Sunday, October 23, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Meeting at Remschied,Germany
Mehr Raum für Bildung – für "unsere indische Schule" im Dorf Baghwanala
Präsentation des Projekts in einer Ausstellung
Rahmenprogramm: "Band Flavour" und Austausch über "Skype": Dr. Lenin und Chanda, Teamleiterin des indischen Dalit-Teams mit den PartnerInnen in Remscheid
Der Bau der Schule im indischen Dorf Baghwanala für Dalit-Kinder, die Ärmsten in der indischen Gesellschaft, wurde nur mit Fördergeldern Remscheider Sponsoren und der Deutsch-Indischen Gesellschaft Remscheid und durch den indischen Partner der Gesellschaft, Dr. Lenin Raghuvansi und seiner Menschenrechtsorganisation PVCHR –People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights, ermöglicht. Die Einweihung erfolgte am 08. März 2010.
Feierliche Eröffnung
Die Oberbürgermeisterin, Frau Beate Wilding, Schirmherrin des Projektes, wird in Anwesenheit geladener Gäste, Freunde und Förderer der Deutsch-Indischen Gesellschaft und des Röntgen-Gymnasiums Remscheid, die Ausstellung eröffnen, die durch die freundliche Unterstützung der Stadtsparkasse Remscheid, vertreten durch Herrn Koch to Krax, ermöglicht wird.
Die Ausstellung
Die Ausstellung spiegelt vorrangig das Engagement der SchülerInnen des Röntgen Gymnasiums wider, die seit 2006 als "Dalit-Team" unter dem Motto "Together in friendship for Dalits rights" den Austausch mit Schulkindern aus Dalit-Familien, insbesondere im Dorf Baghwanala, pflegen. Sie machen über öffentliche Aktionen auf ihre Freunde in Indien und deren Kampf um ihre Rechte aufmerksam, und geben ihnen damit große moralische Unterstützung von außerhalb ihres Landes.
War es bis jetzt das ideelle Engagement für die Dalit, so setzen sich nun die SchülerInnen des "Dalit-Team", zum ersten Mal, zusammen mit der Deutsch-Indischen Gesellschaft, dafür ein, dass ihnen auch materielle Hilfe zuteil wird. Damit der Wunsch vieler Kinder auf Schulbildung im indischen Dorf Baghwanala erfüllt wird, werben sie nicht nur über die Ausstellung für den Erweiterungsbau der Schule, sondern werden zusätzlich mit der Unterstützung ihres neuen Direktors, Herrn Lippert, ein Benefizkonzert im Röntgen -Gymnasium mit Rahmenprogramm organisieren.
Veranstalter: Eine Kooperation der Deutsch-Indischen Gesellschaft Remscheid und dem und Röntgen-Gymnasium Remscheid mit seinem "Schüler-Dalit-Team"
Ort: im Eingangs- und Kundenbereich der Stadtsparkasse Remscheid
Info about PVCHR In German
Dalit support team in Germany
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Justice, Liberty, Equality: Dalits in Independent India
http://www.frontpagepublications.com/justice.html
Justice, Liberty, Equality:
Dalits in Independent India
Dalits in Independent India
By Lenin Raghuvanshi
INR 295; £ 9.95; $ 14.95
In order to get an e-copy in PDF version, please write to info@frontpagepublications.com
(For India Only)
ISBN: 978 93 810430 4 2;
Size: 215 mm X 140 mm;
Pages: 144; PB; Year: 2012
Size: 215 mm X 140 mm;
Pages: 144; PB; Year: 2012
It has been 64 years since India — the largest democracy in the world — attained independence. Yet, justice for all is still a far cry in the country where the caste system continues to determine political, social, and economic lives of a billion people.
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.
In a unique way, Lenin Raghuvanshi, a veteran human rights activist, citing the case-studies primarily drawn from Uttar Pradesh, registering the highest rate of crime against the Dalits, chronicles how with implicit support from the administration, the Dalits are tortured and subjected to humiliation by the higher castes, like being garlanded with shoes, their faces blackened or being forced to ride an ass; yet, in most of the cases, violence, deaths or custodial tortures that are committed against the marginalised and deprived castes go unrecorded.
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.
Lenin Raghuvanshi an Ayurvedic physician by profession, has been working for the rights of bonded and child labourers and other marginalised people in Varanasi and eastern part of Uttar Pradesh, India. In 1996, he and his wife Shruti founded People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Right (PVCHR), a community-based organisation, 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.
Already an Ashoka Fellow, Lenin was the President, United Nations’ Youth Organisation (UNYO), Uttar Pradesh (India) Chapter. Lenin’s work has been recognised with Gwangju Human Rights Award for 2007. In 2009, in collaboration with the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victim (RCT), Denmark, Lenin developed Testimonial Models for torture survivors in India. City Council of Weimar in Germany selected Lenin Raghuvanshi for the International Human Rights Award for 2010.
General Editor:
Bandana Purkayastha, Ph D, Head & Professor, Sociology and Professor, Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut, USA
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.
In a unique way, Lenin Raghuvanshi, a veteran human rights activist, citing the case-studies primarily drawn from Uttar Pradesh, registering the highest rate of crime against the Dalits, chronicles how with implicit support from the administration, the Dalits are tortured and subjected to humiliation by the higher castes, like being garlanded with shoes, their faces blackened or being forced to ride an ass; yet, in most of the cases, violence, deaths or custodial tortures that are committed against the marginalised and deprived castes go unrecorded.
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.
Lenin Raghuvanshi an Ayurvedic physician by profession, has been working for the rights of bonded and child labourers and other marginalised people in Varanasi and eastern part of Uttar Pradesh, India. In 1996, he and his wife Shruti founded People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Right (PVCHR), a community-based organisation, 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.
Already an Ashoka Fellow, Lenin was the President, United Nations’ Youth Organisation (UNYO), Uttar Pradesh (India) Chapter. Lenin’s work has been recognised with Gwangju Human Rights Award for 2007. In 2009, in collaboration with the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victim (RCT), Denmark, Lenin developed Testimonial Models for torture survivors in India. City Council of Weimar in Germany selected Lenin Raghuvanshi for the International Human Rights Award for 2010.
General Editor:
Bandana Purkayastha, Ph D, Head & Professor, Sociology and Professor, Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut, USA
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