billion people in South Asia. The caste system, straddling across the scrawny shoulders of the Untouchables, is like that Old man in Tolstoy’s story, who has all the sympathy for the poor bearer and would like to do anything but to get off his shoulder. The most significant aspect of caste is its ability to resurface without a trace of remorse on the part of the perpetrator. It is like that chemical addiction which once had makes you vulnerable to its guiles forever.

American modern conservative thinker Edmund Burke says correctly about India many years before, “In that Country the law of religion, the laws of the land, and the law of honour, are all united and consolidated in one, and bind a man eternally to the rule of what is called his caste.”

Traditional political system and  Hindu fascist forces are trying hard to maintain the old system of the power game. Money and muscle power, together with political string-pulling, often result in denial of justice for the hapless ‘have-nots’, especially the Dalits (untouchables), ravaged by poverty and illiteracy.

Atrocities and extortion on the Dalits, fake encounters, refusal to register complaints against the well-heeled, arbitrary arrests on false charges, illegal detention and custodial deaths are in commonplace.

In the absence of a modern social audit system, the keepers of the law often unleash a ‘police raj’, especially in rural India. A crippled National Human Rights Commission and its state subsidiaries with limited recommendatory control and a dysfunctional Legal Aid System depict a gloomy picture indeed.

Ironically, even after having shed the colonial yoke, its legacy continues in the administrative framework of our independent India marked with widespread corruption which has rendered many government-sponsored schemes in rural India a failure.

You have also written that Indian police has learnt the tactic of Community Punishment from caste system. How can these two be related?

You can witness this fact in India. If an upper caste person commits a crime, if ever he is punished, he will bear it solitarily. But if a lower caste person commits any crime the whole community will be punished for one man’s deeds. The Police have learnt community punishment from casteism. Also see how the Caste and Class structures are reinforced by the state machinery. Why are the regiments named on caste and class denominations like Rajputana, Dogra etc, whereas such amalgamations are contradictory to the constitution?

The Police atrocities against common people particularly the marginalized sections of society are growing with each passing day. What are the reasons responsible for that?

Police is the prime executive for the protection of Human Rights of common people. But in India the mindset of Police as inculcated by 1861 Police Act is synonymous to the British period when the Police saw all Indians as enemies. Even after Freedom Indian police witnesses citizens as its enemies. Hence the police reforms are must. We also need representation of minorities and marginalized sections of society in the police in order to change its outlook, bias and perception about them.

In most cases where the Police is found guilty of committing atrocities against the innocent civilians, we witness that they usually go scot free, while the innocent continue to suffer?

The prevalent culture of impunity is responsible for the guilty policemen going scot free. In Crpc and AFSPA the police and army have got the legal impunity that makes their persecution or punishment impossible.  We want to amend and remove these draconian laws. Armed Forces Special Power ordnance was imposed by the British colonial administration to crush the Quit India Movement that started in 1942, but even after Freedom Indian State implemented more draconian law as Armed Forces Special Power Act(AFSPA). Indian State is still not ready to pass the Anti Torture Bill. How can in such an environment you hope for policemen to be punished. These black laws create problems for National integration. We need to fight the mindset that is obstructing the amendment or revocation of these draconian laws, under the veil of National interests and sovereignty.

The growing corporatization is having severe ramifications on Nation Building and integrity. How can we resist this onslaught?

We need to strength the Neo Dalit movement. Neo-dalit campaign is against politics of division, exploitation and hatred with an alternative of unity of broken masses on base of reconciliation, democracy, secularism and non violence. First unity is unity against caste system, a historical system of exclusion i.e. unity among the lower castes people that have been suppressed since centuries with the progressive anti-caste people born in upper caste. This will be first of its kind unity, which will not be against any person born in to upper caste communities neither against any religion. Second unity is unity among minorities and communities who suffered with communal fascism, those who believe in communal harmony and people with secular values against neo-fascism. Unity of all poor from all communities against the suffering with neo-liberal policy is the third kind of unity. Fighting against neoliberal policy is not against democratic capitalism for people. Since those broken with different kinds of suppression and exclusion means dalit therefore these three kinds of unities is base of impart the neo-dalit movement. These three need to join hands and unitedly fight against the menace of corporatization based on exclusion, anti-people and anti-environment norms. We are opposing the corporatization whereas attacking cultural imperialism too, and trying to build pressure on Government through people demand for more budget on social structure such as education, health etc . If we will not fight against corporatization, they will make the country and people slave to their corporate goals.

Given your busy activist schedule, how do you balance that with your personal family life and its demands?

