Sapana Chaurasiya nominated for Hindustan Times woman 2013. It is a request to the people residing in Uttar Pradesh please vote to her by sending SMS HTW 51(HTW space 51) at 54242 by your mobile. People outside Uttar Pradesh please email in her support to Ms.Sunita Aron,Resident editor:Hindustan Times at her email number: saron@hindustantimes.com
Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights is concerned about the death by hanging of Mr. Suresh Chuahan & Mr. Ramji Chauhan of Varanasi under section 302, 307 and 449. This is MERCY PETITION to the President of India to save the lives of these two people. Please write to the Hon’ble President of India (presidentofindia@rb.nic.in) and also ask your friends & colleagues to do so.
http://www.pvchr.net/2013/03/life-of-poor-people-is-waiting-mercy.html
On the eve of
international women day PVCHR is delighted to share the video “The Man In The
Guava Tree: A Story on Media Ethics and Global Responsibility” http://vimeo.com/59711847.
One of founder of PVCHR Shruti read the story published in media and she immediately
doubt on patriarchal manipulation from local media people. After she shared the
story and her doubt to the activist of PVCHR.
Immediately the activist went to verify the
information and talked with Sanjay his mother Kushma Devi and also with Sanjay
Sister Nisha.
After knowing the one side fact the activist went
to meet with Sanjay’s wife Tara. She said that I was a branded as a witch and
they asked me to leave the house along with children and they dragged me out. I
started crying and asked my mother in law that where I would go with children.
My sister in law said there was no space for evil spirits inside the house.
I had to spent days without food and whenever I got
something I shared it with my children. One day my sister in law dragged me on
road from near the house and I came to my mother’s house with children. Upset
and in tension my husband climbed up a Guava tree.
I don’t want my husband to climb down the tree
which he is living on due to my mother in law and my sister in law. I don’t
want to stay with my in laws and once my husband gets down I will bring him to
my parents house. My children are crying for their father and I am crying for
my husband. Until I am able to live with my husband and children I will not get
relief. I fear what my husband might be eating and when I try to eat something I
cry.
But it is mostly a story about the media's chase
for news with a sensational value of patriarchal mind set at the expense of the
truth-value to whom Sanjay and his wife Tara fell victims.
But without knowing the fact few media published
“Man lives in tree for nine months - and won't come down until wife says sorry
for cheating on him.” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250695/Man-lives-tree-months--wont-come-wife-says-sorry-cheating-him.html
Cuckolded Indian man lives in tree for nine months
waiting for apologyhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9755653/Cuckolded-Indian-man-lives-in-tree-for-nine-months-waiting-for-apology.html
During that time an volunteer Ms. Sofie Rordam from
Denmark was in PVCHR for technical assistance in corporation with Dignity :
danish Institue against torture.She went along with activists and prepared the
documentary. Please watch the story and fight back patriarchy in India in
particulars and in world in general.
