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From Madrid to Baku: A chronicle of inadequate climate action at UN Conferences
Why are international measures to mitigate Climate Change so slow and ineffective?
Yes, there was once a place called Gaza
That was the renowned Urdu poet Ghalib describing the...
In the face of death, destruction and displacement, beauty plays a vital role in Gaza
When people find themselves displaced from their homes, finding or creating beauty can be just as vital as food, water and shelter.
Against gender violence: feminists support Gaza ceasefire
This statement is unequivocal. The statement has been issued on Friday November 24, 2023, by Female cultural, political and trade union personalities
UN Security Council calls for stop in Gaza fighting for aid
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 15 - The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday, November 15, called for urgent, immediate and extended humanitarian stop (pauses) in the “fighting” between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip for a "sufficient number of days" to allow aid access, reported Reuters.
Muslim shops in India are boycotting Israeli products: Al Jazeera
Some Muslim shopkeepers in India are no longer stocking Israeli and US products in support of the people of Palestine and this move has started a small movement amongst the local community. This tiny boycott is a pale reminder of the powerful Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement in the USA
2,000 refugees from Myanmar cross over to India as intense gunfight rock Chin state
PTI reports that over 2,000 people from Khawmawi, Rihkhawdar and the neighbouring villages in Chin crossed over to India and took shelter in Zokhawthar in Champhai district
Scrap ‘deal’ to send Indian workers to Israel for replacing Palestinians: Central TUs
The Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and Independent...
How Does International Humanitarian Law Apply in Israel and Gaza?
To understand the utter abdication of all rules of the game right now in the Israel offensive on Gaza and the West Bank it is crucial to understand International Humanitarian Law, what it is and where does it come from?
18 UN agencies and NGOs call for a Ceasefire in Gaza now!
"We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire", Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory
A poem for Gaza– Gazalament
A poem on the mass killings in Gaza and the West Bank, by Isareli forces for the past month after the Hamas attack of October 7 from the daughter of Admiral and Lalitha Ramdas, former Chief of the Indian Navy from November 30, 1990
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Rule of Law
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Communalism
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India
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India
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The INC had proposed names of Justices Rohinton Nariman and or KM Joseph for the position of Chairperson NHRC. As news of the latest appointment of the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) became public recently with Justice V Ramasubramanian emerging as the person appointed, a strong note of dissent on the process has recently been made public by the Indian National Congress.
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