Tag: human rights

सेना से रिटायर ब्रिगेडियर की बेटी के साथ पुलिस थाने के भीतर यौन हिंसा / How can you touch an Army officer, assault his fiance? Asks Maj. Gen Bishamber Dayal

सेना से रिटायर ब्रिगेडियर की बेटी के साथ पुलिस थाने के भीतर यौन हिंसा की घटना को लेकर किसे कोसा जाए। उस चुप्पी को कोसने लग जाए, जो अब राजनीतिक दल के हिसाब से ओढ़ ली जाती है या उन आवाज़ों को भी कोसने लग जाएं जिनके मुखर होने के बाद भी ऐसी घटनाएं नहीं… Read More सेना से रिटायर ब्रिगेडियर की बेटी के साथ पुलिस थाने के भीतर यौन हिंसा / How can you touch an Army officer, assault his fiance? Asks Maj. Gen Bishamber Dayal

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At least 22 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza school compound

GAZA casualties, live statistics At least 22 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in an Israeli strike on a school compound Saturday, Palestinian officials said, with Israel saying it targeted Hamas fighters sheltering there. A spokesman for the Gaza Civil Defense, Mahmoud Basal, said the missile hit the Al-Zaytoun School, near Gaza City, where thousands were… Read More At least 22 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza school compound

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The US and all nations must respect the UN resolution against Israeli occupation

Kenneth Roth The United Nations general assembly’s resolution on Wednesday advanced a dramatic legal shift, begun by the international court of justice (ICJ) in July, in how we understand Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. The US government’s response suggests a refusal to recognize the new legal reality in which Israel now finds itself. The general assembly resolution, which largely… Read More The US and all nations must respect the UN resolution against Israeli occupation

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Aristides de Sousa Mendes: Portuguese diplomat saved thousands from Holocaust and was punished by his government (2020)

Eighty years ago, a middle-aged, mid-ranking diplomat sank into deep depression and watched his hair turn grey in days, as he saw the streets of Bordeaux filling with Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis… Among those who escaped occupied France thanks to his visas were Salvador Dalí, filmmaker King Vidor, members of the Rothschild family and… Read More Aristides de Sousa Mendes: Portuguese diplomat saved thousands from Holocaust and was punished by his government (2020)

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Stormy weather

Like all despots, major & petty, Mamata thrives on playing the victim. But now, faced with this horrendous instance of a genuine victim, her fake-victimhood shrivels up into a carbonised farce.. Just as global warming creates unpredictably cruel weather, corruption too creates its own hard rain. Ruchir Joshi On the evening of the day Rizwanur… Read More Stormy weather

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UTTARAKHAND SITUATION: STATEMENT BY CITIZENS FOR PEACE

NB: Our rulers posture on the world stage as statesmen for peace; while at the same time their sole political agenda within India is to stoke up inter-religious hatred and discrimination. DS STATEMENT BY CITIZENS FOR PEACE DEHRADUN, 13 September 2024 We are deeply disturbed and troubled by the manner in which social and economic… Read More UTTARAKHAND SITUATION: STATEMENT BY CITIZENS FOR PEACE

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Honduran anti-mining activist who fought to save rivers is killed

The group had suffered threats and harassment for years amid efforts to preserve the Guapinol and San Pedro rivers, and the Carlos Escaleras nature reserve, amid the growing presence of mining and hydro-electric companies. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Reuters —  An environmental activist who protested mining and hydro-electric projects in northern Honduras in an effort to preserve tropical forests and rivers… Read More Honduran anti-mining activist who fought to save rivers is killed

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Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves

Kara Fox, CNN As right-wing rioters attacked communities with racist violence across parts of the UK last month, 22-year-old climate activist Cressie Gethin sat in a prison cell. Her crime? Organizing a disruptive protest against new government-granted licenses to drill for oil — a planet-heating fossil fuel — in the North Sea. In late July,… Read More Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves

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Four years and counting, Umar Khalid languishes in jail without bail or trial

As of February 2024, his plea before the top court has been adjourned 14 times in 11 months. Ishita Mishra Four years after the Delhi police said student activist Umar Khalid was a key conspirator in the February 2020 north-east Delhi riots, he is languishing inside a maximum security prison in Tihar Jail without trial… Read More Four years and counting, Umar Khalid languishes in jail without bail or trial

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The Taliban’s harsh new vice and virtue laws are a throwback to the oppression of the 1990s

Kambaiz Rafi Until the collapse of Afghanistan’s US-backed government in August 2021, few knew clearly what the Taliban wanted once they had returned to power. Some western officials and observers hoped for a big change from the regime, which had governed the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate in the 1990s. This time, they hoped, a more sophisticated and pragmatic vision might… Read More The Taliban’s harsh new vice and virtue laws are a throwback to the oppression of the 1990s

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