"Rights (ECHR) that because of this factor and because the crime was committed in the UK that he should be tried in the UK. Director of Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti said of the Home Secretary's decision ""This is a great day for rights, freedoms and justice in the United Kingdom."" The Home Office also admitted that it was the Human Rights Act which essentially prevented the extradition. Gay rights Liberty intervened in the case of gay couple Michael Black and John Morgan who were turned away from a bed and breakfast because of the owner's religious views. On 18 October 2012"
"Radhika Chandiramani Radhika Chandiramani is the founder of TARSHI, a New Delhi-based NGO that works on issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights. She is a clinical psychologist, writer and editor. Her published works on sexuality and human rights have been covered in media and scholarly reviews. Chandiramani received the MacArthur Fellowship in the year 1995 for leadership development. She is also the recipient of the 2003 Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellowship from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Chandiramani trained in clinical psychology at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS). Chandiramani founded TARSHI"
"other organizations, organized a nationwide campaign called ""Reservation Express"" in 2009, which involved three caravans travelling through the country, apart from Campaign, public meetings, conferences and cultural programmes. ANHAD ANHAD (Act Now for Harmony and Democracy) is an Indian socio-cultural organization established in March 2003, as a response to 2002 Gujarat riots. Professional activist Shabnam Hashmi, sister of the slain activist Safdar Hashmi and founder of SAHMAT, Marxian historian Prof. K N Panikkar and social activist Harsh Mander are the founding members of ANHAD. Based in Delhi, ANHAD works in the field of secularism, human rights and communal harmony. ANHAD’s"
"justice, democracy and secularism. She was awarded the Association for Communal Harmony in Asia (ACHA) Star Award for Communal Harmony in 2005, Aamil Smriti Samman in 2005 and the National Minority Rights Award 2008 by the National Minority Commission. Shabnam Hashmi Shabnam Hashmi (born 1957) is an Indian social activist and human rights campaigner. She started her social activism campaigning about adult literacy in 1981. Since 1989 she has spent most of her time in combating communal and fundamentalist forces in India. After the Gujarat riots of 2002, Hashmi changed her focus to grass roots work and has spent a"
"Hammurabi Human Rights Organization The Hammurabi Human Rights Organization (also known as HHRO), founded in 2005, is a non-profit organization located in Iraq. The organization focuses on human rights on the local and international level. It also focuses on rights for minority groups within Iraq like Yezidis, Sabian, Mandaen, Turkoman, Assyrians, Armenians and more. Its goal is to provide not only documentation for human rights abuses but also to provide humanitarian aid in Iraq. It focuses on vulnerable groups that are more likely to have their rights violated like children and women. To raise awareness about the issues HHRO publishes"
"as speaking to racial issues from a neutral perspective. Also, it has Sikhs, Jains, Hindi, and Muslims on its staff. In 1995, the organization was named the first recipient of the Anubhai Chimanlal Nagarikta Puraskar for its sustained contribution to the city of Ahmedabad. In memory of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi, SXSSS launched SHANTI (Peace) in Ahmedabad where Gandhi founded his famous Sabarmati Ashram, and where clashes between the Hindus and Muslims have persisted. SHANTI strives to impact people's attitudes at the grassroots level and publishes reports on its efforts and experiences. In December 2004,"
"helpline in a 1998 issue of the journal ""Reproductive Health Matters."" She is a regular contributor to TARSHI’s digital magazine ""In Plainspeak"", and she has written for ""Outlook India"" and ""India Today"". Radhika Chandiramani Radhika Chandiramani is the founder of TARSHI, a New Delhi-based NGO that works on issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights. She is a clinical psychologist, writer and editor. Her published works on sexuality and human rights have been covered in media and scholarly reviews. Chandiramani received the MacArthur Fellowship in the year 1995 for leadership development. She is also the recipient of the 2003"
"the Human Rights Act. In August 2015, Chakrabarti said Liberty intended to become ""more vigilant and active"" in Scotland. She later shared a platform with Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to jointly defend the HRA. In January 2016 it emerged that Chakrabarti was standing down as Liberty's director. Martha Spurrier took up the post at the end of May. Since 2016, Liberty's work has been dominated by taking a High Court challenge to the Investigatory Powers Act, and campaigning against the so-called 'hostile environment' policies and for an end to the use of indefinite immigration detention in the UK. BBC"
