Visitors: 268 18 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is delighted to report the release from prison of independent journalist Pedro Argüelles Morán on 4 March 2011. Argüelles, who has been allowed to stay in Cuba under a special parole programme, is the last of the many writers arrested in […]
Visitors: 261 18 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is delighted to report the release from prison of independent journalist Pedro Argüelles Morán on 4 March 2011. Argüelles, who has been allowed to stay in Cuba under a special parole programme, is the last of the many writers arrested in […]
Visitors: 273 18 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is delighted to report the release from prison of independent journalist Pedro Argüelles Morán on 4 March 2011. Argüelles, who has been allowed to stay in Cuba under a special parole programme, is the last of the many writers arrested in […]
Visitors: 249 17 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is deeply concerned about the reported re-arrest of academic and human rights activist Dr Abdul-Jalil Alsingace on 16 March 2011 after a violent crackdown on peaceful opposition protestors in the capital, Manama. Dr Alsingace recently spent nearly seven months in detention […]
Visitors: 292 17 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is deeply concerned about the reported re-arrest of academic and human rights activist Dr Abdul-Jalil Alsingace on 16 March 2011 after a violent crackdown on peaceful opposition protestors in the capital, Manama. Dr Alsingace recently spent nearly seven months in detention […]
Visitors: 282 17 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is deeply concerned about the reported re-arrest of academic and human rights activist Dr Abdul-Jalil Alsingace on 16 March 2011 after a violent crackdown on peaceful opposition protestors in the capital, Manama. Dr Alsingace recently spent nearly seven months in detention […]
Visitors: 294 The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International condemns the one- and- a- half year sentence handed down on 13 March 2011 to writer, journalist and activist Ali al-‘Abdullah for “harming Syria’s relations with a foreign country”. The sentence stemmed from an article published by Abdullah while in prison in 2009 in which […]
Visitors: 259 The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International condemns the one- and- a- half year sentence handed down on 13 March 2011 to writer, journalist and activist Ali al-‘Abdullah for “harming Syria’s relations with a foreign country”. The sentence stemmed from an article published by Abdullah while in prison in 2009 in which […]
Visitors: 300 The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International condemns the one- and- a- half year sentence handed down on 13 March 2011 to writer, journalist and activist Ali al-‘Abdullah for “harming Syria’s relations with a foreign country”. The sentence stemmed from an article published by Abdullah while in prison in 2009 in which […]
Visitors: 252 14 March 2011 On 10 March 2011, Ragip Zarakolu, publisher and free expression activist, was sentenced to a fine, and author Mehmet Güler to a 15-month suspended prison term. The two were convicted of spreading propaganda seen to support the banned Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK), following the publication of Mehmet Güler’s book The […]
Visitors: 260 14 March 2011 On 10 March 2011, Ragip Zarakolu, publisher and free expression activist, was sentenced to a fine, and author Mehmet Güler to a 15-month suspended prison term. The two were convicted of spreading propaganda seen to support the banned Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK), following the publication of Mehmet Güler’s book The […]
Visitors: 313 14 March 2011 On 10 March 2011, Ragip Zarakolu, publisher and free expression activist, was sentenced to a fine, and author Mehmet Güler to a 15-month suspended prison term. The two were convicted of spreading propaganda seen to support the banned Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK), following the publication of Mehmet Güler’s book The […]
Visitors: 162 07-03-2011 : Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi The President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil in her message on the occasion of International Women’s Day, which is being observed tomorrow has said: – “Every year, International Women’s Day is being celebrated on 8th March, to recognize the commitment, dedication and achievements of women. Indian […]
Visitors: 442 Who are Dalits? The Outcaste (Avarnas) within the varnashram 3000 years social oppression, political exploitation, economically deprived & culturally dominated. Menial job , service provider, facilitator, etc. Untouchables, asparshiya, depressed classes, harijans, etc. Officially known as Scheduled Castes (GoI Act, 1935) Another understanding on Dalits brings all the deprived groups SC, ST, OBC […]
Visitors: 301 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International welcomes the release of the independent journalist and librarian Iván Hernández Carrillo on 19 February 2011, after almost eight years in prison. Hernández, like Héctor Fernando Maseda Gutiérrez who was freed on 12 February, has been allowed to remain in Cuba under a special […]
Visitors: 304 The international Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Global Water Partnership (GWP) are having an experts’ workshop in Colombo Sri Lanka on the 24th and 25th February to discuss pressing food security and water issues in the face of climate change. The workshop will bring together participants from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, […]
Visitors: 217 India-Pakistan relationship, already strained, due to the decades-long short-sighted governmental policies and their one-upmanship strategies, has been in a downward spiral, since the November 2008 Mumbai carnage. Instead of statesmanship, the same old defensive stance, worn-out rhetoric and mud-slinging have continued. Under these circumstances, it is highly unlikely that the situation will improve […]
Visitors: 271 The 19 February 2011 sees the second-month anniversary of the mass arrests which followed demonstrations against the results of the flawed presidential election of 19 December 2010. The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International calls again for the release from detention of the journalists Dimitri Bondarenko, Aleksandr Fiaduta and Pavel Severinets, […]
Visitors: 378 India is a common-law country, judgments by the Supreme Court of India and the various state-level high courts also form part of the law. Certain landmark decisions of the higher judiciary have had a strong impact on the state of environmental law in the country. In addition a new National Environment Policy was […]
Visitors: 287 The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International condemns the five- year sentence handed down on 14 February 2011 to blogger, poet and high school student Tal Al-Mallouhi on the charge of “divulging information to a foreign state”. No evidence has been provided for the charge against her, and PEN International believes that […]
Visitors: 423 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is pleased to note that the writer and journalist Héctor Fernando Maseda Gutiérrez was freed on 12 February 2011, after almost eight years in prison. Unlike the 18 others freed last year, who were all exiled to Spain as a precondition of their release, […]
Visitors: 348 The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International is seriously concerned about the continuous detention of journalist ‘Ali al-‘Abdullah, whose two-and-a-half year sentence for his dissident writings and peaceful opposition activities expired in June 2010. Abdullah now faces new charges of ‘disseminating false information’ for an article he wrote in prison. He appeared […]
Visitors: 327 The extension of the Internet into virtually every branch of social and economic activity has led to growing public policy interest and sometimes concern as to how the Internet is managed and whether there is adequate accountability-not least in terms of respect of applicable laws. This development contrasts with the technological and academic […]
Visitors: 230 When Mahatma Gandhi was requested to provide a message for a conference on human rights, Gandhiji said that the message should first be taken for human duties before taking for human rights. Obviously, rights and duties have to go together. Certainly, one cannot lay claims for right, if he would not match it […]
Visitors: 216 by Goldy M George Conflict in Interest: Planning, Commissioning and Development In the early 1950s India embarked on a program of planned industrial development. Borrowing planning concepts from the Soviet Union, the government tried to stimulate development through massive investment in the public sector, imposing a system of tight controls on foreign ownership […]