Low-Caste Women Forced to Clean Human Waste in India

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Low-Caste Women Forced to Clean Human Waste in India

January 26, 2015January 27, 2015 RMN News Caste, Human Rights, Human Waste, India, Women

Women who clean dry toilets in rural areas often are not paid cash wages, but instead receive leftover food, grain

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Protests in India

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President Barack Obama Not Welcomed in India

January 24, 2015January 26, 2015 RMN News Barack Obama, India, Michelle Obama, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister

The U.S. President Barack Obama may be coming under the title of a chief guest in India, most are not

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The Politburo’s Predicament

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Repression in China Growing at Cost to Party Power

January 22, 2015January 24, 2015 RMN News China, Communist, Freedom House, Human Rights, Repression

Chinese Communist Party repression has intensified under the leadership of Xi Jinping, but has also trapped the party in a

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Protests in India

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Left Parties to Protest Against President Obama’s Visit in India

January 12, 2015January 13, 2015 RMN News Barack Obama, Hindu, Human Rights, India, Iraq, Libya, Narendra Modi, Protest, Syria

Six Left parties in India – the CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML)-Liberation, AIFB, SUCI(C) and RSP – have planned to protest against

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Cost of the Freedom of Expression: Death

January 12, 2015January 13, 2015 RMN News Charlie Hebdo, Cost, Death, Expression, Freedom, Rakesh Raman

Those who seek extreme freedom of speech are faced with extreme violence which usually amounts to death. By Rakesh Raman

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In the picture above: A room in the Dariyakhan Ghummat relief camp in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) housing over 50 women and children in 2002. The camp held 5,100 people and is one of approximately one hundred relief camps in Gujarat, where 98,000 people, a great majority of them Muslim, have been displaced by the violence. Photo courtesy: Smita Narula / Human Rights Watch

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Hindu Rulers in India Irk the Muslims, Again

January 4, 2015January 6, 2015 RMN News BJP, Gujarat, Hindu, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, India, Muslims, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, Rakesh Raman, Rulers

As BJP and Narendra Modi are hell-bent to make India a Hindu Rashtra (a nation only for Hindus), they have

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