Category: Human Rights

Dinbandhu Vats delivered a lecture on Digital human rights in India and role of civil society in a webinar organized by Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow on 28th February 2023. Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University, Lucknow in association with Uttar Pradesh Human Rights Commission (UPHRC) has organised an online 'Interdisciplinary Discourse on Digital Human Rights' from 26-28 February, 2023 under the aegis of UPHRC sponsored project titled 'A Study of Issues & Challenges of Digital Human Rights in the State of Uttar Pradesh'. There can be no doubt that digital technologies have thrust our world forward towards unprecedented human progress. We are in the midst of a massive digital transformation that has affected every aspect of society. In 2016, the UNHRC General Assembly articulated access to…

12-15 December 2022, Ambedkar Nagar. Dinbandhu Vast was the principal facilitator of the workshop organized by PANI, Ayodhya. The workshop focused on advocacy for young girls on health, nutrition and education. Young activists were imparted training to understand about the basics of advocacy, community led advocacy, importance of information in advocacy and develop clear understanding to prepare the advocacy plan at community level.

The consultation on the Functioning of the State Human Rights Commission and District Human Rights Courts in Rajasthan was organized by PAIRVI and Centre for Dalit Rights, Jaipur at Conference Hall, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur on 30 November 2022. The consultation starts with the release of the draft report on Functioning of the State Human Rights Commission and District Human Rights Courts in Rajasthan. The report was prepared by CDR and supported by PAIRVI. Dinbandhu Vats from PAIRVI shared the key findings of the report mainly containing objective, functioning, power, jurisdiction, composition, tenure, accessibility and complaint mechanism of Rajasthan Human Rights Commission and violation of human rights particularly against Dalits, women and Children in. It also focuses on Human Rights Courts as well as exclusive SC/ST Courts under SC/ST…

The consultation was organized by PAIRVI  in association with Lucknow based organization Amaltas on 23rd November 2022 at Gomti Hotel, Lucknow. The consultation started with the release of a draft report of the study on status and rights of transgender in Uttar Pradesh. The draft report, which was shared with the participants for their comments and reflections, contains historical perspective of transgender, socio-economic condition, NALSA Judgement, The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019, Uttar Pradesh Transgender Welfare Board, National Transgender Portal, government’s social security schemes for transgender and demands of transgender community. This report encompasses 10 case studies of transgender people from Lucknow, Varanasi and Agra.   The consultation witnessed the deliberations of Shri Birbal Sharma and Shri SP Singh, both members of Uttar Pradesh Transgender Welfare Board, Guddan Nayak,…

The two-day workshop on child rights and media was organized by PAIRVI at AN Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna on 1-2 May 2022. The workshop focused on themes like Child, childhood and child rights, accessing justice for children, laws and regulation for reporting on children, media reporting of children, storytelling /content development and press relations.  Dr. ShipraMathur, PEN Media Foundation, Sunil Jha , Senior Consultant Child Rights, Dr. Akhilesh Kumar, Assistant Professor Patna University, Santosh Upadhyaya, Child Rights Activist, Situ Tiwari, Freelance Journalist, Savita kumari, Hindustan, Pratima Paswan, GGMVH, Pramod Kumar Singh, Dainik Jagran, Ranvijay Kumar, Centre For Advocacy and Research, Ramakant Prasad Chandan, Editorial Adviser Rashtriya Sahara, Swayam Prakash, Senior Journalist and  Anand Madhab, Senior Development Professional and Media Consultant were among the resource persons.  More than 40…

An informal meeting was organized with the Pujhar community of Dhanphari Village under Mathurapur Block of Deoghar district in Jharkhand on 23rd April 2022. Around 30 people from this community participated in the meeting. They originally belong to the Khaira Paharia primitive tribe which is mentioned in the land record. They have descended from Rajmahal hills and made habitation at the foothill area. Their living conditions and social behavior are alike to PVTGs. They have raised two important issues, first lack of safe drinking water.  They claimed that among the 40-45 households only two hand pumps are there. They are largely dependent on Joria, a thin source of water coming from the hills, to fetch the water and second they are almost similar to primitive tribes in living condition and social behavior but…