"of India (founded in 1997) is a non-profit which runs an orphanage for victims of the 2002 Gujarat riots in partnership with USA's One World Children's Fund. The Foundation recently was in the news for adopting the family of the late 11-year-old Shanno Khan. Dr.Mahmood's work in regard to these organizations has also been featured on CNN and America's National Public Radio (NPR). In September 2009, ZFI filed a 'Right To Information' application to question why the Government had rejected the Sachar Committee recommendations to ensure proper governance of Wakf properties. On June 29, 2013 Dr. Mahmood was invited as"
"ANHAD ANHAD (Act Now for Harmony and Democracy) is an Indian socio-cultural organization established in March 2003, as a response to 2002 Gujarat riots. Professional activist Shabnam Hashmi, sister of the slain activist Safdar Hashmi and founder of SAHMAT, Marxian historian Prof. K N Panikkar and social activist Harsh Mander are the founding members of ANHAD. Based in Delhi, ANHAD works in the field of secularism, human rights and communal harmony. ANHAD’s activities include secular mobilization,sensitizing people about their democratic rights as enshrined in Indian Constitution, research and publication of books and reports, welfare programs for marginalised sections of society,"
"in jails. World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) selected Mr. Roy out of ten activists of the world during the auspices of international human rights day; 2012 and published his version. In June 2008, the West Bengal police filed several cases against Roy after he had organized a ‘People’s Tribunal on Torture’ documenting several instances of police torture[3][4]. www.amnesty.org/en/50/inspirational-stories/kirity-roy Kirity Roy Kirity Roy is an Indian civil rights activist working in West Bengal. As secretary of a non-governmental human rights organisation based in Serampore, Hoogly, near Kolkata, Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), he has been documenting alleged state atrocities, particularly in"
"on 31 March 2016. Martha Spurrier was announced as her successor to the post of director. In June 2008, Andy Burnham, the British Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, made what Chakrabarti claimed were ""insinuations"" in an interview in ""Progress"" magazine at Shadow Home Secretary David Davis's resignation over the 42-day detention for terror suspects. Davis, a Conservative MP, was said by Burnham to have had ""late-night, hand-wringing, heart-melting phone calls with Shami Chakrabarti."" Chakrabarti received an apology from Burnham for his ""innuendo and attempted character assassination"". On 18 April 2009, it was reported in ""The Times"" and"
"Shamita Das Dasgupta Shamita Das Dasgupta (Bengali : শমীতা দাশ দাশগুপ্ত, born 1949) is an Asian Indian scholar, activist, wife and mother. A social activist since early 1970s, she co-founded Manavi in 1985. It is the first organization of its kind that focuses on violence against South Asian women in the United States. A part-time teacher and full-time community worker, she has written extensively in the areas of ethnicity, gender, immigration, and violence against women. Her books include: ""A Patchwork Shawl: Chronicles of South Asian Women in America"", ""Body Evidence: Intimate Violence Against South Asian Women in America"", ""Globalization and"
"Zonal Welfare Council Zonal Welfare Council is a grassroots NGO based in Kolkata, in the West Bengal state of India. Founded by Shri. Pranab Kumar Chakraborty in 1990, it is currently headed by CEO, Akashdeep Chakraborty. Zonal Welfare Council works mainly in natural resource development and sustainability, village development, women empowerment, early childhood education and health care, continuing education, and children's welfare. Zonal Welfare Council's main working area is Kolkata and South 24 Parganas districts, Zonal Welfare Council is maintaining and running a free orphanage in South 24 Parganas. Zonal Welfare Council, partnered with LetzChange Foundation, Global Stop TB Team,"
"Convenor of the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, Sir Sigmund Sternberg Women's Human Rights and Empowerment Network Patron: Mrs Cherie Blair President: Professor Julia Häusermann MBE Rights and Humanity Rights and Humanity was founded by Professor Julia Häusermann MBE in 1986. Established as an international not-for-profit association under Swiss law, Rights and Humanity is multi-faith and multi-cultural by philosophy, composition and action. Its premise is that international human rights law and the principles of humanity - the values shared across faiths and cultures - together provide a legal framework and moral compass for global action for progress. Its unique approach"
"Shabnam Hashmi Shabnam Hashmi (born 1957) is an Indian social activist and human rights campaigner. She started her social activism campaigning about adult literacy in 1981. Since 1989 she has spent most of her time in combating communal and fundamentalist forces in India. After the Gujarat riots of 2002, Hashmi changed her focus to grass roots work and has spent a considerable amount of time in Gujarat. In 2003 she was one of the founders of ANHAD (Act Now for Harmony and Democracy),which she administers. it's FCRA license was cancelled based on inputs from intelligence agency for using foreign funding"
