Tag: human rights

Guardian editorial: Gaza’s devastation: the suffering won’t end when war does

GAZA casualties live statistics War deaths are not only caused by direct violence, and they don’t stop when the fighting does. Civilians as well as combatants may succumb to earlier injuries, or to hunger and disease in the aftermath of conflict. In the longer run, disruption of food production, damage to infrastructure and suspension of medical services… Read More Guardian editorial: Gaza’s devastation: the suffering won’t end when war does

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न्याय व्यवस्था की स्वतंत्रता, जवाबदेही और सुधार I प्रशांत भूषण I

न्याय व्यवस्था की स्वतंत्रता, जवाबदेही और सुधार” I प्रशांत भूषण I 1,657 views Premiered on 28 Jan 2024 पुण्यातील २२व्या लोकशाही उत्सवात तिसऱ्या दिवशी “न्याय व्यवस्था की स्वतंत्रता, जवाबदेही और सुधार” या विषयावर अॅड्. प्रशांत भूषण यांनी उपस्थितांशी संवाद साधला. #Prashantbhushan I #Demecracy Festival I Democracy Festival 2024 I LokshahiUtsav I #Nyay#Justice#chiefjusticeofindia#Lokshahi_Utsav_Pune#adani#CJI#RanjanGogoi Transcript Follow along… Read More न्याय व्यवस्था की स्वतंत्रता, जवाबदेही और सुधार I प्रशांत भूषण I

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No Notice Served: 600-Year-Old Mosque Razed in South Delhi’s Mehrauli Locality

Mosque’s Imam said the demolition operation was surreptitiously carried out before sunrise on Tuesday. Pieces of debris were meticulously removed to conceal the demolition from the public eye, he said. This shocking event unfolded amidst a broader demolition drive by the DDA and the Forest Department in the Sanjay Van area. Temples, dargahs, and graveyards… Read More No Notice Served: 600-Year-Old Mosque Razed in South Delhi’s Mehrauli Locality

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Terry Bell, veteran South African journalist on the origins of the Palestine conflict

GAZA casualties live statistics See on YouTube: Gaza – where and how the horror of Palestine began United Nations Documentation on the Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem With the International Court of Justice having made is provisional finding on the issue of Gaza it seems even more imperative than ever that we understand… Read More Terry Bell, veteran South African journalist on the origins of the Palestine conflict

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Algorithms of Exclusion

Reporters Collective A I series Haryana used the state’s Family ID database and algorithms to identify genuine beneficiaries of welfare schemes. The database wrongly listed thousands of citizens as dead. Result: They lost their pensions. The Collective’s Tapasya travelled to Haryana to understand how states are using artificial intelligence in an unintelligent way, at a… Read More Algorithms of Exclusion

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Conversations with a textile worker in Surat / सूरत में एक कपड़ा मजदूर से बातचीत

Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu and Surat in Gujarat are the preeminent textile clusters in India. In Surat there are two million workers in fifty thousand textile manufacturing units. Surat is a hub for synthetic fibres, especially sarees. At ease conversations on 27 and 28 December 2023 with a printing & dyeing factory worker in an… Read More Conversations with a textile worker in Surat / सूरत में एक कपड़ा मजदूर से बातचीत

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What the West gets wrong on Stalin and Putin

The Western tendency to reduce mass-scale crime to an omnipotent leader has always been a misleading one. Even Stalinism was not the work of one man, but of the security services and individuals willing to denounce their fellow neighbors for housing rights or petty grievances, as the Kyiv-born Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov so mercilessly satires in… Read More What the West gets wrong on Stalin and Putin

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What Happens in Ayodhya Doesn’t Stay in Ayodhya

Mrinal Pande A cluster of photos printed in a major English daily, the day after the week long rituals began in Ayodhya’s new Ram temple, confirms that our ‘Beti Padhao‘ and ‘Stree Sashkteekaran’ and various ‘Matru Kalyan Yojanas’ notwithstanding, the traditional gendered hierarchies remain firmly in place both on the streets and in the temple in Ayodhya. In… Read More What Happens in Ayodhya Doesn’t Stay in Ayodhya

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