Visitors: 389When Sri Lanka recently went for Presidential election, many people around the world thought that the country’s democratic system has matured and Sri Lanka will be able to overcome its problems before long. While the election debate was acrimonious when several personal allegations were made, the observers did not mind it , terming such […]
Visitors: 334Port Vila, February 6, 2010 University of the South Pacific student, Miss June Atomea is the winner of the Human Face story competition. Twenty-two year old, Ms Atomea, who is from Northern Malaita in the Solomon Islands submitted her essay titled ‘Silent cry of John, a village boy’.Organized by the United Nations Children’s Fund […]
Visitors: 441Port Vila, February 6, 2010 University of the South Pacific student, Miss June Atomea is the winner of the Human Face story competition. Twenty-two year old, Ms Atomea, who is from Northern Malaita in the Solomon Islands submitted her essay titled ‘Silent cry of John, a village boy’.Organized by the United Nations Children’s Fund […]
Visitors: 351London International PEN announced today the launch of a year-long campaign in celebration of the Writers in Prison Committee’s 50th anniversary. The campaign-Because Writers Speak Their Minds-marks 50 years of defending freedom of expression around the world.“International PEN was created out of the scars of World War I to bring societies back together through […]
Visitors: 378London International PEN announced today the launch of a year-long campaign in celebration of the Writers in Prison Committee’s 50th anniversary. The campaign-Because Writers Speak Their Minds-marks 50 years of defending freedom of expression around the world.“International PEN was created out of the scars of World War I to bring societies back together through […]
Visitors: 420Karachi, Pakistan: January 24, 2010 Dr. Nazir S Bhatti, President, Pakistan Christian Congress PCC, expressed distrust on statements of President Asif Zardari, CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif and Federal Minority Minister Shahbaz Bhatti that culprits will be brought to justice in Shazia case. Christian teenage girl Shazia Bashir Masih, working as housemaid was tortured, raped […]
Visitors: 346Karachi, Pakistan: January 24, 2010 Dr. Nazir S Bhatti, President, Pakistan Christian Congress PCC, expressed distrust on statements of President Asif Zardari, CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif and Federal Minority Minister Shahbaz Bhatti that culprits will be brought to justice in Shazia case. Christian teenage girl Shazia Bashir Masih, working as housemaid was tortured, raped […]
Visitors: 357-One- The Legacy Jyoti Basu, an icon of Indian socialism, died in Kolkata. He was 95. With him, an important era of South Asian politics passed too. Even though Basu belonged to the Communist Party of India that called itself Marxist-Stalinist, observers always thought he was more of a social democrat, a practitioner of […]
Visitors: 1,543-One- The Legacy Jyoti Basu, an icon of Indian socialism, died in Kolkata. He was 95. With him, an important era of South Asian politics passed too. Even though Basu belonged to the Communist Party of India that called itself Marxist-Stalinist, observers always thought he was more of a social democrat, a practitioner of […]
Visitors: 373Australia Australian National University (ANU) Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb has congratulated the University’s new Chancellor Gareth Evans on being named winner of the international 2010 Freedom from Fear Medal. The international prize is awarded every two years by the Roosevelt Stichting in the Netherlands, a private foundation allied with the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt […]
Visitors: 386Australia Australian National University (ANU) Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb has congratulated the University’s new Chancellor Gareth Evans on being named winner of the international 2010 Freedom from Fear Medal. The international prize is awarded every two years by the Roosevelt Stichting in the Netherlands, a private foundation allied with the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt […]
Visitors: 334Mexico Valentín Valdés Espinosa, co-founder of and journalist for the daily newspaper Zócalo de Saltillo, reportedly left the newspaper offices with two colleagues late on the night of 7 January 2010. In the centre of Saltillo, their car was intercepted by a group of men who forced Valdés and another, unnamed Zócalo reporter into […]
