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Dr. Rosa Freedman on Politicisation of Human Rights in an Interview with Mark Ulyseas www.liveencounters.net March 2014 Free online magazine from village earth dr. rosa freedman on politicisation of human rights in an interview with mark ulyseas 2014 march © www.liveencounters.net March 2014 Support Live Encounters. Donate Now and keep the Magazine alive in 2014! Live Encounters is a not-for-profit free online magazine that was started in 2009 in Bali, Indonesia. It showcases some of the best writing from around the world. Civil and human rights activists, animal rights activists, poets, writers, journalists, social workers and more have contributed their time and knowledge for the benefit of the readers of the magazine. We are appealing for donations to pay for the administrative and technical aspects of the publication. Please help spread the free distribution of knowledge with any amount that you feel you want to give for this just cause. 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Lakshmi, a temple elephant - Photograph Mark Ulyseas Cover photograph of orangutan/Mark Ulyseas © www.liveencounters.net march 2014 2014 march © www.liveencounters.net @ © www.liveencounters.net march 2014 M A R K U L Y S E A S March 2014 Investigations by India’s National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, the National Human Rights Commission, the National Police Commission, and numerous local nongovernmental organizations all concur that impunity is rampant. -‘BROKEN PEOPLE: Caste Violence Against India’s Untouchables’, Human Rights Watch report “The Hindu Social Order is based on the principles of graded inequality, fixity of occupation and The Caste System and Human Rights fixation of people within their respective castes. Society at large remains exploitative, unfair and In the 21st century how can India solve the problem of the continuing atrocities against lower criminally unjust to them. caste Hindus by upper caste Hindus? The caste-Hindus observe untouchability because their religion enjoins them to do so. If he is ruthless And how does one change the mindset when the caste system is an integral part of Hinduism? and lawless in putting down the untouchable rising against the established order, it is because their religion not only tells them that the established order is divine and sacrosanct but also imposes Here is a complaint filed by an NGO with the National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi, India. upon them a duty to see that this established order is maintained by all possible means. If they LINKThe National Human Rights Commission has taken cognizance of a complaint filed by an NGO do not listen to the call of humanity, it is because their religion does not enjoin them to treat un- that caste-based discrimination, sexual exploitation and untouchability are widespread in the touchables as human beings. Bundelkhand area of UP, which is very backward. The demography of the region shows that 53% are OBC, 25% Scheduled Castes/Dalits, 10% tribals and 12% Thakur and Brahmins who own land They do not feel any qualms of conscience in assaulting, looting, burning and other acts of atrocities and dominate others. against the untouchables, because their religion teaches them that nothing is sin, which is done in defence of social order. The report alleged that a Dalit has to take off his shoes and hold it in his hand when a Thakur approaches him. He has to do so while visiting a locality of upper caste people. The women of the The Hindu social order degenerated into an instrument of exploitation, tyranny and oppression. It Balmiki community manually scavenge night-soil and the carcasses of dead animals. This practice tended to perpetuate inequality and inhumanity and developed the spirit of separatism, hatred and is prevalent in several villages of District Lalitpur. Violence against women is rampant and during enmity, low and high”. (Radhakrishnan, The Hindu View of Life). the last few years, a number of Sati deaths were reported. The sex-ratio is very skewed and women are sold to repay debts. LINK There are laws in force that protect the rights of the lower caste Hindus. But the scourge continues unabated in the the rural areas of India. With the General Elections due in a few months one will Sadly this is just one of the many instances of caste violence and discrimination that is reported witness once again the charade of caste politics played out to garner the votes. And when the dust across the country by the national media. Curiously, India’s largest English language newspaper, settles, when the votes are counted and the winners and losers announced, the dispossessed The Times of India, publishes a weekly matrimonial section under caste and religion. Does this will be forgotten. The