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Ayesha Kidwai

Death in Police Custody

Vol - XLVIII No. 16, April 20, 2013 | Ranjeeta Dutta, Ayesha Kidwai, Anirban Kundu, Abhijit Kundu, Pradip K Mahapatra, Shaswati Mazumdar, Surajit Mazumdar, Mritiunjoy Mohanty, Debi Prasad Mishra, Ishita Mukhopadhyay, Sushil Khanna, Dipak Kesh, Guruprasad Kar, Sanjukta Ganguly, Kuntal Ghosh, Aditi Ghosh, Aurnab Ghose, Asimananda Goswami, Biswajit Haldar, Arun Jana, Debnarayan Jana, Abdul Kafi, Surajit Mukhopadhyay, Maitreyee Nandy, Amitava Pal, Pranab Sarkar, Sukhendu Sekhar Sarkar, Bhupen Sarmah, Sucharita Sen, Sharmistha Sen, Jayeeta Sharma, Anup Sinha, Rajyeswar Sinha, Janaky Sreedharan, Maitreyee Saha Sarkar, Himansu Charan Sadangi, Jyoti Sabharwal, Debabrata Pal, Parthapratim Pal, Subrata Pal, Rajni Palriwala, Archana Prasad, M Rajivlochan, V K Ramachandran, Manas Ray, Rahul Roy, Vamsi Vakulabharanam., Parthiba Basu, Sudipta Bandyopadhyay, Arindam Banerjee, Taposik Banerjee, Sharmistha Banerjee, Sumit Kumar Baruya, Channa Basavaiah, Padmanava Basu, Saumyajit Bhattacharya, Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bijay Bal, G Arunima, S Anandhi, Gautam Gangopadhyay, Selvyn Jussy, Gautam Gupta, Indraneel dasgupta, Binayak Dutta-Roy, Subimal Sen, Ratan Khasnobis, Dinesh Abrol, Indu Agnihotri, Sudipta Bhattacharya, Abhijit Bhattacharya, Dwaipayan Bhattacharya, Shibani Chaudhury, Chirashree Dasgupta, Samantak Das, Kandarpa Das, Surajit Das, Jayati Das, Sumangala Damodaran, Malabika Das Gupta, Anindya Datta, Arijit Chaudhuri, Suchetana Chattopadhyay, Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay, Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya, Kaushik Bhattacharya, Saswata Bhattacharya, Kamales Bhaumik, Parthasarathi Bhaumik, Kaberi Chakraborty, Satyabrata Chakraborty, Amitava Chakraborty, Mahalaya Chatterjee, and Shantanu De Roy

We have watched with disgust and horror the brutal police assault on students during a peaceful demonstration organised by four Left students’ organisations on 2 April 2013 in Kolkata and the subsequent death of Sudipta Gupta, a participant in the demonstration, while in police custody. Sudipta was a bright student and a leading activist of the Students Federation of India. We are shocked to see the chief minister of the state absolve the police of any responsibility for Sudipta’s death even before a proper enquiry had been initiated.

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: the Verma Committee and After

Vol - XLVIII No. 06, February 09, 2013 | Ayesha Kidwai

The committee of inquiry headed by justice Verma is a landmark for the way in which it has inscribed into the very foundations of law, the equality and liberty of India’s women citizens. To uphold the constitutional guarantees afforded to women, it is essential that the rights given to working women in the Vishaka judgment (also delivered by justice Verma) are not elided or compromised, either by the Government’s Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill, 2012 or by the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance 2013.

Boycott Collaboration with Israeli Academic Institutions

Vol - XLVII No. 31, August 04, 2012 | Upendra Baxi, Mohan Rao, Gargi Sen and The Indian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and Ayesha Kidwai

We, a group of academics, activists and artists in India, came together in June 2010 to campaign against yet another apartheid regime by extending support to the international campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel.