Defending human dignity in a country with strict foreign agent laws

PH-I Against The Odds by Anna Rottenecker

Episode notes

In this episode, we would like to explore the possibilities and opportunities to defend fundamental human rights and human dignity in a country that has imposed a strict foreign agent law on its civil society. India has introduced the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) in 1976 and since then continuously tightened the regulation, the last important one ones in 2020. Madhurima Dhanuka, the former Programs Head of the Prisons Reform Program of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in India and currently consulting the India Justice Report on all issues around the criminal justice system and legal aid in India, will talk us through the consequences of the tightened FCRA regulations on the Indian civil society sector, where the sector got it all wrong and how to move forward.

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