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Address Discrimination & Hate Crimes India told: CERD, UN

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has sharply criticised the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, and raised concerns about the subjecting of Bengali-speaking Muslims to “systematic and structural racial discrimination”

Plight of Palestinians in an unequal fight

An independent state of Palestine becomes a distant reality with every attack by Israel

Supersizing victimhood: Hindu Right’s appropriation of Islamophobia, the Jewish Holocaust & Indigenous struggles

Image Courtesy:india.comThe seemingly illogical idea of Hindu victimhood -...

George Floyd murder: One year on

While there has been an increase in conversations surrounding race, justice still eludes many other victims of racism including Breonna Taylor and Daunte Wright

Londoners march in solidarity with Palestinians

Around 2,00,000 people came together in a massive demonstration expressing empathy and solidarity with Palestinians

Israel faces both a military and political defeat

The Palestinian National Resistance remains resolute and has emerged victorious!

Israel’s attack on Palestine: Imperialist designs?

A closer look at the Israel-Paletine conflict that has been reignited recently and has led to death and destruction in the Middle East

Banish the Law of Blasphemy; It is Crippling the Muslim World

Under the garb of protecting the honor of Islam, the orthodoxy is robbing Muslims of their true potentials

Biden-Harris administration backs IPR flexibility for Covid vaccine

Move will help production of the vaccine in developing nations thereby enabling their availability to a larger number of people

Manipur HC orders safe passage for 7 Myanmarese to seek protection under UNHCR

 They had fled to India in February, fearing persecution as a result of the military coup that banned their media service, detaining many journalists  

Pfizer donates USD 70 million worth of Covid-19 drugs to India

Donation includes medicines identified for Covid treatment, but does not include vaccines as Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has not been cleared by the Indian government yet

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Kishtwar Minor’s Rape Case: Selective societal outrage and price of being Gujjar in Kashmir

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The Normalisation of Suicide at IITs: Institutional blindness and failure

The recent protest at the Lecture Hall of IIT Delhi where slogans of “Investigation, Compensation, and Resignation”, were raised by the student collective raises the crucial demand for redistributive justice, firstly demanding that the administration to recognise these deaths as the failure of institutions to recognise structural inequities, denials and cruelties.