Freedom-of-Expression

Trump: Peacemaking Revolution of the US Aggressive Geopolitics – by 19 coauthors from 11 countries

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Visitors: 664 Contents Overview of the articles about Trump’s victory The methodology of scientific analysis Trump’s program of peacefulness and peacemaking3.1. Complete rejection from aggressive geopolitics of Obama-Clinton 3.2. Coherent and rational geopolitics instead of aggression 3.3. The center of Trump’s peacefulness: peace and cooperation with Russia and China 3.4. Trump: peace and prosperity require […]

Demonetization : Assault on the People

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Visitors: 208 The month old gamble of Mr. Modi (November 2016) has put the whole country in an unprecedented chaos. The demonetization of 86.4% of the circulating currency in the form of Rs 500 and 1000 rupee notes has put into jeopardy the life of major sections of society. Nearly seventy people have died in […]

NAKEDNESS AS SOCIAL PROTEST

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Visitors: 399 S Kamal Abdali is a computer scientist and has worked mainly in the theoretical and foundational areas of that discipline. Having served in universities, industrial research labs, and governmental research agencies, he is now retired and lives in Arlington, Virginia, USA. Nakedness makes a lot of sense as a form of protest. Subjecting […]

Is Peace Possible? A Dialogue with Johan Galtung on Ukraine, Trump, Putin, Gandhi, and…

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Visitors: 990 Dr. Gary Corseri is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment. He has published and posted articles, fiction and poems at hundreds of venues, including, TMS, The New York Times, Village Voice, Redbook Magazine and Counterpunch. He has published 2 novels and 2 collections of poetry, and his dramas […]

A Better World Has Less Violence, War

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Visitors: 294 Prof Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU. Prof. Galtung has published 1670 articles and book chapters, over 450 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service, and 167 books on peace and related issues, of which 41 […]

Seeking the True Path

GRI Freedom-of-Expression, Human Rights, International, Reports, Robert J Burrowes PhD, Writers in Solidarity Robert J Burrowes PhD 0

Visitors: 357 Robert J. Burrowes has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of ‘Why Violence?‘ One of the more subtle manifestations of the […]

Trump – Hillary: America’s Historic Choice between Peace and War, between its Updating and Fall with a Bang By Dr. Leo Semashko

GRI Cover Reports, Freedom-of-Expression, International, Prof Leo M Semashko PhD, Reports, Writers in Solidarity Donald Trump, Dr Leo M. Semashko, Hillary Clinton, Russia, USA, USA President 2016 2

Visitors: 524 The Election True Intrigue Many people think and write that America now faces the ordinary choice of two evils (Trump – Hillary) – smaller. In fact, the scale of this election is a unique and unparalleled, infinitely more significant for the history of both the American and human history as a whole, incomparable […]

Confusions around term Hindutva by Prof Ram Puniyani

GRI Freedom-of-Expression, Human Rights, Indian States, Prof Ram Puniyani MD, Reports, Writers in Solidarity electoral practices, Hindu, Hinduism, Hindutva, Hindutva Judgment, Religion and Politics, S.R. Bommai, Secularism 0

Visitors: 356 On October 25 (2016) the seven member Supreme Court Bench started hearing to revisit ‘Hindutva’ cases. These are group of cases where the use of term Hindutva-Hinduism to be used during elections is to be opined. One such case was that of Manohar Joshi who in his election speech said that if he […]

Swarna Bharat Party asks Mr Modi to abrogate all unnecessary free speech restrictions in India

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Visitors: 238 Mr Sanjay Sonawani, President of Swarna Bharat Party, India’s only liberal party, said that the NDTV incident will signal to the world that India does not respect freedom of speech. The incident is, however, symptomatic of a strong anti-free speech bias found in many Indian laws. The Cable TV laws under which the […]

To deal with climate change we need a new financial system

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Visitors: 214 Jason Hickel PhD [themify_quote]Abolishing debt-based currency isn’t a new idea, but it could hold the secret to ending our economies’ environmentally damaging addiction to growth[/themify_quote] When it comes to global warming, we know that the real problem is not just fossil fuels – it is the logic of endless growth that is built […]

Book : Ambedkar and Hindutva Politics by Ram Puniyani

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Visitors: 246 About the Book “The BJP-RSS’s ascent to power at the Centre has led to the increased assertion of Hindutva politics, which is focused on Hindu nationalism in contrast to the Indian nationalism envisaged by the freedom movement and the Indian Constitution. One of the components of Hindu nationalism is to perpetuate the caste […]

The first introduction of the book on the efforts towards conflict resolution in Bastar, the highly affected maoist area

GRI Books, Freedom-of-Expression, Human Rights, Indian Governments, Indian States, Reports, Vivek U Glendenning "Social Nomad", VUG Exclusive, Writers in Solidarity Bastar, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, Dantewada, India, Jagdalpur, Kanker, Kondagaon, Maoist, Narayanpur, Sukma, Vivek Glendenning Umrao 0

