An Appeal to Citizens throughout the World as Equal Partners.
Cause for Concern
- THE INDIAN EXPRESS dated November 21, 2024/ 573220 total prisoners of which 434302 (75.8%) are under trials against whom cases are still pending
- THE INDIAN EXPRESS dated November 02, 2024/ 17000 children in the 7 – 18 age group are in institutional care without a home to go to.
- Murder, rape and physical violence and abuse in a market place is the most common happening in India today and bothers no one till it is election time.
What is evident from the above is that the concept of social justice has been wiped off the slate. India has sworn to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 (UN SDG 2030) but the facts speak otherwise. Children and women in India continue to be among the most abused and deprived according to the standards laid down by the United Nations.
This open platform being hosted by ASJ will continue to document the facts as they surface in the Courts of Justice without any views or comments – just news as is publishd in the public domain.
There is no end to the host of reform, legislation and laws being articulated by parliament but unfortunately, we discover at our misery and cost, are all paper laws and make no difference at the ground level – the grass root levels and the underserved remain as violated, brutalised as ever.
MEANINGFUL INTERVENTION
UN SDG 2030 – Leaving No-one Behind
We at ADVOCACY FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE (ASJ) are actively involved in appointing of grassroots level senior professionals for the Senior Citizens Council of Professionals for Justice (SCCPJ) to achieve the most important aspect of international development in regard to Social Justice.
The senior citizen’s council will not be composed of the moneyed prominent social elite groups with political affiliation but by school and college teachers, technical professionals, doctors, lawyers and grandparents working in the smaller villages and district towns who have experience but remain unseen and unheard – simply ignored as people who have outlived their usefulness.
Responsibilities of our Elected Office Bearers and Coordinators
- Regular bi-monthly Meeting to pinpoint priority problems in the area.
- To follow-up and report on every case of abuse of authority and to bring them to the courts for justice.
- To report on child abuse and violence faced by children and the involvement of people with poor background knowledge of school education and Human Psychology.
- To comprehend the challenges and appointing a ‘People’s Council of Teaching Professionals’ as a duly appointed community authority to take action in collaboration and equal status with the police and government correctional homes.
- Government Census is without a purpose if it does not record people living alone; ASJ prioritises people living alone and victims of accident due to impaired movements to ensure that justice does not elude them due to lowered earning sources and other areas of daily living necessitating extra support.
- More than 150,000 people are injured in road accidents in India every one of which is recorded in a court of law like a robot. However, did the victims and their families receive the due compensations and correctional support or, was it all cornered by middlemen and dalals.
- What happened to women with disability? Where did they disappear?
- Status of senior citizens – and the number of women senior citizens being thrashed.
- Domestic violence and violence between intimate live-in partners.
As is evident, the list of growing injustice is now beyond correction – so let us all collaborate, hold hands and start from wherever we are in the spirit of a People’s Movement – Advocacy for Social Justice – Senior Citizens Council of Professionals for Justice (SCCPJ), a genuine people’s Trust Fund duly managed, sanctioned and audited by the people themselves at a people’s Panchayat.
Following on the heels of the Senior Citizens Council of Professionals for Justice (SCCPJ) also designated the General body of ASJ State Presidents, ASJ Convenors and ASJ Research and Documentation Coordinators from the District level courts moving upward to the ASJ State and National level committees all duly elected by the General Body and the Executive Committee to clear instances of victims of official apathy and lack of concern shamelessly depriving a vast majority of their Rights and Entitlements.
The list of these excluded segment seem to be growing along with brutalisation, abuse and exclusion of the vulnerable by the hour at an alarming rate reflecting a poor level of respect for the law enforcement agencies at the ground level.
aurobindo
ADVOCACY FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
