11.09.2006 - Source: BBC News

Roman Catholic schools in the Northern part of the country remained shut; Hindu activists accuse one school of trying to convert students to Christianity ("Row over Lucknow Catholic schools") [ID 17701]

Document(s): Open document

11.01.2006 - Source: Human Rights Watch

Lucknow: Arrests of 4 gay men for engaging in "unnatural sex" and operating a "gay racket" on the internet ("India: Repeal Colonial-Era Sodomy Law") [#41562],  [ID 7672]

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18.10.2005 - Source: BBC News

Uttar Pradesh: 8 people killed and 36 injured after clashes broke out between Hindus and Muslims following dispute during Hindu festival in Mau; local legislator and some other local leaders affiliated to Bharatiya Janata Party were accused of inciting religious clashes ("Criminal cases in religious riot") [#37864],  [ID 7673]

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08.2005 - Source: Freedom House

Annual survey of political rights and civil liberties 2004 ("Freedom in the World 2005") [#41316],  [ID 7674]

"[...]Police routinely torture or otherwise ill-treat suspects to extract confessions or bribes. Custodial rape of female detainees continues to be a problem, as does routine abuse of ordinary prisoners, particularly minorities and members of the lower castes. Police brutality appears to be especially prevalent in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which has high levels of custodial deaths and extrajudicial executions, according to a 2003 briefing paper released by the New Delhi - based Human Rights Documentation Centre. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), whose profile has grown since its creation in 1993, is headed by a retired Supreme Court judge and handles roughly 75,000 complaints each year. [...]
Police, army, and paramilitary forces continue to be implicated in disappearances, extrajudicial killing, rape, torture, arbitrary detention, and destruction of homes, particularly in the context of insurgencies in Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, and several other northeastern states.[...]"

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10.2004 - Source: UK Home Office

Gender discrimination ("Country Report - October 2004") [#28325],  [ID 7675]

"[...]6.281 AI further report that gender discrimination is a problem within many communities, caste and land rights impact on political, social and economic relationships. In Uttar Pradesh political parties representing dalit and lower-caste communities have played a role in empowering some of these groups in some areas.[3e](p6) Despite many positive developments in securing women’s human rights, patriarchy continues to be embedded in the social system in many parts of India.[3e](p5) [...]"

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25.02.2004 - Source: US Department of State

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2003 ("Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2003") [#19765],  [ID 7676]

"[...]From 2002 until year's end, the NHRC recorded 68,776 complaints, more than 50 percent of which were from the state of Uttar Pradesh. Approximately 54,013 of these 68,776 were dismissed or disposed.
[...]"

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25.02.2004 - Source: US Department of State

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2003 ("Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2003") [#19765],  [ID 7677]

"[...]The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) asked the Uttar Pradesh government to pay $10,000 (500,000 Rs) to the family of Dr. Sonali Bose, a graduate student shot by the police in July 2002 in an alleged case of mistaken identity. [...]

[...] Intercaste violence claimed hundreds of lives; it was especially pronounced in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh. [...]"

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25.02.2004 - Source: US Department of State

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2003 ("Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2003") [#19765],  [ID 7678]

"[...]In addition to these state human rights commissions, special courts to hear human rights cases were established in Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh. However, the courts in Uttar Pradesh did not function, despite a 1999 court order that they be reactivated. [...]"

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25.02.2004 - Source: US Department of State

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2003 ("Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2003") [#19765],  [ID 7679]

"[...]The Constitution prohibits discrimination on the basis of a person's race, sex, religion, place of birth, or social status and government authorities worked to enforce these provisions with varying degrees of success. Despite laws designed to prevent discrimination, social and cultural practices as well as other legislation had a profound discriminatory impact, and discrimination against women, persons with disabilities, indigenous people, and national, racial, and ethnic minorities was a problem. The traditional caste system, as well as differences of ethnicity, religion, and language, deeply divide society. According to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, caste clashes were frequent in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Tamil Nadu. [...]"

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25.02.2004 - Source: US Department of State

USDOS: Child labour ("Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2003") [#19765],  [ID 7680]

"[...]Bonded child labor in silk twining factories was a problem. The labor commissioner estimated that there were 3,000 bonded child laborers in the Magadi silk twining factories. In January, HRW traveled to the country to investigate reported use of child slaves in the silk industry. HRW interviewed children in three states, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu, and found that production of silk thread still depended on bonded children. The report said, "At every stage of the silk industry, bonded children as young as 5 years old work 12 or more hours a day, six and a half or 7 days a week. Children making silk thread dip their hands in boiling water that burns and blisters them. They breathe smoke and fumes from machinery, handle dead worms that cause infections, and guide twisting threads that cut their fingers. By the time they reach adulthood, they are improvised, illiterate, and often crippled by the work."
[...]"

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01.01.2004 - Source: Asian Centre for Human Rights

Analysis of the POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) judgement and POTA Amendment Bill 2003 ("Interpreters of the Draconian: An analysis of the POTA judgement and POTA Amendment Bill 2003 (ACHRF/01/2004)") [#18832],  [ID 7681]

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08.10.2003 - Source: BBC News

Uttar Pradesh: A crowd of about 2,000 people in the northern Indian city of Varanasi gathered to throw stones at the home of a woman whose partner was arrested after she accused him of harassment ("Crowd stones home of Indian 'wife'") [#16602],  [ID 7682]

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17.04.2002 - Source: Reporters Sans Frontières

Uttar Pradesh: Crime reporter killed/ another journalist injured by police during the protest of journalists over the murder of their collegue ("Journalist murdered in Uttar Pradesh") [#6544],  [ID 7683]

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06.11.2001 - Source: World Organisation Against Torture

Uttar Pradesh: 3 brothers arrested and allegedly subjected to severe forms of torture, one of them died ("India : arbitrary arrests and torture of three brothers, one of whom subsequently died, in Lucknow [Case IND 061101]") [#4532],  [ID 7684]

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08.05.2001 - Source: Amnesty International

Uttar Pradesh: Background information about the vulnerability of certain groups of women to violence in the context of gender as well as caste and other forms of social and racial discrimination ("The battle against fear and discrimination, The impact of violence against women in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan") [#1578],  [ID 7685]

Document(s): www_amnesty_org India The battle against fear and discrimination The impact of violence against women in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.htm