My wife Shruti is also an activist, while our son Kabeer is an independent child. We still live together in a joint family and I visit my parents when I find time.

So what are the future plans of PVCHR?

We are going to work in Kashmir, not for political negotiations or for solving Kashmir issue. We want to meet the victims and survivors of torture. We want to ask for pardons for the atrocities committed by the Indian State, and start reconciliation with people of Kashmir. We also want to offer psychological support to the victims of torture through Testimonial Therapy.

Any message for people?

The people must believe in themselves. The need of the hour is to create new dynamics and debate within India. The people musty make alliances with Dalits, Anti-Hindutva Movement and other marginalized people. The debate about Kashmir must be initiated within Indian particularly the cow belt, and it is obligatory on Kashmiris to change the mindset of the inhabitants of cow belt as far as Kashmir and other issues are concerned.

Lenin Raghuvanshi can be reached at pvchr.india@gmail.com

Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander is Writer-Activist based in Srinagar, Kashmir and can be reached at sikandarmushtaq@gmail.com

Visit of a team in leadership of Fr Bernardo Cervellera.

Post by PVCHR.

...जब इटली से आए विदेशियों ने यहां लगाई दिलचस्प पंचायत!

..जब इटली से आए विदेशियों ने यहां लगाई दिलचस्प पंचायत!

वाराणसी. इटली से आए 32 लोगों की एक टीम ने पिंडरा ब्लाक के सराय गांव के मुसहर बस्ती में अपनी पंचायत लगाई। बेरोजगारी और अशिक्षा की वजह से इस बस्ती के लोग बंधुआ मजदूरी के चंगुल में दशकों से फंसे थे।

मानवाधिकार जन निगरानी समिति के अचूक प्रयासों की वजह से आज पूरा गांव इस दलदल से बाहर आ चुका है। इन ग्रामीणों के संघर्ष कि दिलचस्प कहानी को सुनने और जांबाज़ी को सलाम करने इटली से यह टीम यहां पहुंची। 

ग्रामीण राम दयाल ने बताया कि मानवाधिकार जननिगरानी ने 2004 में इस गांव में लोगों को एकजुट करना शुरू किया, जब यहां पर लोग बंधुआ मजदूरी करते थे। यहां इन लोगों के पास जीवन जीने के लिए कोई भी मूलभूत सुविधाए उपलब्ध नहीं थी। लोग दबंगों से बहुत डरे और सहमे रहते थे।

इसके बाद बस्ती में धीरे-धीर लोगों में जागरूकता बढ़ी और योजनाओं तक लोगों की पहुंच बढ़ी। महासचिव डॉ लेलिन ने बताया कि ये विदेशी उन दलितों मुसहर जाति के लोगों से प्रभावित हैं, जो कभी गुलाम हुआ करते थे। बंधुआ मजदूरी के गर्त में डूबे हुए थे। आज की इस बदली हुई तस्वीर को देखने ही इटली से इतने सारे लोग यहां आए हैं। 

क्या कहा इटली से आई टीम ने

फादर बरनैडो सर्वेलेरा ने बताया कि ग्रामीणों में गजब का आत्मविश्वास है। इन लोगों ने जीवन की दिशा और दशा दोनों को बदला है। इटली से आए अन सभी लोगों ने इनके संघर्ष की लड़ाई से बहुत कुछ सीखा है।

हम इसे इटली के लोगों को बताएंगे कि कैसे संसाधन विहीन समुदाय ने संघर्ष से अपने जीवन को खुशहाल बनाया है। फादर बरनैडो सर्वेलेरा ने कहा कि हर ईसाई और कैथोलिक उनके अहिंसात्मक संघर्षों के साथ है। 

आगे देखें इटली से आए इन लोगों ने कैसे जानी गांव वालों की दास्तां...

http://www.bhaskar.com/article/UP-VAR-father-bernardo-cervellera-team-panchayat-with-musahar-community-4489458-PHO.html

Fighting caste discrimination

http://www.informed-giving.org/story_details.php?id=Mjgz

Caste is one of India’s most enduring institutions and still retains its hold on Indian society. For those not fortunate to be born in the higher echelons of the caste hierarchy, life can be difficult indeed. Despite government efforts, caste discrimination is still rife, and low-caste Indians have to bear the brunt of poverty, illiteracy and violence. Lenin Raghuvanshi is in the forefront of the fight against caste discrimination, to ensure a just and equal society.

Raghuvanshi is the founder of the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), which fights for the rights of marginalized people in several North Indian states, especially in the area around Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.

