Fwd: Please Vote to reconciliation movement against caste system

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Date: Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:38 PM
Subject: Please Vote to reconciliation movement against caste system
To: Gaurav Saigal <gsaigal@gmail.com>

Please Vote to reconciliation movement against caste system

http://www.human-dignity-forum.org/2012/05/lenin-raghuvanshi/

http://www.pvchr.net/2012/05/please-vote-to-reconciliation-movement.html 

Lenin Raghuvanshi Submitted by: Tanweer Ahmed Siddiqui

Tanweer Ahmed Siddiqui · 30.05.2012

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It has been 65 years since India — the largest democracy in the world — attained independence.

Yet, justice for all is still a far cry in the country where the caste system continues to determine political, social, and economic lives of a billion people.

Money and muscle power, together with political string-pulling, often result in denial of justice for the hapless 'have-nots', especially the Dalits (untouchables), ravaged by poverty and illiteracy.

Atrocities and extortion on the Dalits, fake encounters, refusal to register complaints against the well-heeled, arbitrary arrests on false charges, illegal detention and custodial deaths are in commonplace.

In the absence of a modern social audit system, the keepers of the law often unleash a 'police raj', especially in rural India. A crippled National Human Rights Commission and its state subsidiaries with limited re-commendatory control and a dysfunctional Legal Aid System depict a gloomy picture indeed.

In a unique way, Lenin Raghuvanshi, a veteran human rights activist, fighting the case-studies primarily drawn from Uttar Pradesh, registering the highest rate of crime against the Dalits, chronicles how with implicit support from the administration, the Dalits are tortured and subjected to humiliation by the higher castes, like being garlanded with shoes, their faces blackened or being forced to ride an ass; yet, in most of the cases, violence, deaths or custodial tortures that are committed against the marginalised and deprived castes go unrecorded.

Ironically, even after having shed the colonial yoke, its legacy continues in the administrative framework of our independent India marked with widespread corruption which has rendered many government-sponsored schemes in rural India a failure.

Lenin Raghuvanshi, an Ayurvedic physician by profession, has been working for the rights of bonded and child labourers and other marginalised people in Varanasi and eastern part of Uttar Pradesh, India. In 1996, he and his wife Shruti founded People's Vigilance Committee on Human Right (PVCHR), a community-based organisation, to break the closed, feudal hierarchies of conservative slums and villages by building up local institutions and supporting them with a high profile and active human rights network.

He has become the symbol of nonviolent resistance among millions of Dalits fighting for dignity. For his commitment in favour of marginalized people, he has periodically suffered death threats.

Already an Ashoka Fellow, Lenin was the President, United Nations' Youth Organisation (UNYO),Uttar Pradesh (India) Chapter. Lenin's work has been recognised with Gwangju Human Rights Award for 2007. In 2009, in collaboration with the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victim (RCT), Denmark, Lenin developed Testimonial Models for torture survivors in India. City Council of Weimar in Germany selected Lenin Raghuvanshi for the International Human Rights Award for 2010.

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http://www.ashoka.org/fellow/lenin-raghuvanshi

http://www.pvchr.net/2008/12/cv-of-lenin-raghuvanshi-publish-at.html

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