Visitors: 420 31 July 2017, Port Vila, Vanuatu: As part of the Pacific Islands Forum’s commitment to strengthening governance systems across the region and the promotion of gender equality and human rights, a Forum team is in Vanuatu this week for the country’s first gender and human rights peer review. Financing for gender equality is essential […]
Visitors: 1,197 Rajesh Vakharia On Thursday, Supreme Court of India recommended additional measures to stop the filing of false dowry cases by women. In the process, it has spoken about protection of human rights of the men implicated in these cases. The top court has asked State Legal Services Authorities to create of family welfare […]
Visitors: 446 Vivek Sakpal [themify_hr color=”red”] Well known, political commentator, human rights defender and a humanist, Vidya Bhushan Rawat launched his latest book “Contesting Marginalisations | Conversations on Ambedkarism & Social Justice” which is a compilations of Interviews conducted by Vidya Bhushan Rawat with eminent Ambedkarites and human rights intellectuals in the past 15 years. […]
Visitors: 242 David Krieger [themify_hr color=”red”] This article was originally published by Counterpunch. The U.S., UK and France have never shown enthusiasm for banning and eliminating nuclear weapons. It is not surprising, therefore, that they did not participate in the United Nations negotiations leading to the recent adoption of the nuclear ban treaty, or that they […]
Visitors: 296 UK miner Vedanta Resources’ today argued against a major pollution case being tried in UK in the first day of its appeal hearing in London. The hearing was met with solidarity protests at the Royal Courts of Justice demanding justice in the eleven year case on behalf of the victims. The May […]
Visitors: 222 [themify_quote]Shabnam Hashmi returned the National Minority Rights Award-2008 on 27th June 2017 to National Commission for Minorities, NCM. [/themify_quote] Shabnam Hashmi’s statement: I return today the National Minority Rights Award conferred on me in 2008 by the National Commission for Minorities. I am returning it in the memory of the innumerable innocent victims […]
Visitors: 433 Prof. Klaus Schlichtmann [themify_hr color=”red”] [themify_box] The Center for Global Nonkilling The mission of the Center for Global Nonkilling is to promote change toward the measurable goal of a killing-free world by means open to infinite human creativity. The goal can be reached by globally advancing nonkilling knowledge and skills, incorporating them into […]
Visitors: 332 Gary G. Kohls, MD [themify_quote]Definitions below have been obtained from a variety of open-source online sites – and then edited to fit[/themify_quote] Big Pharma is the pejorative term given to the vast number of multinational (global) pharmaceutical corporations. It takes no Hippocratic Oath, does not insist that its sycophants give fully informed […]
Visitors: 328 Gary G. Kohls, MD Over the 40 plus years that I was a family practitioner and teacher (the English word “doctor” derives from the Latin verb docere [do-ke-re] which means “to teach”), I have tried to fulfill what I have regarded as my solemn professional duty to warn my patients (and anybody else who would […]
Visitors: 916 Nuclear Age Peace Foundation We have exciting news! On June 15, more than 130 nations will re-convene at the United Nations for the final session of negotiations on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Sign this petition today to tell the President of the UN conference, Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez of Costa Rica, […]
Visitors: 273 Report on Round Table Discussion on “Future of Democracy, Social Justice and Secularism in India” Introduction The Round Table Discussion on Future of Democracy, Social Justice and Secularism in India, was organized by Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), Mumbai, on 28th May at GD Parikh Hall, University of Mumbai, Santacruz, […]
Visitors: 368 Gary G. Kohls, MD Although I have just been doing my scholarly, unbiased, science-based duty to warn (that is in direct opposition to the highly biased, indeed perverted, corporate “science” of Big Pharma that we all know is really in the game just because of the money), I have just received my first […]
Visitors: 336 Rene Wadlow [themify_quote]29 May has been set by the U.N. General Assembly as U.N. Peacekeepers day to pay tribute to all the men and women who have served and continue to serve in U.N. peacekeeping operations for their high level of professionalism, dedication and courage. Currently, there are some 113,000 military, police, and […]
Visitors: 404 Dr Ron Paul (RPI)- When we think about terrorism we most often think about the horrors of a Manchester-like attack, where a radicalized suicide bomber went into a concert hall and killed dozens of innocent civilians. It was an inexcusable act of savagery and it certainly did terrorize the population. What is less considered […]
Visitors: 420 Baher Kamal Asia is home to the largest number of indigenous peoples on Earth, with an estimated 260 million of a total of 370 million original inhabitants worldwide. In spite of their huge number-equaling half of the combined population of Europe– they are often victims of discrimination and denial of their rights. With […]
Visitors: 286 Rene Wadlow The way in which a society treats its children reflects not only its qualities of compassion and protective caring but also its sense of justice, its commitment to the future and its urge to better the human condition for coming generations. As the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development […]
Visitors: 276 [themify_quote]“The full extent of the Gardasil scandal needs to be assessed: everyone knew when this vaccine was released on the American market that it would prove to be worthless…I predict that Gardasil will become the greatest medical scandal of all time because at some point in time, the evidence will add up to […]
Visitors: 181 [themify_box]The demolition of Babri Masjid will be completing 25 years on 6th December. Indian Journal of Secularism will be publishing a special issue on the occasion carrying articles based on memories of the event 25 years ago and will be guest edited by Dr. Sameena Dalwai and Ramu Ramanathan. Kindly refer to the […]
Visitors: 993 5 May 2017 – Nadi, Fiji The Pacific Community (SPC) has this week launched a practical guide that will assist Pacific governments in their human rights treaties reporting. This is the first such document of its kind on human rights reporting under the core human rights treaties in the Pacific. The Pacific Guide to […]
Visitors: 397 About the Book “Partition, Indo-Pak Relations and Kashmir is a book that says, the only solution to the Kashmir imbroglio can be and has to be peaceful. Looking at the issue in the context of the subcontinent’s partition, it notes how Indo-Pak relations are held hostage to Kashmir and the vice-versa. The book […]
Visitors: 294 There have been over the years since the 1953 armistace periodic increases of tensions related to the policies of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). Currently, the nuclear program and missile launches of North Korea, the establishment of sophisticated anti-missile systems in South Korea, […]