Raghuvanshi was born in an upper caste family, which he describes as “feudal”. He got a bachelor’s degree in ayurveda, modern medicine and surgery from the State Ayurvedic College in Haridwar. But the social inequities that faced India made him take up the cause of bonded labourers. This is when he noticed that not a single bonded labourer came from the upper caste, and realised that the problem was essentially caste.

In 1996, Raghuvanshi founded PVCHR to fight the caste system. He works to ensure basic rights to vulnerable groups like children, women, Dalits, tribes and minorities. Raghuvanshi and his team works at the grassroots level in Varanasi and around 200 villages in Uttar Pradesh and five other states. PVCHR works to eliminate situations that give rise to the exploitation of vulnerable and marginalized groups, and to start a movement for a people-friendly movement (Jan Mitra Samaj) through an inter-institutional approach.

Raghuvanshi has his task cut out for him since the lot of Dalits and other oppressed minorities continues to be dismal. “In the past, if anyone from the lower caste breached the unwritten law of caste hierarchy, the person would be beaten up in public. Now the person will be shot dead and the village burnt down and the women raped. A bridegroom riding a horse during his wedding, an enterprising peasant digging a well on his land, if a boy falls in love with a girl – do you kill them? Yet, if they belong to the Dalit caste they are killed. We still say that there is rule of law in India,” he said in his acceptance speech while receiving the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights.

He is also concerned about the plight of women and children in this country. “India is still very much a patriarchal and caste-based society with gender discrimination. The destructive effects of gender discrimination, patriarchal oppression and the semi-feudal society so prevalent in 21st century India are manifest in our 55 million children, employed at times in subhuman conditions,” he says in a newspaper interview.

Raghuvanshi received the Gwangju Human Rights Award in 2007. He was made an Ashoka Fellow in 2001 and was presented the International Human Rights Prize of the City of Weimar (Germany) in 2010. Raghuvanshi once said to a newspaper that caste discrimination is so rife in Bundelkhand that a Dalit has to take off his chappal and hold it in his hand if a person belonging to the Thakur caste approaches. It’s not something that would make us proud.

How can you Help?

Caste approaches is not something that would make us proud 

Contact details of the NGO/Institution

Name :  Lenin Raghuvanshi 

Email ID :  lenin@pvchr.asia

Contact Number :  9935599333

Website :  http://www.pvchr.asia

Address :  PVCHR Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 

Fighting caste discrimination

http://www.informed-giving.org/story_details.php?id=Mjgz

Caste is one of India’s most enduring institutions and still retains its hold on Indian society. For those not fortunate to be born in the higher echelons of the caste hierarchy, life can be difficult indeed. Despite government efforts, caste discrimination is still rife, and low-caste Indians have to bear the brunt of poverty, illiteracy and violence. Lenin Raghuvanshi is in the forefront of the fight against caste discrimination, to ensure a just and equal society.

Raghuvanshi is the founder of the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), which fights for the rights of marginalized people in several North Indian states, especially in the area around Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.

Raghuvanshi was born in an upper caste family, which he describes as “feudal”. He got a bachelor’s degree in ayurveda, modern medicine and surgery from the State Ayurvedic College in Haridwar. But the social inequities that faced India made him take up the cause of bonded labourers. This is when he noticed that not a single bonded labourer came from the upper caste, and realised that the problem was essentially caste.

In 1996, Raghuvanshi founded PVCHR to fight the caste system. He works to ensure basic rights to vulnerable groups like children, women, Dalits, tribes and minorities. Raghuvanshi and his team works at the grassroots level in Varanasi and around 200 villages in Uttar Pradesh and five other states. PVCHR works to eliminate situations that give rise to the exploitation of vulnerable and marginalized groups, and to start a movement for a people-friendly movement (Jan Mitra Samaj) through an inter-institutional approach.

Raghuvanshi has his task cut out for him since the lot of Dalits and other oppressed minorities continues to be dismal. “In the past, if anyone from the lower caste breached the unwritten law of caste hierarchy, the person would be beaten up in public. Now the person will be shot dead and the village burnt down and the women raped. A bridegroom riding a horse during his wedding, an enterprising peasant digging a well on his land, if a boy falls in love with a girl – do you kill them? Yet, if they belong to the Dalit caste they are killed. We still say that there is rule of law in India,” he said in his acceptance speech while receiving the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights.

He is also concerned about the plight of women and children in this country. “India is still very much a patriarchal and caste-based society with gender discrimination. The destructive effects of gender discrimination, patriarchal oppression and the semi-feudal society so prevalent in 21st century India are manifest in our 55 million children, employed at times in subhuman conditions,” he says in a newspaper interview.

