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Dr.
Pushkar Raj
Location
B 117 II Floor
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
New Delhi 110017
Telephone Nos.
011-2652-8152, 2685-0523
Email: raajpushkar@gmail.com
rajpushkar@lokniti.org |
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Pushkar Raj is Programme Officer with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) , an International Human Rights Organisation engaged in practical realization of human rights in commonwealth countries. He has taught Political Science in Delhi University for about five years. Dr. Raj has actively been associated with civil society groups that are engaged in participatory action centric research, protection and advocacy of human rights in the country. He was part of an observer team of the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi to observe the elections in Jammu and Kashmir in Sep-Oct 2002. He has been part of various campaigns. These have included: campaigns for the repeal of repressive laws like TADA, POTA and the Anti-Begging Law, campaigns supporting the right to Information, Food, Employment and Development. At present Dr. Raj is the National General Secretary of a well-known Civil Liberties’ Organisation ` People's Union for Civil Liberties’ (PUCL). He edits its monthly journal on human rights `PUCL Bulletin’. He has been associated with the Lokniti since August 2003 and has served as the state coordinator of Delhi in the post poll surveys for Delhi in the National Study in 2004. He has been recipient of Erasmus- Mundus Fellowship on Human Rights of European Union for the year 2008-9.
Research Interests:
Dr. Raj's main areas of interest include political institutions, democracy, governance, status of minorities in multi-cultural societies and human rights. His main focus is to highlighting the state of human rights of the minorities, deprived and marginalised in society through the method of survey research so as to contribute inputs that might be useful in policy formation and institutional building. Presently he is engaged in promoting police reform initiatives in the country in form of diversity, accountability and professionalism in the police service through research and advocacy efforts.
Selected Publications:
Articles in Professional / Refereed journals
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Benefiting from Two-Layered Incumbency, Economic and Political Weekly, Dec 18-24, 2004. |
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Politics and Literature in Africa, Indian Journal of African Studies, Vol. X, Nos. 1 and 2 1999. |
Monographs, Reports and Occasional Papers
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Criminalizing Poverty: Houseless and Anti-Begging Law in Delhi, PUCL Bulletin, New Delhi, Jan 2005. |
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With Sanjay Kumar, Democracy's Marginal Citizens: Houseless in Delhi, Paper presented at a National Seminar organized by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, 18-19 Nov. 2004. |
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Mindset of the Middle Class: A Case Study of Delhi, Paper presented at the Institute of Social Sciences, (ISS), New Delhi, 12 March 2004. |
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Research Advocacy and Human rights, Paper presented, at the India Habitat Centre work shop on Civil Society Partners and Human Rights organized by the One World South Asia, New Delhi, 3-4 march 2004. |
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Globalization and Human Rights, PUCL Bulletin, July 2002. |
Book Reviews
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Gandhi Marg, Rafiq Zakaria, Communal Rage in Secular India, Popular Parkashan, Mumbai, 2002, June 2003. Vol. 26, No. 1,.
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Dr. Raj has conducted several fact finding investigations on human rights violations on behalf of civil society groups that included firing on farmers in Haryana, killings of Dalits (low castes) in Uttar Pradesh and police high handedness in Delhi. He is part of core group of NGOs of National Human Rights Commission. He has written a number of articles on governance and policing issues in vernacular and English dailies. |
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