Category: International

Human Rights, International, Media Watch, Opinion

निष्कारण बदनामी थांबली पाहिजे! – अरुणा बुरटे

तिस्ता सेटलवाड आणि त्यांचे पती जावेद आनंद या दोघांवर गुलबर्ग सोसायटीचे ‘प्रतिकाराचे प्रतीक’ करण्याच्या प्रकल्पासाठी गोळा केलेल्या निधीच्या अफरातफरीचा आरोप असणारे प्रकरण गुजरात उच्च न्यायालात सुनावणीस आले. चौकशीसाठी त्यांना अटक करावी या उच्च न्यायालयाच्या निर्णयाला सर्वोच्च न्यायालयाने १९ फेब्रुवारीला स्थगिती दिल्यापासून माध्यमात जोरदार उलटसुलट चर्चा चालू आहे. वास्तव हे असे आहे.  गुजरातमधे २००२ या वर्षात झालेल्या गोध्राकांडानंतरच्या दंगलीत अहमदाबादमधील गुलबर्ग सोसायटीत राहणाऱ्या एहसान जाफरी यांच्याकडे … Continue reading निष्कारण बदनामी थांबली पाहिजे! – अरुणा बुरटे

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International, The Feminist

Bangladesh: Polarisation, Political Violence & an Undeclared Civil War- ACHR report

NEW DELHI: Asian Centre for Human Rights in its report, “Bangladesh: Polarisation, Political Violence & an Undeclared Civil War” (http://www.achrweb.org/reports/bangla/Bangladesh2015-01.pdf), released today stated that about 90 people have been killed and more than a thousand were injured in the ongoing violent anti-government protests by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led 20-party alliance demanding resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League Government and holding of mid-term elections … Continue reading Bangladesh: Polarisation, Political Violence & an Undeclared Civil War- ACHR report

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International, Media Watch, The Feminist, The Tribal, The Worker, Videos

A true democracy is not about holding elections but how the right to peaceful assembly, protest and association is encouraged, what happens between elections says Maina Kiai

      Catch UN SR on the 
rights to freedom of peaceful assembly 
and of association in an interview with Teesta Setalvad at  Communalism Combat’s Third Interview, only on HILLELE TV and http://www.sabrang.com   In a brief and candid interview the UN SR, , explains this relatively new and recent mandate, established by the United Nations in 2010 created in recognition of the need … Continue reading A true democracy is not about holding elections but how the right to peaceful assembly, protest and association is encouraged, what happens between elections says Maina Kiai

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International

I See Palestine – Laura Whitehorn

    In response to Roger Cohen, “Why Americans See Israel the Way They Do,” New York Times, August 3, 2014. . . . The bias of the cowboy-and-Indians movies I grew up on in the 1950s has long been exposed: swallowing up Native American land was the aim, and the myth of the dangerous savages who threatened the very existence of innocent European settlers … Continue reading I See Palestine – Laura Whitehorn

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International

Declaration by Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award

    Stockholm/New Delhi, July 25 2014:  As recipients of the Right Livelihood Award, popularly known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize“, we strongly condemn the killing of hundreds of children and innocent civilians in Gaza by the Israeli Defence Forces, the indiscriminate firing of rockets by Hamas against Israeli civilians, and we mourn the continued suffering of Gaza’s inhabitants. Gaza faces shortages of water and electricity supply, of hospitals, physicians and medicine, while … Continue reading Declaration by Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award

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International, Videos

Nelson Mandela on Ted Koppel’s show- Part 1 & 2

        Published on Dec 6, 2013 In 1990, Nelson Mandela visited the U.S. for the first time after being freed from 27 years of imprisonment in South Africa. During Mandela’s visit he also conducted his first interview with Ted Koppel of ABC News. Koppel was then known as one of the toughest and most feared TV reporters and interviewers in America. His … Continue reading Nelson Mandela on Ted Koppel’s show- Part 1 & 2

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International

“Stop the promotion of hatred and faith-based violence” – UN rights experts urge Sri Lanka

GENEVA (30 June 2014) – Three United Nations experts on freedom of religion, minority issues, and summary executions today called on Sri Lanka to adopt urgent measures to stop the promotion of racial and faith-based hatred, and acts of violence against Muslim and Christian communities by Buddhist groups with extremist views. More than 350 incidents of violent attacks on Muslims and over 150 similar attacks … Continue reading “Stop the promotion of hatred and faith-based violence” – UN rights experts urge Sri Lanka

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