"""Violence against Women"" journal. Recipient of many awards including the Bannerman Fellowship, she is on the board of several national organizations. Shamita Das Dasgupta Shamita Das Dasgupta (Bengali : শমীতা দাশ দাশগুপ্ত, born 1949) is an Asian Indian scholar, activist, wife and mother. A social activist since early 1970s, she co-founded Manavi in 1985. It is the first organization of its kind that focuses on violence against South Asian women in the United States. A part-time teacher and full-time community worker, she has written extensively in the areas of ethnicity, gender, immigration, and violence against women. Her books include: ""A"
"Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM),[1], he has been documenting alleged state atrocities upon the people from marginaliged sections of West Bengal. In 2003, Roy was elected to the board of Amnesty International India. Roy is known for fighting against alleged state atrocities, where victims —often among India's poorest citizens— report extrajudicial killings, custodial death, rape, mysterious disappearances, and police torture. Roy documented 118 cases in 2006, 469 in 2007, 210 in 2008[2]. At present, he is the National Convener of the Programme Against Custodial Torture and Impunity (PACTI) of India and is the Secretary of MASUM; the convening organization of"
"forces and state police. Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (MASS) (Assamese মানৱ অধিকাৰ সংগ্ৰাম সমিতি) is a regional non-profit human rights NGO in Assam. It was founded in 1991 by Parag Kumar Das along with a group of intellectuals and journalists of Assam. The present chairman is Ajit Kumar Bhuyan and its headquarters is at Bamunimoidam, Guwahati. The NGO has been working on protection and promotion of human rights both civil and political, human rights education and mass mobilization, resistance and documentation of human rights violations. It also challenges the alleged human rights violations in Assam by"
"India. Sangama (human rights group) Sangama is an LGBT rights groups based in Bangalore, India. At inception in 1999, Sangama acted as a documentation center but it has since grown to become an LGBT rights and HIV prevention NGO that mobilizes against sexual harassment and discrimination and conducts HIV prevention seminars and programmes. The organization works with both sex workers and LGBT persons in Karnataka and Kerala. Sangama was founded in 1999 by Manohar Elavarthi as a center that provided counseling services to sexual minorities and research materials to scholars of LGBT issues in the Bangalore region. The organization hosted"
"Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (MASS) (Assamese মানৱ অধিকাৰ সংগ্ৰাম সমিতি) is a regional non-profit human rights NGO in Assam. It was founded in 1991 by Parag Kumar Das along with a group of intellectuals and journalists of Assam. The present chairman is Ajit Kumar Bhuyan and its headquarters is at Bamunimoidam, Guwahati. The NGO has been working on protection and promotion of human rights both civil and political, human rights education and mass mobilization, resistance and documentation of human rights violations. It also challenges the alleged human rights violations in Assam by the Indian Army, paramilitary"
"Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) is a peasant organisation based in Assam. Formed by the RTI activist Akhil Gogoi in 2005, the organisation works on a diverse range of issues from Public Distribution System (PDS) thefts, non-implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), land rights, governmental and corporate corruption, Right to Information Act (RTI) and construction of big dams in fragile seismic territories of north east India. The organisation came to national lime light after it joined the crusade against corruption under the leadership of Gandhian activist Anna Hazare. However, KMSS broke with India Against"
"an annual report on the human rights situation in Iraq. It looks at what are the violations and who are the violators. The ideal of creating the Hammurabi Human Rights organization first started in mid-2003 after there was a shift in the government of Iraq. Mr. William Warda and Ms. Pascale Warda started the organization in the Nineveh region of Iraq. Their goal was to get activist involved and to try to expand civil society. They saw that there was a lack of security and more acts of human rights violation across Iraq and decided to act. It was not"
"Shaista Shameem Shaista Shameem, a Fijian lawyer of Pakistani descent, was director of the Fiji Human Rights Commission (FHRC) from 2002 to 2007, and its director and chairperson from 2007 to 2009. A graduate of the University of the South Pacific, she holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Waikato and a Masters in Law from the University of Auckland. After working in the media and as a sociology lecturer in New Zealand, Shameen returned to Fiji and was involved in the constitutional case of ""Chandrika Prasad v the State"" which reinstated the 1997 Constitution following the coup"
"Sangama (human rights group) Sangama is an LGBT rights groups based in Bangalore, India. At inception in 1999, Sangama acted as a documentation center but it has since grown to become an LGBT rights and HIV prevention NGO that mobilizes against sexual harassment and discrimination and conducts HIV prevention seminars and programmes. The organization works with both sex workers and LGBT persons in Karnataka and Kerala. Sangama was founded in 1999 by Manohar Elavarthi as a center that provided counseling services to sexual minorities and research materials to scholars of LGBT issues in the Bangalore region. The organization hosted discussions"