Raghuvanshi received the Gwangju Human Rights Award in 2007. He was made an Ashoka Fellow in 2001 and was presented the International Human Rights Prize of the City of Weimar (Germany) in 2010. Raghuvanshi once said to a newspaper that caste discrimination is so rife in Bundelkhand that a Dalit has to take off his chappal and hold it in his hand if a person belonging to the Thakur caste approaches. It’s not something that would make us proud.

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Caste approaches is not something that would make us proud 

Contact details of the NGO/Institution

Name :  Lenin Raghuvanshi 

Email ID :  lenin@pvchr.asia

Contact Number :  9935599333

Website :  http://www.pvchr.asia

Address :  PVCHR Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 

PVCHR: India: Threats to human rights defenders of PVCHR

PVCHR: India: Threats to human rights defenders of PVCHR ...: http://www.pvchr.asia/?id=138 ………………………………………………………………………………………… Issue: Intimidation, right to life with dignity, threat to human righ...

Therefore, I request that I, my family, Sapna Chaurasia and her family be protected and a probe should be conducted at high level by the CBCID or CBI due to involvement of corrupts in all sectors such as media, police, NGOs, lawyers, relatives etc, because I received many calls and advises from them to withdrawal my petition and support. First time in my life, I am feeling that my death is so near. I believe in life before death like Jesus, so I am going to fight up to my death against corrupt and patriarchal elements. If I will be died, please support to people of PVCHR and provide care to my son. It is my testimony on the birthday of my son Kabeer karunik on 24 January 2013. From testimony of Lenin Raghuvanshi

http://www.pvchr.net/2013/01/india-threats-to-human-rights-defenders.html

PVCHR: India: Threats to human rights defenders of PVCHR

PVCHR: India: Threats to human rights defenders of PVCHR ...: http://www.pvchr.asia/?id=138 ………………………………………………………………………………………… Issue: Intimidation, right to life with dignity, threat to human righ...

Therefore, I request that I, my family, Sapna Chaurasia and her family be protected and a probe should be conducted at high level by the CBCID or CBI due to involvement of corrupts in all sectors such as media, police, NGOs, lawyers, relatives etc, because I received many calls and advises from them to withdrawal my petition and support. First time in my life, I am feeling that my death is so near. I believe in life before death like Jesus, so I am going to fight up to my death against corrupt and patriarchal elements. If I will be died, please support to people of PVCHR and provide care to my son. It is my testimony on the birthday of my son Kabeer karunik on 24 January 2013. From testimony of Lenin Raghuvanshi

http://www.pvchr.net/2013/01/india-threats-to-human-rights-defenders.html

Thanks to Janab Amitabh Bachchan

Thanks to Janab Amitabh Bachchan ji(http://www.facebook.com/AmitabhBachchan?ref=ts&fref=ts) and Bhashkar Bhatt for bringing the story of most marginalzed people Musahar."Today however at the recording of KBC we have had to devote time to a special programme, on an issue, much like the acid attack victim, which has been another most painful exercise. I was completely unaware of the ‘Musahars’ - a tribe that exists in the Eastern parts of U.P and bits of Bihar, that has been declared as the lowest section of society, the MahaDalits … a Dalit is an untouchable, renamed by Gandhi ji who completely did not believe in the caste system as Harijans, now known as Dalits. The ‘musahar’ through past centuries has lived in the worst kind of squalor and poverty .. have been bonded labor for the land owner who used them to work in the fields, and horror of horrors, deployed them to protect the agricultural land from rodents that were destroying the crops. They were called ‘rat catchers’ in that time and have since been isolated by society to live in penury in dirt and filth with no knowledge or idea of what it meant to be living in clean and sanitised conditions. They were the poorest of the poor and many a times because of the absence of any kind of food available to them survived by eating the rats that they killed to protect the crops in the fields. A most miserable existence, until a retired officer in the police force, gave them hope a home a clean environment and took on the responsibility of educating these people, who had never dared to be educated for they knew that it would not be of any use to them. The literacy quotient within this community has been 3% , of which for the women it has been 1% !!" : from Blog of Amitabh Bachchan ji.http://srbachchan.tumblr.com/post/39768406220#disqus_thread

Please see a documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXbCmFtKMwU

Blog on Musahar:http://musahar.blogspot.in/

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Equality for Dalits: Does it exist? - Kashmir Times

Equality for Dalits: Does it exist? - Kashmir Times

Equality for Dalits: Does it exist?