Visitors: 372Mexico Valentín Valdés Espinosa, co-founder of and journalist for the daily newspaper Zócalo de Saltillo, reportedly left the newspaper offices with two colleagues late on the night of 7 January 2010. In the centre of Saltillo, their car was intercepted by a group of men who forced Valdés and another, unnamed Zócalo reporter into […]
Indresh KumarIndresh Kumar is the senior member, National Executive, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Indresh Kumar is also the patron and the key person of the Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), an organisation of RSS, Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh. Vivek Umrao interviewed Indresh Kumar in January 2010 on various issues. Visitors: 591
Visitors: 403Mexico José Alberto Velázquez López, editor and owner of the daily newspaper Expresiones de Tulum, based in Tulum, Quintana Roo state, and a contributor to a local television station, was shot dead in Cancún on 22 December 2009. Velázquez was driving home after a Christmas party for the newspaper staff when he was followed […]
Visitors: 502Mexico José Alberto Velázquez López, editor and owner of the daily newspaper Expresiones de Tulum, based in Tulum, Quintana Roo state, and a contributor to a local television station, was shot dead in Cancún on 22 December 2009. Velázquez was driving home after a Christmas party for the newspaper staff when he was followed […]
Visitors: 340China Sydney PEN is shocked and dismayed by the sentencing of dissident Chinese writer and academic Liu Xiaobo to 11 years imprisonment on charges of “subverting state power”. The trial was held on December 23, 2009 in Beijing, following Liu’s detention late last year. The trial concluded without providing a verdict until Friday, December […]
Visitors: 489China Sydney PEN is shocked and dismayed by the sentencing of dissident Chinese writer and academic Liu Xiaobo to 11 years imprisonment on charges of “subverting state power”. The trial was held on December 23, 2009 in Beijing, following Liu’s detention late last year. The trial concluded without providing a verdict until Friday, December […]
Visitors: 384Canada Well let’s have a simple quick look at what “apparently” is too difficult for those of “apparent” authority to deal with. Let’s begin with, when last I checked adultery is illegal. Conspiring to do illegal things is illegal no?! Murder is illegal and if you conspire to commit murder even if you are […]
Visitors: 338Canada Well let’s have a simple quick look at what “apparently” is too difficult for those of “apparent” authority to deal with. Let’s begin with, when last I checked adultery is illegal. Conspiring to do illegal things is illegal no?! Murder is illegal and if you conspire to commit murder even if you are […]
Visitors: 397Pakistan Journalists For International Peace, strongly condemned the suicide bomb blast during 10th Muharram procession near Light House traffic signal on M.A. Jinnah road Karachi on Monday (28 Dec). The blast occurred at 04:13 pm , in which 43 innocent persons were martyred. The dead include 2 children and 1 Rangers official. More than […]
Visitors: 414Pakistan Journalists For International Peace, strongly condemned the suicide bomb blast during 10th Muharram procession near Light House traffic signal on M.A. Jinnah road Karachi on Monday (28 Dec). The blast occurred at 04:13 pm , in which 43 innocent persons were martyred. The dead include 2 children and 1 Rangers official. More than […]
Visitors: 509We have to accept that industries fail. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Detroit is kaput: we saw it coming, and we all know now.And it made good copy.Manufacturing went to China and India. There were blue collar casualties. We saw it coming, and it made good copy.Did we cry? Did we bother? […]
Visitors: 386We have to accept that industries fail. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Detroit is kaput: we saw it coming, and we all know now.And it made good copy.Manufacturing went to China and India. There were blue collar casualties. We saw it coming, and it made good copy.Did we cry? Did we bother? […]
Visitors: 332LONDON, UK/TORONTO, CANADA, December 25, 2009 International PEN, the world’s leading freedom of expression organization with 145 member centres in 104 countries, calls today’s sentencing of prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo a grievous betrayal of his inalienable rights as a Chinese citizen. In what amounts to a show trial, after weeks of courageous solidarity […]