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Militaristic nationalism, pushed by complicit big media have blurred dangers of nuclear war to the planet: CNDP

The Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) and other peace platforms commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6, 1945

Amnesty for Afghans: Can the world walk the talk?

It is one thing to express solidarity, but quite another to actually offer refuge; the least that departing world powers can do, is offer amnesty to Afghans desperate to flee a totalitarian regime

Journalists are targeted by all hardliner regimes, this time in Afghanistan

International media groups and organisations are asking governments to come together and make an “Emergency Plan for Afghan Journalism”

Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation

Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the United States. Most of this nonsense hides a number of important truths.

We want our rights: Afghan women protesters

Group of brave women, held up placards in protest in Kabul, as Taliban gunmen kept an an eye on them

Afghanistan Crisis: What is India’s plan of action?

There are over 200 Indian citizens who are reportedly stuck in Afghanistan;Taliban has reportedly “assured” Hindus and Sikhs of safety

Afghan crisis: Women, activists demand immediate ceasefire, protection for civilians

1,200 activists and women from Afghanistan and Iran pen an open letter asking the international community to intervene as the future of women in Afghanistan is threatened once again

Afghan President flees as Taliban enters Kabul

The militant organisation known for its blatant disregard for rights of women and minorities had been conquering one province after another over the last two weeks

Pegasus scandal: United Nations call for global ban on sale of spyware

UN experts say it is highly dangerous and irresponsible to allow surveillance technology to function as a “human rights-free zone”

A simmering revolution, stories untold, a military crackdown: Myanmar

Young journalists are staking their lives to report from the underground, hounded doctors are setting up secret clinics, urban guerillas have emerged in cities, and youngsters are moving into border areas to join armed guerilla armies – so why is India and the world so silent on Myanmar under a brutish and nasty Junta?

Islamophobia: Lessons from Canada on how to respond heinous hate crime

Four four members of a Muslim family mowed down by a pickup truck in Ontario, Canada PM called it "a terrorist attack."

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Labour rights, health of workers hit in the name of “reform”: PUCL Maharashtra

A detailed statement by the Maharashtra unit of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has, with reasoned arguments, critiqued the recent decision of the MahaYuti government in Maharashtra to curtail labour rights in the name of “reform”; Maharashtra government’s decision is in line with other states like Telangana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tripura (two of these are Congress ruled states) which have also enacted similar legislations.

Protests across Maharashtra denounce the Public Security Act as unconstitutional and anti-democratic

Opposition, rights groups, and people’s movements unite to call it an “anti-people, anti-democratic law”

Reaffirming Open Justice: The Supreme Court on speech and contempt

In the case of Wikimedia v. ANI Media Private Limited & Ors. the apex court reaffirmed free speech and restrained a Delhi High Court order that was held, on examination to be disproportionate

Urdu is not the monopoly of mullahs, nor even the Muslim community 

Our self-styled “left liberal” intelligentsia, otherwise loud in denouncing Hindu majoritarianism, suddenly turned mute when confronted with Muslim right-wing pressure

Election Commission seriously risks losing all credibility: senior advocate Sanjay Hegde

Senior advocate, Supreme Court Sanjay Hegde on Saturday, September 6, raised concerns over the credibility of the Election Commission of India, cautioning that the institution is increasingly being viewed as partisan, speaking at the annual public lecture on the occasion of Gauri Lankesh’s brutal assassination

India’s Silent Push-Out: Courts, states, and the deportation of Bengali-Speaking Muslims

From migrant workers vanishing in midnight raids to a Kolkata man driven to suicide by fear, reports across states reveal a disturbing pattern of expulsions without due process — now under scrutiny in India’s courts