discrimination, beatings, rape, slavery will continue in earnest for the Social mean that the Indian media is promoting the caste system or is it just about the bottom line... Order must be enforced in the rural areas by the self appointed guardians of the caste sytem profit? who do not represent millions of devout Hindus but whose actions resonate across the country. The Constitution of India guarantees the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity for every“A Nothing will change. Nothing can change until such time the mindset changes and this will not citizenShudra ofcan’t India. be calledUnfortunately a Brahmin for even the lower if he possesses caste Hindus all the in qualities rural areas of a across Brahmin the bysub-continent inheritance. happen until all right thinking Hindus decide to put an end to this despicable form of discrimination. thisHe should is a distant never claimdream. his In right fact otherit was than Mahatma the Varna Gandhi in which who famouslyhe was born. defended This is thean evidencesystem: of his being humble.” Young India (11-24-27) Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om © Mark Ulyseas © www.liveencounters.net march 2014 01 March 2014 2014 march © www.liveencounters.net C O N T R I B U T O R S Click on title of article to go to page March 2014 Politicisation of Human Rights A New Science of Economics? Dr. Rosa Freedman Dr. Ivo Coelho Coelho earned his PhD in philosophy from the Gregorian University, Rome. He is Reader Freedman teaches International Human Rights at the University of Birmingham and in Gnoseology and Metaphysics at Divyadaan: Salesian Institute of Philosophy, Nashik, is a member of the English Bar. She has published articles in, amongst others, the India, and editor of Divyadaan: Journal of Philosophy and Education. Born in 1958 at Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights and the International Journal of Human Mumbai, he specialized in the hermeneutical thought of the Canadian philosopher, Rights.www.rosafreedman.com She previously taught at Queen Mary’s, University of London and has worked theologian and economist Bernard www.divyadaan.inLonergan. He is the author of Hermeneutics and for various NGOs. She also writes regularly for the Guardian and the Huffington Post. Method: The ‘Universal Viewpoint’ in Bernard Lonergan and editor of Brahman and The reality of overcrowded prisons... It’sPerson: my Essays right by Richard to offend. De Smet. How dare you be offended! Anita Mackay, Monash University Vandana Vasudevan - Anita is a PhD scholar at Monash University and a former visitor to the Centre for In ternational Justice and Governance. Anita’s thesis compares prisons operating under- a human rights framework with prisons operating according to restorative justice principles. She is conducting this research under the supervision of Associate Pro Vasudevan studied economics at Lady Shri Ram College (Delhi University) and fessor Bronwyn Naylor and Dr JulieRegarding Debeljak. Rights Anita is also employed as a research trainedwww.sagepub.in in management at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She is assistant on an ARC grant about the application of human rights legislation in closed author of the newly released book “Urban Villager:Life in an Indian Satellite Town.” Rescuingenvironments. First Railway published in Children The Many Faces of God’s Military Lion Malcolm Harper and Dr. Lalitha Iyer Natalie Wood Malcolm Harper is an independent consultant educated at Oxford, Harvard and Nairobi- Born in Birmingham, England, U.K., Natalie Wood began working in journalism a month prior to Universities. He first worked in marketing in England, and then taughtLalitha at the University Iyer is an outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. She remained in regional Jewish journalism for over 20 years, leaving full-time writing to help run a family business and then completed of Nairobi. He was Professor of Enterprise Development at Cranfield School of Manage Smith Magazine’s new Six Word Memoirs On ment, and since 1995 he has worked independently, mainly in India. a range of general office work. Wood and her husband, Brian Fink emigrated from ManchesterJewish Life and to Israel in March 2010Technorati, and live Blogcriticsin Karmiel, Galileeand Live where Encounters she continues magazine to work, independent researcher and social consultant. She began her career in the banking stories - Website Website sector, joining SBI in 1976. In 1998 she headedwww.sagepub.in Vidyaranya, a leading school in Hyderabad. concentrating on creative writing. She features in Since 2001 she has been a researcher and consultant in the social development sector. contributes to . Her PresentlySo Much she is Chairperson Depends of Sathi.
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