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Wednesday, Dec 14, 2005

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"Workers' rights being violated"

Staff Correspondent

NEW DELHI: The increase in human rights violations in the name of foreign and Indian capital was highlighted at a meeting held here on Tuesday. Speakers at the tenth annual meeting of Champa, the Amiya and B.G. Rao Foundation, held discussions on `Privatisation, Multinational Corporations and People's Struggles.'

Addressing the meeting, Nagraj Adve of Workers Solidarity and Ranjana Padhi of Saheli said State repression had eased the path for foreign and Indian capital in factories. The attack on Honda workers in Gurgaon and on labourers in the aluminium mines in Orissa was a repercussion of this. The speakers were concerned that the Government's Commission of Inquiry into the attack on Honda workers would provide little evidence of the role the State played in the violence against the workers.

N.D. Pancholi, lawyer and convenor of Champa Foundation outlined the role the judiciary had played in the gradual erosion of the basic rights of workers.

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