Gunjan Das

Sep 8, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Soumyanetra Munshi |Mohit Ranadip |Gunjan Das |Vidyarthy Chatterjee

PUDR opposes the passage of The Aparajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024, which amends the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, in their application to West Bengal.

Sep 6, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Soumyanetra Munshi |Mohit Ranadip |Gunjan Das |Vidyarthy Chatterjee

These are very strange days – I have fractured a bone in my foot and am largely confined to a chair at home, with the TV switched on for a large part of the day. But most of the time, I am actually walking in my mind with the countless faces that have taken to the streets these days in Kolkata, wanting justice for the horrific rape and murder of a young trainee doctor at a government hospital.

Sep 6, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Gunjan Das |Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Swati Shikha |Mohit Ranadip

About two weeks ago, sitting in a State Government administrative building in Kolkata and discussing about the gruesome rape and murder of a Postgraduate Trainee Doctor at R G Kar Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata, Anamika Gupta (name changed) looked disturbed when she said, “I stay at this Office till around 8 it in the night to complete my work. During COVID days when the office premises were almost empty, we were here till late hours at at night without feeling that I am unsafe.

Aug 30, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Gunjan Das |Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Swati Shikha |Arun Mitra

A step backwards for Human Rights,Ensure fool proof investigation, competent prosecution and prevent acquittals, Ensure safety mechanisms in the workplace for women. PUCL condemns the proposal by the Mamata Banerjee government to amend the law to provide for death penalty for convicted rapists.

Aug 29, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Andre Damon |Abba Solomon |Stephen Semler |Gunjan Das

Israel has launched a new phase of its ethnic cleansing operation in Palestine targeting the West Bank. On Tuesday and Wednesday, hundreds of Israeli troops, along with armored vehicles and bulldozers, supported by drones and helicopters, launched the largest raid into the occupied West Bank in two decades, targeting the cities and camps of Jenin, Tubas and Tulkarem.