Letter from Prof (Rtd) Chaman Lal to the Vice Chancellor, JNU on current situation

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Visitors: 212 Dear Prof. M Jagdeesh Kumar, Late greetings on your taking over as Vice Chancellor of JNU. I saw one of your interview in Navbharat Times (Hindi daily), when your appointment was announced, but you have not yet taken over. Interview was reassuring which mentioned your desire to have very open and frank relations […]

Turkey: Cumhuriyet journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül facing life imprisonment

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Visitors: 209 PEN Internatioanl PEN International is deeply concerned by news that the İstanbul Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor is seeking an aggravated life sentence against Cumhuriyet journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül. The indictment shared with their lawyers on 27 January seeks an aggravated life sentence, an ordinary life sentence and 30 years of imprisonment […]

Turkey: Cumhuriyet journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül facing life imprisonment

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Visitors: 328 PEN Internatioanl PEN International is deeply concerned by news that the İstanbul Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor is seeking an aggravated life sentence against Cumhuriyet journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül. The indictment shared with their lawyers on 27 January seeks an aggravated life sentence, an ordinary life sentence and 30 years of imprisonment […]

Appeal to University of Hyderabad – for endorsement by academicians

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Visitors: 127 Neeraj Jain, Lokayat and Socialist Party (India) One of the bright minds of the country, a promising scholar at University of Hyderabad, a student of the thought of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, Rohit Vemula has committed suicide on January 17, 2016. While the country is celebrating 125th birth anniversary of Dr. Ambedkar, we stand […]

Appeal to University of Hyderabad – for endorsement by academicians

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Visitors: 149 Neeraj Jain, Lokayat and Socialist Party (India) One of the bright minds of the country, a promising scholar at University of Hyderabad, a student of the thought of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, Rohit Vemula has committed suicide on January 17, 2016. While the country is celebrating 125th birth anniversary of Dr. Ambedkar, we stand […]

Poet and rights activist Irakli Kakabadze arrested, physically abused and facing trial

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Visitors: 409 PEN International On 25 December 2015 poet, activist and winner of the 2009 Oxfam Novib/PEN Awards for Freedom of Expression, Irakli Kakabadze, was arrested and injured during a peaceful demonstration protesting the appointment of Judge Levan Murusidze to the Appeals Court of Georgia’s High Council of Justice in Georgia. The appointment of Murusidze […]

Iran: Do not return blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki to prison

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Visitors: 178 PEN International PEN International has received information that blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been summoned to return to prison to continue serving his 15-year prison sentence despite his continuing ill-health, or face confiscation of the bail collateral posted for his release. He is expected to return on 18 or 19 January 2016. Ronaghi […]

Iran: Do not return blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki to prison

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Visitors: 242 PEN International PEN International has received information that blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been summoned to return to prison to continue serving his 15-year prison sentence despite his continuing ill-health, or face confiscation of the bail collateral posted for his release. He is expected to return on 18 or 19 January 2016. Ronaghi […]

GIVE SPACE FOR SANER VOICE IN MEDIA

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Visitors: 186 N.S.Venkataraman Nadini Voice For The Deprived As one opens the newspapers or television , it is seen that the corrupt dealings , murders , rape , assault , dacoity and several such unsavoury incidents are given all the prominence . Inevitably, the good deeds , praise worthy efforts and lofty behaviour of individuals […]

Return of Translation Prize

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Visitors: 142 Dr. Chaman Lal Retired Professor, JNU, New Delhi (A letter to the chairman, Sahitya Akademi) Dear Dr. Vishwanath Tewari, With a sense of anguish, I have sent my covering letter along with a cheque for 15000/ rupees, which I received from Sahitya Akademi in year 2002 as part of National Translation Prize […]

Assault on Syncretic Traditions

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Visitors: 236 Prof. Dr Ram Puniyani (Rtd) IIT Bombay The country is undergoing a regressive attack in different fields of life. Apart from the political undermining of secularism, pluralism and Indian nationalism, the cultural pluralism and valued syncretic traditions are also under severe attack. The intensity is increasing. On the back of the murders of […]

An Urgent Open Letter To PM Modi by Vishwa Ghosh

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Visitors: 194 Viswa Ghosh Stopping us from polluting Ganges has nothing to do with pseudo-secularism. It is time our sadhus start growing up and seeing things as they are… If our sadhus are contributing to Ganges pollution, how many of the sadhus contribute to cleaning up Indian cities, rivers and lakes? I think it is […]

Chief Justice of India — just a mouse on the treadmill?

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Visitors: 221 Krishnaraj Rao The present judicial system has long-term failure written into its DNA. It seems to throw up only short-sighted pygmies as Chief Justice of India — men who don't feel sufficiently responsible and empowered to change the system. And so our Chief Justices just hold hearings and routinely plod along till they […]