Reviewed By Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander

Book Review Justice, Liberty, Equality: Dalits in Independent India Author: Lenin Raghuvanshi Publisher: Frontpage Publications, London, U.K Year of Publication: 2012 Price: Not Mentioned Pages: 135 ISBN: 9789381043042 Dalits in India have been suffering since time immemorial in India. Hinduism which believed in Varna system of caste coupled with the Aryan supremacy structured the prejudice, bias and exploitation against dalits. It was deemed to be God ordained commandment on the higher castes to demean, exploit and kill them with impunity. They were destined by God to suffer immortally, thus placed outside the Varna system. The upper castes by trampling their rights and perpetuating atrocities against them were fulfilling the God’s plan. This situation should have changed after the Independence of India in 1947. Indian State adopted secularism and democracy as its foundational pillars of constitution which guaranteed equal rights to all irrespective of religion, caste, color, class, gender, region and community. These constitutional guarantees and rights should have been translated into action, but alas this is not the case. The present book under review by the versatile activist Lenin Raghuvanshi is a testimonial documentation of atrocities, exploitation and abuse of rights of Dalits in “free India’. In the Introduction of the book, Lenin depicts the police violence against Dalits, Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, Crimes against their women and how the culture of impunity shields the guilty. This culture of impunity against the criminals is the biggest threat to the rule of law in India. Lenin woefully states about the Dalit women as, “Dalits are considered untouchables in Indian society yet rape of Dalit women is not considered a taboo by the upper castes. In fact, the latter uses rape as an instrument of continuous subjugation. Dalit women bear a triple burden: discrimination and exploitation based on caste, class and gender. Women are also victims of violence by security forces and armed opposition groups, traditional justice delivery system like ‘caste panchayat’ (illegal body of caste based system in villages) and cruel cultural practices like sati, honor killing and witch hunts. Discriminatory attitudes and lack of sensitization to the dynamics of crimes involving sexual or domestic violence leave victims without critical police aid or redress to which they are entitled”. Talking about the state of impunity enjoyed by police and security forces Lenin states “In fact, almost every section of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPc), 1973 provides some kind of impunity. For example, section 46 empowers the police to shoot to kill any accused charged with a crime punishable by death if that accused person attempts to escape from police custody. The police forces of Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh have made extensive use of this section to cover up fake encounters, killing hundreds of hapless detainees”. Lenin then goes on to describe south of every village as South Africa because it contains Dalits against whom invisible apartheid is still prevalent. The discrimination against Dalits is both intrinsic and external. The Dalits are illiterate hence they are not aware of their constitutional rights; hence fail to alleviate their status. Rest the caste system is embedded in the Indian society and it manifests itself in various forms. The state of impunity is reinforced by the caste considerations as police fails to bring the culprits of crimes against dalits to book either due to caste bias, influence or lure of money. Dalits many times are collectively punished by the upper castes for the crime or mistake of a single Dalit. These examples bring fore the sad fact that spread of literacy hasn’t helped people grow more empathic towards dalits. Also it unveils a gory reality that Indian State has failed to inculcate spirit and virtues of equality and harmony among its institutions. Lenin then moves on to document the plight of Musahar community and their day to day woes. He laments at the post active attitude of the administration in curbing the starvation deaths in this community. The land that is allotted to the Dalits is taken away by upper caste people, and the upper caste Hindu money lenders keep them under perpetual bondage. In this age too there exist bonded laborers in the community. Lenin has worked for Musahars despite impediments by releasing many bonded laborers and establishing a community school, as previously most children were drop outs. He holds the public distribution system responsible for the starvation deaths, as it is corrupt. The medical facilities are lacking which add to the mortality rate. The police still operate on the colonial structure with a communal mindset. Lenin is of the firm opinion that Indian police learnt demoralization and community punishment from the practice of caste system. He then relates many stories of police torture victims. The role of police in fake encounters is also well known, and how they operate in communal riots reinforcing victimization of the minorities. The police torture is widespread in India, and “The biggest problem in combating the State on the issues of torture in India has been the non availability of verifiable data” (P-48). In many cases false medical reports of torture victims are produced in league with medical doctors and sometimes reports are concocted by Police themselves. Lenin is aware of the Legal flaws, “The judiciary is hampered by lack of specific legislation to address cases of torture and human rights violations by the security forces as well due to delayed judicial processes. All these leave the poor victim lonelier, shattered and completely disintegrated, irrespective of economic status” (P-49). Lenin wants and desires, “India is yet to adopt any legislation recognizing the right to compensation for human rights violations. The government continues to maintain its reservation to Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which states that under the Indian legal system there is no enforceable right to compensation for persons claiming to be victims of unlawful arrest or detention against the State. The courts and National Human Rights institutions, however, have awarded compensation for human rights violations, including torture”. (P-49). The chapter on Testimonial Therapy is the jewel of the book. It gives hope to the victims of torture to overcome the psychological trauma in post torture phase. But only a few pages are dedicated to explain the testimonial therapy. Lenin abruptly moves to the Shrinking Livelihood in India. He quotes as case studies, the decline in the production of world famous Benaras Silk, as a result of the rival Chinese silk. Lenin relates the diseases associated with the handlooms and the Tuberculosis being rampant among the handloom workers and weavers. Then he again states about the severe malnutrition in Uttar Pradesh, though it is not Somalia. Lenin continues with the child starvation deaths this time in Ghasias community, who are also victim of government apathy. The last two chapters deal with Rule of Lords, Political Patronage & how caste, patriarchy and corruption help in perpetuation of the same. Lenin relates violence against women, in the form of infanticide, honor killings, domestic violence, child marriages, infant and maternal mortality rates. If certain women make it to the panchayats still their husbands control the affairs. Lenin then goes on to track the record of victims of fake encounters, extra and custodial killings by the Police since 1960s, which rose to epidemic proportions in early 1990s when innocents were being targeted as Maoists, Sikh militants or Islamic Jihadi extremists. The incompetence of National Human Rights Commission to protect human rights of innocents has rendered it as a toothless tiger. The State also acts softly on Hindutva fascist cadres. To add insult to injury criminalization of politics is ruling roost. Overall the book is a welcome read and must for everyone who wants to be aware of the underbelly of Indian State. But the scheme of chapters and selection of case studies at times betray the title of the book, the scope of the book is much wider than its title conveys. It covers a lot of ground, but thematically it appears to be jumbled in a hurry. Despite its flaws Lenin needs to be congratulated for his endeavor. This book is a testimony to the fact that there are serious problems and grave issues with the project of ‘Shining India’. (The author is Writer-Activist based in Srinagar, Kashmir and can be reached at sikandarmushtaq@gmail.com)

