Donation Appeal for Research Project on Corruption in India

As I am working alone on this project, I need your financial support in the form of a donation so that I could complete this project without any hindrance.

I am a national award-winning journalist and founder of the humanitarian organization RMN Foundation in New Delhi, India.

I run various anti-corruption campaigns and also publish an international magazine The Integrity Bulletin that covers corruption-related news and issues.

After publishing the India Corruption Research Report 2022 (ICRR 2022) in October 2022, I am in the process of compiling the 2023 edition of the research report. As I am working alone on this project, I need your financial support in the form of a donation so that I could complete this project without any hindrance.

I have provided the concept note on this project and the link of the PDF document of ICRR 2022. You can click here to know about the project as well as donation details. You may please contact me if you have any query.

You can click here to donate online. Request for an early response.

Thank you.

Rakesh Raman

Council of Europe Urges Member States to Implement Human Rights Judgments

The report shows that 2,352 (38%) of the cases pending at the end of last year concerned the Russian Federation.

The Secretary General of the 46-nation Council of Europe (CoE), Marija Pejčinović

Burić, has urged member states to show increased political will to implement judgments from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), and to improve their capacity for doing so.

“Complying with court rulings is essential to the rule of law. Over the years, our member states have made consistent progress in putting the European Court’s judgments into practice, but the Court is now dealing with more and more cases of increasing complexity,” said the Secretary General.

“Across Europe, the human rights convention has progressively changed people’s lives for the better. In order for this positive impact to continue, our member states must demonstrate the political will to implement judgments fully and consistently.”

According to the latest annual report from the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers on the execution of ECHR judgments, 1,459 new cases were transferred by the European Court to the Committee of Ministers, which supervises their implementation by member states, in 2022. A total of 880 cases were closed during the year, including 200 ‘leading’ cases requiring specific and often wide-ranging measures by member states to prevent similar violations happening again. Some 6,112 cases had yet to be fully implemented by the end of 2022, including 1,299 leading cases.

The report shows that 2,352 (38%) of the cases pending at the end of last year concerned the Russian Federation, which was excluded from the Council of Europe on 16 March 2022 due to its aggression against Ukraine. Russia ceased being a party to the European Convention on Human Rights six months later but remains obliged, under international law, to implement rulings from the European Court.

According to a CoE statement of April 6, Russia’s war of aggression also affected Ukraine’s capacity to implement the Court’s judgments in 2022. Nevertheless, Ukraine made significant progress during the year, in addition to the ratification of the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention on violence against women, underlining its commitment to the ECHR system in extremely difficult circumstances. The implementation of judgments from the European Court of Human Rights is expected to be an important theme of the Council of Europe Summit of Heads of State and Government, which will take place in Reykjavik on 16 and 17 May 2023. Courtesy: CoE

Situation in Ukraine = Situation in India

While Russia has invaded Ukraine, China has invaded India. Therefore, both the countries are facing the same predicament But there is a marked difference in response Ukraine's bold President Volodymyr Zelensky has decided to fight against the Russian forces

But the timid and illiterate prime minister of India Narendra Modi has decided to surrender before the Chinese soldiers who have occupied large swathes of Indian territory Reports suggest that despite more than a dozen rounds of military talks, the Chinese have not withdrawn from several Indian areas that they illegally occupy after breaching the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh

Therefore, as an anti-national politician, Modi is working against the interests of Indians, and there is a possibility that he is secretly selling Indian land to China

Crime, Corruption, and Impunity in India

Politicians, bureaucrats, police, and judges have formed a criminal gang in India. The following cases depict how they collude with criminals and commit crimes and corruption with impunity while the ordinary citizens are suffering. Click the following links for details.

UN Petition on Punjab Unrest RCS-EOW Case

Cabinet Secretariat Case

Prime Minister Office (PMO) Case

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Case

Delhi Lokayukta Case

DoPT Case CBI Case

Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Case Supreme Court Case

Delhi Govt Case Delhi Petitions Committee / CVC Case

NHRC Case Petition on School Education

Environmental Crime Case Lokpal Removal Case

Judicial Corruption Case

RCS Corruption Case

AAP Corruption Case Widehouse Scandal

NHRC Case at UN HRC IAS Group Corruption Case

CPGRAMS Cases PGMS Cases

IAS Corruption Record UNCAC Petition

Delhi Police Case DoPT Processes

RCS RTI Violations DDA Corruption Case

Petitions and Representations by Rakesh Raman. Up to March 2023

UN Appeal to Protect Human Rights in Punjab

During the past few days, the police and security forces have arrested and imprisoned hundreds of Sikhs arbitrarily without giving them the opportunity to defend themselves. I sent the following petition to the UN office and some other international authorities.

To March 24, 2023

Mr. António Guterres

United Nations Secretary-General

United States

Subject: Case of Arbitrary Deprivation of Liberty, Human Rights Violations, and Ethnic Cleansing in Punjab, India.

Dear Mr. António Guterres,

I am a national award-winning journalist, social activist, and human rights defender based in New Delhi, India. Today, I have sent a petition (reproduced below) to Mr. Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for his immediate intervention to protect the human rights of people in Punjab.

These people who mostly belong to the Sikh religion are facing extreme persecution and threats by the current Punjab Government in collusion with the Central government of India. During the past few days, the police and security forces have arrested and imprisoned hundreds of Sikhs arbitrarily without giving them the opportunity to defend themselves.

Internet services have been shut down in most parts of Punjab and local citizens who want to protest peacefully to get the arbitrarily arrested people released are facing severe police brutality and false police cases filed against them. The police are randomly searching the houses of residents and terrorizing them in order to suppress their voice against the state atrocities.

Although I have sent my petition (given below) to the UN Human Rights chief Mr. Volker Türk, I request you to take up this case on an urgent basis so that peopleincluding men, women, children, and senior citizens - who need immediate assistance could be saved from persecution and harassment perpetrated by police and state administration.

You can click here to read the full petition. Request for immediate response.

Thank you.

Rakesh Raman

Editorial Note: In all autocratic regimes that work under the garb of democratic systems, the rulers silently use complicit courts to impose their own decisions on citizens and opponents to suppress all kinds of dissent.

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