Elections don't solve all problems (Article Published on HT,CHD)

Most Admired Indian Female Icon 2011

MSN  Most Admired Indian Female Icon: Kiran Bedi wins this well deserved title for her fight against corruption

Most Admired Indian Female Icon 2011 (Published on Business -Standard 28 March)

At WOW Festival 2012

Speaking at the Women Of the World (WOW) Festival in London on March 10, 2012. Shared how best prison systems around the world can reintegrate women prisoners back into society-Tihar Way! 

The Journey to fearlessness

Yes saying no is still a choice

When you left with no options

When you left with no option

After result remind MLA of promises ( Hindustan times ( Chandigargh Edition)

Spread the Movement Against Corrution in your own way

With Anna at a theatre in Chennai yesterday. Being welcomed upon arrival to watch a film 'Welcome Back Gandhi'

Anna in Chennai

Anna in Chennai. First of its kind. Amazing response. This what people want but not get.

MUMBAI/INDIA, 13NOV11 - Huguette Labelle, Chair, Transparency International, Germany; Co-Chairs of the India Economic Summit; Global Agenda Council on Mining & Metals, Ashwani Kumar, Minister of State for Planning, Science and Technology and Earth Sciences of India, Kiran Bedi, Founder and Secretary-General, Navjyoti India Foundation, India and Adi B Godrej, Chairman, The Godrej Group, Godrej Industries; President Designate, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), India; Co-Chair of the India Economic Summit at the The Indian Spring: Seeking Independence from Corruption TV Debate during the India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, India, 12-14 November, 2011.

Latest Video : Salient Points - Seedhi Baat ( Jan Lokpal Bill)

Latest Video : Salient Points - Seedhi Baat ( Jan Lokpal Bill)

Lambs no more, silent no more

World Debate- can India Beat Corruption

Watch today Dr. Kiran Bedi with Adi Godrej, Ashwani Kumar & Hugette Labelle in World Debate - Can India Beat Corruption? on BBC World @ 2.30 pm.

Zee News Interview- Answering Allegations

Kiran Bedi Speaks clearly and in details on many issues- Zee News
Zee News Interview- Answering Allegations

Policing as a Power to Prevent and Power to Correct

Policing as a Power to Prevent and Power to Correct

Response of the trustees of India Vision Foundation to the ongoing allegations on Kiran Bedi

Response of the trustees of India Vision Foundation to the ongoing allegations on Kiran Bedi

Wages of fighting for a cause ( Hindustan Times- Chandigarh 29-10-2011)

Hear youself then will the neta

Corruption by the numbers

This year will the PM make the Independence Day Speech citizens want to hear

The 10am plan to end delay in decision making

Tale of two bills: draft, graft

Live in resolution not conflict

Courage is need of the hour

Property matters top on seniors mind

Giving Asia women leaders

Govt was warned but it failed

second freedom struggle is on

Level of corruption at both ends worsening ; get behind the new Mahatma

Build womens trust in police

This womens's Day, let's act to empower ourselves

Aam aadmi's common fight

Time for a million to march here too

Why we are the land of scams

Check cancer of corruption

Community college revolution

point is the ongoing wage hike for parliamentarians

Leader dares to inspire social change

Get up its your world too

Women Try changing it

First ladies take the lead

Women seize the day

Enough, let Pune change us

A job for media: get rivers cleaned

For safer 2010, my wishlist

Woman, help her, yourself

Feedback, ride on its back

Bursting with joy,not crackers

Kick out the fear, stop playing ball

YES MADAM SIR coming to NYC IFC theatre

Hi All,
YES MADAM, SIR, the Kiran Bedi biopic, narrated by Helen Mirren and filmed over six years, is screening in NYC at the IFC cinemas, from 31st July - 5th August. This is as apart of DOCUWEEK selection, which qualifies our film for the 2010 Academy Awards for 'Best Feature Documentary'.
View the trailer on the following link: www.yesmadamsir.com and www.kiranbedi.com
OR on YOUTUBE, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdteZIdoF4A
Purchase tickets at the following link: http://www.documentary.org/docuweeks09

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Channelise right, wrong

Elders ignored, neglected

Holiday or Poll-iday?

