Right To Food: Initiatives
Mr. Santhosh Patel, a staff member of People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), was illegally arrested on 7 June 2006 when he met with the District Magistrate Mr. Rajiv Agarwal along with other villagers from Belwa village to lodge complaints of corruption and other discriminatory practices of public officers responsible for Belwa village.
Arundhati Dhuru, advisor from UP to Commissioners appointed by the Supreme Court in matters related to Right to Food, writes about the state of nutrition and the PDS in rural UP and reports from the Public Hearing at Gorakhpur.
We, 200 members of people's organizations, faith-based communities and social movements, representing all continents of the world from 29 countries, who have met in Hong Kong from December 9 to 11, 2005, to assess and protest the impact of the policies of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on the world's poor and to make recommendations to address the hardships that the WTO has created, offer this statement.
Having identified the evil designs and the plans of plunder of the World Trade Organisation, which has been, since inception, the handmaid of Transnational Corporations trying to shape national policies in order to strengthen their global control over political, economic and cultural life resulting in the globalisation of misery to the masses in the two thirds of the world in general and to the Indian masses in particular,
On 14th October, a (rally) dharna was organized by Bunkar Dastkar Adhikar Manch (weavers and artisans forum) before District Magistrate Varanasi to protest the policies of WTO, IMF and World Bank.
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was passed in August this year with the purpose of guaranteeing employment to every rural household in India for at least one hundred days in every financial year. In a multi-part series, Ranjana Ghosh presents a review of the historic Act.
On October 17 2005, twelve countries in Asia launched the Peoples' Caravan for Justice and Sovereignty in protest against the December 14-18, WTO Hong Kong Ministerial 2005.
Allahabad, 25 June: The "Rozgar Adhikar Yatra" launched from Delhi on 13 May, reached Allahabad today after a hectic journey of more than 4,000 kms through ten states. The Right to Employment Campaign files this report.
In the last couple of weeks, the Rozgar Adhikar Yatra travelled through Bihar and U. P., using public debates and conversations with various sections of our communities to discuss the need for minimum wage employment programs for the economic sustenance of India.
Police attacked the Rozgar Adhikar Yatra at Balrampur, Madhya Pradesh, severely injuring numerous citizens of local communities as well as members of the campaign. This eyewitness account by Reetika Khera, a PhD student at the Delhi School of Economics, was first published at www.righttofoodindia.org
Under the banner of Peoples� Action for Employment Guarantee � a coalition of around 100 organizations and movements � a national �Rozgar Adhikar Yatra� was launched from New Delhi on 13 May 2005.
Reported by Mumbai.indymedia.org