Activism

Faculty of Law, Jamia Millia Islamia in collaboration with National Commission for Women had organised a two day National Legal Awareness Programme on the 10th and 11th of October, 2015 at the Municipal Corporation School located in Batla House, New Delhi. During the Legal Awareness Programme, quite a number of women from adjoining localities participated in the aforementioned programme overwhelmingly. ...

Oct. 9, 2015: Jamia Millia Islamia students and faculty members held a silent candlelight march Friday on campus in protest against the communal lynching of Mohammed Akhlaq in Dadri, U.P. The silent march started and concluded at the central library, where students along with Dean Students Welfare, Prof. Tasneem Meenai, observed a two-minutes silence.

According to a news article published in the Indian Express, dated Sept. 19, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has informed the Delhi Women’s Commission (DCW) in a letter that: “Jamia Millia Islamia is in the process of revisiting the extant guidelines in various respects to uphold gender equity on the campus.” Jamia’s letter to the DCW was in response to a ...

Sept. 18, 2015: Unhappy with the quality of the canteen food and a hike in canteen food prices, an impromptu protest by a few students turned into a major protest by hundreds of students at Jamia Millia Islamia, Friday. Protesting students alleged, on condition of anonymity, that the quality of the food has been awful for years now, which students ...

An animal rights group called, “Lovanimals (Trust For The Welfare Of Animals)” has offered to help Jamia Millia Islamia control its stray dogs population on-campus by offering to neuter and vaccinate them at no cost to the university. In a letter addressed to the university Registrar, a founding member of Lovanimal, Sheetal Panwar, writes: “I’m writing this in connection with ...

Along with her friends, Neha Pandey (2016), a Jamia student of M.A. in Development Communications, AJK-MCRC, had ran a collection drive under the name “Rang De” on Jamia campus early this year in March with an aim to collect enough money to buy packets of coloring pens, pencils and sketch books, in order to bring a little bit of joy and ...

Mohammed Shahid (2016), a 20-year-old second year B.A. in Geography student of Jamia Millia Islamia and a cycling enthusiast, plans to cycle the length of India from Kanyakumari in the south, to Kashmir in the north, on his own to raise awareness about child sexual abuse. According to Shahid, a native of Kerala, the campaign will start on 3rd of ...

After last week’s successful conclusion of a collection drive for the quake-hit people of Nepal by a Jamia student organization of law students called Youth for People, another student organization by the name of Jamia Students Forum (JSF) have concluded their own collection drive and dispatched their collection to Nepal on May 4, 2015 through the ongoing rescue and relief ...

Youth for People, a Jamia law students group, has informed Jamia Journal that on Wednesday, April 29, they delivered all the donations they had collected in the past few days for the people affected by the Nepal earthquake, to the Nepal embassy in New Delhi. According to Sahil Ahmed, a member of Youth for People, the Nepal embassy people were ...

SIO launched ‘Save the Internet’ Campaign in Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi on Saturday, 18th April 2015. National President of the Students’ Islamic Organisation of India (SIO), Iqbal Hussain said that Net Neutrality – the principle that all data should be treated equally on the Internet, is something that we should not compromise on. He called the attempts to thwart Net ...