Category: Human Rights

PAIRVI organized a consultation on Socio-economic development of Paharia PVTG: From problems to solutions at Training Hall, Lumai Haveli, Dumka, Jharkhand on 10 June 2023. Being a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), the Paharia community deserves special attention and government assistance for their upliftment. Many government schemes are implemented to improve their socio-economic status and betterment of basic needs like education, health, livelihood, employment, cultural preservation etc. But this community is still far away from the essential requirements and facilities for a dignified life. Their life is based on water, forest, land and animals. In the new development module, there is a crisis in all the tribal communities, but the primitive tribes are also tribals for the tribals, so the crisis is deeper for them at every level. Issues like…

  PAIRVI has been, for many years, organizing the national workshops to build perspective of the CSOs on various issues and to create a platform for sharing advocacy strategies, celebrating our successes and reflecting on gaps and challenges. This time PAIRVI has organized the National Workshop  on Seeking, Demanding  and Organizing Transformational Change  at SIDH, Learning Resource Centre, Kempty, Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand on 10-12 May 2023. The workshop witnessed participation of 27 participants from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi. This time we had fixed the participants' age limit of 45 years to get relatively younger participants on board. Advocacy and community outreach are essential skills for anyone who wants to make a positive impact on the world. While working with CSOs it is important to have the…

The meeting was organized under Women Beedi workers empowerment programme on 26 March 2023. Around 60 participants, mostly minority women workers of Narghoshi, Manika , and Khalispur villages participated in the meeting. This meeting was organized at Jawahar Jyoti Bal Vikas Kendra, Akhtiyarpur in Samastipur district. Purpose of this meeting was to discuss skill-oriented training to generate livelihood options. Women and girls present in the meeting asked to conduct the training of beauticians while some of them stressed on sewing and embroidery. Based on these skills women can start their own enterprises with small capital in their own villages. Most of these women are a typical conservative minority and they do not prefer to go outside. These skills can be utilized to earn at village level and they can start…

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,…