Visitors: 193 LONDON, 15 November 2010 – The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International is delighted at news that Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy, has been released from house arrest. “The global community of writers within PEN International joyfully welcomes Aung San Suu Kyi as she appears […]
Visitors: 192 LONDON, 15 November 2010-The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International commemorates its fiftieth year in 2010, on the International Day of the Imprisoned Writer, and pays tribute to 41 writers around the world who have been killed in the last year. “The Writers in Prison Committee has played a leading role in […]
Visitors: 162 Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) salutes Ms. Irom Chanu Sharmila’s untiring courage for demanding repeal of the Armed Forced Special Powers Act of 1958 (AFSPA). Her 10-year fasting is an example of struggle for genuine peace and freedom from violence at north- eastern part of the country. Ms. Irom Sharmila started her fasting […]
Visitors: 210 A three days seminar on 27th to 29th of the November 2010 is being co-organized by Local Governance & Decentralized Economy Social Group and Gokul University and co-sponsored by the Ground Report India. on “Social Economy, Self Sustained Green Society, Climate Change, Economic Justice, Local Governance and Alternative Media”. More than 70 persons […]
Visitors: 177 The government and the military are engaged in competition for supremacy. The judiciary is struggling for its due role, vis-à-vis the executive. Often with collusion of those who should be protecting them, very survival of minorities is repeatedly threatened by the aggressive elements of the majority community. Millions of innocent citizens, already lacking […]
Visitors: 132 Dr. Manmohan Singh has realized his single point agenda of passing nuclear bill in parliament and bringing nuclear power projects to India at any cost. While he may be happy and satisfied man now, the burden caused due to his single point agenda has to be carried on by his country men for […]
Visitors: 599 CUBA The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of International PEN is delighted at the news of the release of three more Cuban journalists imprisoned since 2003. Fabio Prieto Llorente and Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta touched down in Madrid on 19 August 2010 while Juan Adolfo Fernández Saínz (pictured below) arrived the next day, […]
Visitors: 201 [The paper below was presented as the Concept Note1 for a National Campaign & Consultation: Who are the barbarians on our Homeland? at Bagachia Conference Centre Namkum Ranchi Jharkhand2. The delegates then voted that it be circulated to all corners of our land as an annexure to the Declaration of the Consultation under […]
Visitors: 211 Singapore officials should cease using criminal defamation and contempt laws to silence government critics, Human Rights Watch said today. The arrest of Alan Shadrake, the 75-year-old British author of Once A Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock, a critical review of Singapore’s death penalty law and its administration, further narrows the space […]
Visitors: 144 According to recent reports, in Pakistan, there are influential media barons, military and government officials, and political leaders, who consider nuclear weapons their ‘crown jewels’. They would like to start a nuclear war against India, even if a couple of their own cities are also destroyed in the process. They regard peacemakers as […]
Visitors: 172 I had moved to Bhopal in January 1983. Year 1984 was a difficult one for me. I was struggling to set up my business of interior designing and furniture with practically no capital. I did not have many clients. Of the few clients that I had, not many treated me with any level […]
Visitors: 202 The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN (WiPC) protests in the strongest possible terms the murder of Jean Leonard Rugambage, deputy editor of the banned newspaper Umuvugizi, who was shot dead outside his home on 24 June 2010. Rugambage had reportedly been followed and threatened prior to his death and it is […]
Visitors: 203 I Have Seen Her Crying On June 13, 2010, we 12 Human Rights Activists of Jharkhand started our journey before the dawn. We had heard a horrible story about an Adivasi woman who was killed in crossfire between the security forces and the Maoists. Her name was Jasinta. She was mere 25 years […]
Visitors: 160 It was a black and white picture. That too, not of very clear resolution. But what was clear was that a body of a dead was being carried by security personnel. The hands and legs were tied to a pole, and the body was being carried out like that of a carcass by […]
Visitors: 206 The battle with India’s Maoists has begun, and it has become bloody. Maoists have ambushed and killed over a hundred security personnel in recent months. Media reports say Maoists have also engaged in reprisal killings of alleged informers and “class enemies”. There is suspicion that the Maoists sabotaged tracks, leading to the train […]
Visitors: 183 The Writers for Peace Committee follows the Lugano Declaration in condemning individual terrorism as well as State terrorism; we declare that those who resort to violence, even for a good cause, “annull the missions to which they are dedicated and lose all claims to legitimacy” (quoted from the Statement of the 50th Congress […]
Visitors: 130 The Government has made minor concession after the public protest for the NEW GOVERNMENT OF INDIA RULES FOR OVERSEAS INDIANS WHO HAVE BECOME NATURALIZED CITIZENS OF OTHER COUNTRIES. After the first announcement, the government only reduced the fees payable from US$175 to US$20 but many other provisions remain unchanged causing the undue hardships […]
Visitors: 188 As a Muslim and as one born in Pakistan, it saddens me to see someone from that country engaging in a terrorist act, such as the one in Times Square a few days ago. I’m thankful it was no one was hurt. And I hope that the guilty individual gets the maximum sentence […]
Visitors: 163 The Naxal threat has grown steadily but subtly, and unchecked by commensurate counter-action its severity now surpasses the capabilities of the current strategy, which does not have all stakeholders on board. The state cannot succeed simply by trying harder: it must now adopt a fundamentally new approach. An insurgency as long-drawn as the […]
Visitors: 144 There is no doubt that the process of democracy have been usurped by the politicians and their family members in several countries in south east Asia such as Sri Lanka , India and Pakistan. This has caused difficult situation for the citizens, as these politicians now control the destiny of the country and […]
Visitors: 156 The situation in the North Cachar Hills district is representative of the North- East. The DHD (Jewel) faction having come over-ground last year, the Army, supplemented by the para-military, remains deployed with a ceasefire in place and rebel groups placed in camps. The talks process has been initiated with former IB chief, PC […]
Visitors: 157 The world’s high table now seats only countries belonging to the G-7 and NATO groupings, which acting in concert advance the economic and political interests of the well heeled and economically developed nations of the world. These nations have the common underlying fabric of western European culture binding them together. Japan is the […]
Visitors: 168 There are thousands of religions, Sects. Cults etc in the present world. The people should understand that a person has three vital elements i.e. BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT (SOUL). The Body requires air (Oxygen) for life, then water, food, shelter and cloth. But the MIND requires various things of this world and the […]
Visitors: 168 A relatively liberal republic of Kyrgyzstan has been in the throes of political change over the last three years. Since 2007, it has been ruled by the elitist Bakiyev family that has for all functional purposes, abandoned parliamentary democracy in the region, usurping all power in its own ruling party and sidelining others. […]
Visitors: 150 The Nuclear Liability Bill [No. 19 of 2010] is a major step towards operationalising the India-US civil nuclear deal. Its underlying aim is to limit the monetary compensation which the operator of a nuclear power plant would be required to pay in the case of nuclear disaster. The text of the bill shows […]