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India's Raghuvanshi receives German award for aid to untouchables
Dec 10, 2010, 18:56 GMT
Weimar, Germany - Lenin Raghuvanshi, an Indian human-rights activist,
was in Germany on Friday to receive an award in the city of Weimar for
his long fight on behalf of the dalits, or untouchables.
Raghuvanshi, founder of the People's Vigilance Committee on Human
Rights (PVCHR) in Uttar Pradesh state, also campaigns on behalf of
women, children and indigenous peoples and counsels victims of
injustice.
Weimar's city council picked him in June as winner of the eastern
city's annual human rights prize, worth 2,500 euros (3,300 dollars)
and invited him to Germany to receive it in person on International
Human Rights Day.
The citation said Raghuvanshi, a 40-year-old doctor, documented
dalits, or members of India's lowest caste, who died of hunger or had
been victims of police torture.
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