"Rafto Memorial Prize for Human Rights along with Parveena Ahanger. Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) is a group of organizations and individuals in Jammu and Kashmir whose main focus of area is human rights in Jammu and Kashmir. It was founded on 20 June 2000. The society consists of individuals like Parvez Imroz (founder and President) and Khurram Parvez, and organisations like Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), Public Commission on Human Rights (PCHR) and the International Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir (IPTK). Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society is a"
"Chander Chhatrapati was yet to be heard. Ram Rahim challenged his rape conviction in the Punjab and Haryana High Courts on 9 October 2017. Ram Rahim has been prosecuted for being involved in enforcing the castration of hundreds of followers; Ram Rahim has denied the charges. On 24 August 2018 he was denied bail by a Panchkula CBI court in the case involving castration of 400 of his followers. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan (born 15 August 1967) is the head of the Indian social group Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) since 1990. ""The Indian Express"" had"
"Mahila Shanti Sena but also held positions such as that of the director of the Institute for Gandhian Studies, Patna, and as the President of the ""Servseva Sangh"". He died on 20 May 2010, in Patna, Bihar, at the age of 97. Acharya Ramamurti Acharya Ramamurti (1913–2010) was an Indian social activist, gandhian, educationist and academic. He headed the review committee of 1990, popularly known as ""Ramamurti Review Committee"", for evaluating the progress of the National Policy on Education of 1986. He was the director of ""Shrambharati"", a non governmental organization, engaged in community development, adhering to Gandhian ideals. The"
"rights. The organisation awards the Rev. M.A. Thomas National Human Rights Award annually. The recipients since 1993 include: Vigil India Movement Vigil India Movement (Vigil India) is a non-governmental organisation based in Bangalore working in the field of human rights in India. Founded in 1977, by Rev. Dr. M.A. Thomas, who also founded the Emmanuel Christian Centre in Bangalore in 1963 and Association of Christian Institutes for Social Concern in Asia. In 1998, Vigil India launched The Institute of Human Rights with Mr. Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah, former Chief Justice of India and former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission."
"Mushtaq Pahalgami Mushtaq Ahmad Magray 'Pahalgami' (born 1981, Pahalgam, District Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, India), President, Himalayan Welfare Organization, Pahalgam is an award-winning social activist and Environmentalist working for the cause of Education, Public health and Environmental Conservation in Pahalgam, Kashmir. Mushtaq Pahalgami has worked closely with many other environmental and social activists in the region, including environment and human rights lawyer Parvez Imroz. Pahalgami is founder and president of the NGO Himalayan Welfare Organization, Pahalgam (HWO), committed to service in the areas of health care, environmental protection and conservation, tourism, education, poverty reduction and alleviation human rights, and preservation"
"Sanskriti Award for Excellence in Journalism 2003 and the People's Union for Civil Liberties Human Rights Journalism Award 2003. She earlier worked as a reporter for The Times of India, Mumbai. Apart from her coverage of the violence in Gujarat, she has also written widely on human rights, environmental and social justice issues. Some of her other coverage focuses on themes such as abuses in juvenile homes, the agriculture crisis and consequent farmer suicides in Vidarbha, environmental issues like industrial pollution, wildlife conservation in the Gir forest, displacement due to SEZs (special economic zones) and other projects, housing and employment"
"and Human and Child Trafficking movement in India. Zonal Welfare Council is a nonprofit that provides shelter, food, clothing and nutrition to the street children and orphans. Zonal Welfare Council Zonal Welfare Council is a grassroots NGO based in Kolkata, in the West Bengal state of India. Founded by Shri. Pranab Kumar Chakraborty in 1990, it is currently headed by CEO, Akashdeep Chakraborty. Zonal Welfare Council works mainly in natural resource development and sustainability, village development, women empowerment, early childhood education and health care, continuing education, and children's welfare. Zonal Welfare Council's main working area is Kolkata and South 24"
"Mukti (organisation) MUKTI ( ""Liberation""), is a registered not-for-profit and socio-economic development trust working in Sunderban and other part of West Bengal, India for making uplift of the grassroots are in penury, social exclusion and myriad discriminations. Mukti is registered under the Government of India Trust Act Section 64. Mukti, which means ""liberation"", was founded in 2003. More than 500 volunteers work in the Sunderban region of India in the areas of health, education, the economy, ecology and culture. Mukti supports and implement various projects across India. Their activities include creating a village sanitation project for villagers and operating several"