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http://www.pvchr.net/2011/11/lopsided-growth.html

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http://www.pvchr.net/2011/09/controversy-on-ahrcasian-human-rights_19.html

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सरोकार » पुलिस बेगुनाह मुसहर को परेशान करती है

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पुलिस बेगुनाह मुसहर को परेशान करती है


डॉ. लेनिन रघुवंशी पूर्वी उत्तरप्रदेश में ग़रीब और कमज़ोर लोगों के साथ होने वाले ज़ोर-जुल्‍म की कहानियां लगातार सरोकार को भेज रहे हैं. इस बार पेश है वाराणसी में पुलिस उत्‍पीड़न के शिकार कमलेश मुसहर की दास्‍तां उन्‍हीं की जुबानी

                                                            सहायता राशि के साथ कमलेश

मेरा नाम कमलेश मुसहर है। मैं ग्राम-गाँगकला, पोस्ट-बड़ागाँव, थाना-बड़ागाँव, ब्लाक-बड़ागाँव, तहसील-पिण्डरा, जिला-वाराणसी का रहने वाला हूँ। मेरे परिवार में मेरी पत्नी शांति देवी है। मेरी तीन लडकियाँ तथा दो लड़के है। सभी लड़कियों और एक लड़के की शादी मैंने किसी तरह कर दी है। अभी एक लड़का जिसकी शादी की उम्र हो गयी है लेकिन पुलिस यातना के कारण शारीरिक रूप से अस्वस्थ होने के कारण अभी तक उसका विवाह नहीं हो पाया है।