Who’s Human Rights?

I was recently in France at a Seminar on Human Rights. The focus of the conference was to examine the current trends in Europe and Asia regarding the criminal justice systems. And how can the effectiveness of the respect and protection of Human Rights in the Criminal Justice Systems be evaluated? What rights must be observed in pre-trial procedure and detention? In what stages of trail are human rights violations more likely to occur and how can these vulnerabilities be addressed. Is the number of prisoners increasing? How effective are the existing measures for social reinsertion? Are his/ her rights as a citizen diminished in prison? Hence the main objective of the seminar was to discuss ways of better protecting human rights in the various stages of criminal justice systems. With specific focus on identifying trends on how individual rights are being protected in two continents; find common priorities in meeting international human rights standards on pre-trial, trial, post-trial as well as sentencing /punishment. And then formulate recommendations for relevant institutions at a national level, regional and inter-regional level. I was invited to be a keynote speaker on the plenary day. And I am quite certain that I was perhaps the only person from the police profession therefore probably had a different perspective. The conference was over flowing with eminent lawyers, judges, non profit organizations, academia, and other human rights activists. I posited some basic questions before the participants which have been agitating me for all these years and assumed a sense of urgency in current times of brutal terror attacks.. Here is the one question I posited before the august gathering- “Who is looking at the rights of the victims”? For the victim/s is suffering in innumerable ways. Be it by loss of life or his possessions; children getting orphaned; dependent families their earning members; country losing precious resources; investors their hard earned life savings; aging parents their most loved ones; and in assault on women, permanent scars of rape on their mind and body? And what about the endless wait for the prosecution and the trials? Accused is mostly on bail and in serious cases may be in jail. But so are the victims and the witnesses. Sometimes delayed trials help the accused to wear out the victims. And at times the accused too lose by delayed trials. But the fact is that in every case there are victims and victims. The accused with muscle and money power is open to hire expensive legal support while the victim is dependent on the over worked government prosecutor. Undoubtedly there are issues of rights on both sides. But how can we ignore one at the cost of the other? Who is speaking for the victim created by the accused? The same police who are always under pressure to deliver, despite huge constraints. The accused has a right to be quiet; defended, medically cared for; legally protected; safely lodged; even educated and reformed; to the extent that he can study and take an examination and qualify for the UPSC examination. What about the good cops who are exhausted, tired, ill equipped, most of the time no money to travel and dispose off the corpses.---When we want the maximum out of the police for the protection of human rights of the accused, (which they must), who will address their right to appropriate resources; legal support; forensics, better availability of information technology; laws, training, fitness; departmental support, material support, newer skills; their security; modern weaponry; living conditions; family and their children needs; their future? I am in no way proposing lowering of standards of human rights of the accused. They must have a right to all humane treatment and legal defense for us to remain a civilized society. All I am asking for is for how long will we continue to ignore the hapless victims who are left to themselves, scarred, injured, maimed, orphaned, deprived, impoverished, neglected, isolated, defamed? Who is going to walk the talk, legislate and implement victim’s rights? We need a more comprehensive approach to human rights and human responsibilities. We cannot just begin and end with the accused. We have to address the serious issue with that of the Accused+ Victim. In order to do that we have to dissect all the criminal justice and social processes which are impacting our trust in the justice systems? The A+V+CS, i.e. Accused +Victim +Civil Society is looking for speedy and effective justice. All three are, ‘we the people’. And amongst us are the accused and victims. But we as a society are also the resource providers as also problem solvers. We need to put out heads together to take these issues head on and strike a careful balance. Any thinking forum which ignores holistic comprehension of human rights may just be aggravating or postponing the problem while believing it is solving it.

Hard-earned name