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INDIA: BAR HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE EXPRESSES SERIOUS CONCERN THAT THE RAIDS ON INDIRA JAISING AND ANAND GROVER FORM PART OF A PATTERN OF HARASSMENT AND INTIMIDATION DIRECTED AGAINST CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS.

July 11, 2019
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) writes to express its alarm and concern at the raids conducted by the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation early this morning at the homes and offices of Senior Advocates Indira Jaising and Anand Grover in New Delhi and Mumbai. We understand this follows the filing...
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BHRC calls on India to abolish punitive foreign NGO rules, and reverse human rights group’s suspension

June 22, 2016
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has today issued a statement calling on the Indian government to repeal or amend a law targeting foreign NGOs, and reverse their decision to suspend the registration of a leading Indian human rights group. The Lawyers Collective, founded by prominent human rights lawyers Indira Jaising and Anand...
Events

‘India’s Daughter’ – Film screening and panel discussion

March 24, 2015
On 6th March, Plan UK, BHRC and Doughty Street Chambers held a special screening of the ground breaking film India’s Daughter, which tells the story of the brutal gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh in Delhi in 2012, exposing the attitudes to women which allowed it to happen. The film powerfully explores the wider social...
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Legal analysis on the right to education in India

February 27, 2014
In 2011 and 2012 JKM undertook research in Mumbai to investigate the right to education and why less than half of children in India between the ages of six and fourteen attend school. The aim of this report was to investigate why so few children benefit from the education system and to establish what can...
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BHRC re-publishes Open Letter in the matter of the immediate risk of execution of Professor Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar – India

May 30, 2013
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) re-publishes today, 5th June, an Open Letter addressed to the President of India, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, the Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh, the Indian Home Minister, Mr Sushilkumar Shinde, and the President of the Indian National Congress party, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, expressing concern at the recent rejection...

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