पहले मैं शादी में बाजा बजाने का काम करता था, लेकिन अभी अस्वस्थ और दमा के रोगी होने के कारण मै भट्ठे पर अपनी पत्नी की मजदूरी करने में मदद करता हूँ। आज से करीब दस साल पहले अपने परिवार के साथ हँसी ख़ुशी जीवन बिता रहा था। तभी उसी साल (2000) गर्मी के महीने में एक आँधी सी आयी और मेरी जिन्दगी तहस-नहस हो गयी। मैं अपनी बहन के यहाँ लड़के की शादी में धरसौना गाँव में गया था। शादी कुशल-मंगल बीतने के बाद सभी रिश्तेदार अपने घर वापस चले गये। मैं भी वापस घर आ गया। मुझे यह बात उस समय पता नहीं था कि धरसौना में किसी राजभर की हत्या हुई है। शादी से आकर थक कर हम लोग मड़ई के बाहर नींद में सो रहे थे, तभी रात के करीब ग्यारह बजे पुलिस की गाड़ी बस्ती के बाहर आकर रूकी। गाड़ी की तेज आवाज सुनकर मेरी नींद खुली तो देखा-पुलिस! मैं आँख मलते हुए डर से खड़ा हो गया और सोचा इतनी रात को बस्ती में पुलिस क्यो आयी। दरोगा और पुलिस बस्ती में छा गये और १४ लोगों को मेरी बस्ती से ले जाने लगे। रात होने के कारण बस्ती के सभी लोग कहीं अन्दर कहीं बाहर सोये थे। मैंने हिम्मत करके डरते हुए पुलिस से पूछा-‘साहब हमें क्यो ले जा रहे हैं, हमारा गुनाह क्या है।’ तब पुलिस ने गन्दी-गन्दी गालियां देते हुए और मुझे मारते हुए कहा-‘‘साले चलो थाने वहीं तुम्हें बताता हूँ।’’ यह सुनते ही मेरा साँस की रफ्तार और तेज हो गई। मेरे बदन से पसीना निकलने लगा। वो लोग मुझे थाने ले गये। हम सभी लोग परेशान थे। थाने में फूलपुर थाने के गिरफ्तार लोग भी आये थे। थाने में जगह न होने के कारण कुछ लोग बाहर रहते थे कुछ थाने में ताला बन्द करके थाने के अन्दर रह रहे थे। सभी मुसहर ही थाने में थे। मैं रात भर यही सोच रहा था कि क्या इस हत्या के जुर्म के आरोपी सभी मुसहर ही हैं।

साथ ही साथ मुझे अपने परिवार की चिंता भी सता रही थी। जैसे-तैसे रात गुजर गयी, सुबह होने पर कुछ उम्मीद हुई कि शायद ये लोग पुछताछ करके

                                                    कमलेश की जली हुई मड़ई
छोड़ देंगे, लेकिन ऐसा नहीं हुआ। एक के बाद एक-एक कर के सभी मुसहरो को छोड़ने लगे। मैं सोच रहा था शायद अब मेरा नम्बर आयेगा। मैं भी अपने घर जाऊँगा, लेकिन मेरी उम्मीदों पर पानी फिर गया। मैं और मेरे साथ चारो लोगों को पुलिस हिरासत से छुटकारा न मिला। मुझसे और इन लोगों से पुलिस बार-बार पुछती-‘‘क्यों, तुमने राजभर की हत्या की है?’ मैंने कहा-‘‘मैं किसी राजभर को नहीं जानता, मैंने किसी को नहीं मारा है।’’ तब वह मुझे डंडे से मारते और बोलते तुम अपना जुर्म कबूल नहीं कर रहे हो। वे मुझे जबरदस्ती हत्या का आरोपी बना रहे थे, कह रहे थे-‘‘तुम्हारी रिश्तेदारी धरसौना है।’’ मैं सोचने लगा रिश्तेदारी होने के कारण मुझे इतनी बड़ी सजा मिल रही है। जहाँ-जहाँ रिश्तेदारी है क्या वहाँ कोई किसी भी तरह की घटना घटेगी तो मैं उसका जिम्मेदार हो जाऊँगा। मैं उनकी मार खाता और रोता रहता, दिन भर यही सिलसिला चलता रहा। दुसरे दिन सभी मुसहरो को छोड़ दिया गया। मुझे ही सिर्फ पुलिस की हिरासत में रखा गया। यह देख मैं और डर गया कि कहीं यह लोग मुझे जेल न भेज दें, तब मेरा और मेरे घर वालों का क्या होगा। मेरी कच्ची गृहस्थी थी, सभी मेरे ऊपर आश्रित थे। घर के लोग जो कुछ बनी मजदूरी मिलती, उसी को करके अपना पेट चला रहे थे। मेरी पत्नी का रो-रोकर बुरा हाल हो गया था। मैं भी पुलिस की मार से कमजोर हो गया था। थाने में रूखा-सुखा मिलता था, पर खाया नहीं जाता था। डंडे मारने से थकने के बाद पुलिस ने जबरदस्ती जुर्म कबूल करने के लिए मेरे पैरों पर रोलर चलवाया, मैं चिखता-चिल्लाता, ‘‘साहब! यह क्या कर रहे है।’’ लेकिन मुझ पर उनको दया नहीं आयी। रोलर चलने के बाद मेरा शरीर ढीला पड़ गया, जैसे लग रहा था जान ही नहीं है। मै बहुत रो रहा था, बार-बार यही शब्द मेरे मुँह से निकलता, मैंने कोई हत्या नहीं की है, मुझे मत मारो, लेकिन वो लोग एक न सुनते। मैंने अपनी जिन्दगी में सोचा भी नहीं था कि यह दिन मुझे देखना पड़ेगा। मेरा घर मेरे बच्चे व पत्नी सभी परेशान और दुःखी थे। मेरी हालत के बारे में सुनकर उनका भी रो-रोकर बुरा हाल हो गया था। पुलिस के इस व्यवहार को देखकर मुझे लगता था मैं यहाँ से जिन्दा वापस अपने परिवार में नही जा पाऊँगा। मार के साथ-साथ पुलिस मुझे भद्दी-भद्दी गालियाँ भी देती थी। तीसरे दिन मेरी स्थिति अधिक खराब होती देख उन लोगों ने मुझे छोड़ दिया। लेकिन मेरे शारीर पर इतनी चोट थी कि मैं अपने पैरों पर उठ कर चल नहीं पा रहा था। कोशिश कर रहा था कि किसी तरह इनके चंगुल से निकल कर मैं अपने घर जाऊं। मैं एक-एक कदम रखते हुए किसी तरह बाहर निकला, तभी फिर पुलिस वाले मुझे बोले ‘‘यहीं रुको, कोई आये-जाये तो उसे पानी पिलाना।’’ यह सुनते ही मेरे होश उड़ गए, “शारीर फिर निर्जीव-सा हो गया। दस दिन तक थाने में रह कर आने-जाने वाले लोगों को नाश्ता-पानी करवाता और खाना बनाता। बार-बार मन में यही ख्याल आता, एक तो मेरे ऊपर इतनी ज्यादती की और मुझे घर पर भी जाने नहीं दे रहे हैं। मुझसे दस दिन तक गुलामी करवाया। मुझे मजदूरी भी नहीं दी। मुझे बहुत दुःख हो रहा था लेकिन वहाँ से छूटने पर मेरी जान में जान आयी, मैं घर चला आया।

