On 29.01.2014, Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) a Dalit identified as U Ezhumalai (35) was beaten to dead by upper caste people at Gandhinagar village in Thiruvanainallur in Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu on 16.01.2014. The deceased friend identified as Ayyapan also sustained injuries in […]
Child Sex Ratio (CSR) has seriously declined from 982 female per 1000 boys (0-6 years) in 1971, the period before the use of the ultrasound machines, to 909 in 2011 in Himachal Pradesh. All the top five districts of the State with lowest CSR i.e. Una (870), Kangra (873), Hamirpur (881), Bilaspur (893) and Solan […]
As per census from 1981 to 2011, India’s only Muslim majority State Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) had recorded the highest decline in the Child Sex Ratio (CSR) by 102 points followed by tiny Dadra & Nagar Haveli (69 points), Haryana (68 points), Rajasthan (66 points), Himachal Pradesh (62 points) and Punjab (62 points), among others. […]