आज भी मुझे पुलिस से डर लगता है क्योंकि पुलिस बेगुनाह मुसहर को ही परेशान करती है। पुलिस की इस घटना से मेरा पारिवारिक जीवन बुरी तरह प्रभावित हुआ। वहाँ से आने के बाद मैं शारीरिक रूप से अस्वस्थ रहने लगा मुझे काम करने में दिक्कत होने लगी। जिसके कारण आर्थिक स्थिति खराब हो गयी है। बच्चे भी अब अलग रहने लगे हैं। एक लड़के की शादी की जिम्मेदारी सिर पर है। टेस्टीमोनियल थेरेपी के तहत ’मानवाधिकार जन निगरानी समिति’ द्वारा टेस्टीमोनियल थेरेपी प्रदान की गयी। टेस्टीमोनियल थेरेपी के तहत मनोवैज्ञानिक व सामाजिक उपचार से राहत मिली थी कि तभी अचानक दिसम्बर माह में मड़ई में आग लग गयी और साड़ी गृहस्थी तबाह हो गयी। सारा समान, बिस्तर, कम्बल, कपड़ा, खटिया और अनाज जलकर खाक हो गए। उसके बाद से तो जीवन और भी बदतर हो गया है। बच्चे अलग रहते हैं। कोई भी आर्थिक मदद नही करता है। ‘मानवाधिकार जन निगरानी समिति’ वाराणसी ने रिहैबिलिटेशन एण्ड रिसर्च सेन्टर फॉर टार्चर विक्टिम्स, डेनमार्क के सहयोग से 9,800 रुपये प्रदान कर हमारे पुर्नवास में सहयोग प्रदान किया है। हम सभी निराशा की गर्त में थे, लेकिन समिति के सहयोग से हमारी जिंदगी में रोशनी आ गयी है और जीवन अब अच्छा लग रहा है।

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डॉ0 लेनिन रघुवंशी 'मानवाधिकार जन निगरानी समिति' के महासचिव हैं और वंचितों के अधिकारों पर इनके कामों के लिये इन्‍हें 'वाइमर ह्युमन राइट्स अवॉर्ड', जर्मनी एवं 'ग्वांजू ह्युमन राइट्स अवॉर्ड', दक्षिण कोरिया से नवाज़ा गया है. लेनिन सरोकार के लिए मानवाधिकार रिपोर्टिंग करेंगे, ऐसा उन्‍होंने वायदा किया है. उनसे pvchr.india@gmail.com पर संपर्क साधा जा सकता है.

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