Visitors: 382[themify_box] Irfan Engineer Director, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism [/themify_box] Heightened media coverage on the issue of triple talaq along with the statement of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chief Minister of UP Yogi Adityanath is causing harm to the struggle for gender justice within the Muslim community. Media coverage […]
Visitors: 384[themify_box] Irfan Engineer Director, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism [/themify_box] Heightened media coverage on the issue of triple talaq along with the statement of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chief Minister of UP Yogi Adityanath is causing harm to the struggle for gender justice within the Muslim community. Media coverage […]
Visitors: 442Vidya Bhushan Rawat ‘If you are black or you are brown or you are gay or you are lesbian or you are Trans or you are Introvert , Anyone that is treating you unkindly , It’s only because they are afraid or they have been taught to be afraid of how important you are. Because […]
Visitors: 570Roger Kotila PhD SAN FRANCISCO, April 18, 2017 – Democratic World Federalists need your help. The goal is to persuade the United Nations General Assembly to take a critical look at the aging and fundamentally flawed UN Charter in order to “upgrade the global operating system” to “UN 2.0” as one young world federalist […]
Visitors: 741Rosa Dalmiglio For the past 40 years the UNESCO World Heritage Convention has conserved protected and presented the Outstanding Universal Value of our shared heritage. These unique natural and cultural wonders represent our past and present and belong to all. World Heritage properties are important travel destinations that if managed property have great potential […]
Visitors: 837[themify_quote]“He who would understand the Plains must ascend the Eternal Hills, where a man’s eyes scan Infinity. Be he who would make use of understanding must descend on the Plains where Past and Future meet, and men have need of him.” — Talbut Mundy, Om-The Secret of Abbor Valley[/themify_quote] Talbot Mundy was born in England […]
Visitors: 755Rene Wadlow UNESCO is stressing global citizenship education to meet the challenges of the 21st century by developing a sense of belonging to a common humanity, sharing values and responsibilities. Global citizenship education aims to give a profound understanding that humanity will respond creatively to the challenges of our times. Global citizenship education promotes […]
Visitors: 473Vidya Bhushan Rawat What is the meaning of victory of Farooq Abdullah from the Srinagar constituency where not even 7% votes polled. In many of the booths merely 2% votes were polled. I know there are past precedences of such a situation in at least three Indian states when people boycotted and government determinedly […]
Visitors: 553[themify_box] Kate Raworth She is a renegade economist focused on exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges, and is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries. She is a Senior Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, where she teaches on the Masters […]
Visitors: 375 If anyone is worried whether the prospect of a major war, which many of us considered almost inevitable if Hillary Clinton had attained the White House, is back on track, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit to Moscow was cold comfort. From his remarks together with his counterpart Sergey Lavrov, there is now […]
Visitors: 638Our modern Western nationalism has an ecclesiastical tinge, for, while in one aspect it is a reversion to the idolatrous self-worship of the tribe which was the only religion known to Man before the first of the ‘higher religions’ were discovered by an oppressed internal proletariat…it is a tribalism with a difference. The primitive religion […]
Visitors: 480[themify_box] Robert J. Barsocchini is an independent researcher and reporter whose interest in propaganda and global force dynamics arose from working as a cross-cultural intermediary for large corporations in the US film and Television industry. His work has been cited, published, or followed by numerous professors, economists, lawyers, military and intelligence veterans, and journalists. […]
Visitors: 520Leib Moshe (Lion of Moses) Humanity is on a rapid collision course with a dystopian nightmare. Reckless economic activity is driving rapid global warming which in turn is effecting dangerous climate change threatening to make much of the Earth uninhabitable. Wars, threats of wars, terrorism, and dangerous heavily armed recalcitrant groups have left many […]
Visitors: 4,402Christopher Caldwell Senior Editor, The Weekly Standard Christopher Caldwell is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard. A graduate of Harvard College, his essays, columns, and reviews appear in the Claremont Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Book Review, the Spectator (London), Financial Times, and numerous other publications. He […]
Visitors: 585Anthony J. Marsella Ph.D. [themify_quote]More than Nations . . .[/themify_quote] Contrary to the widespread myth, nations are not the sole source of massive international political, economic, and social international events, forces, and changes. It is true the story of history is often told with nations as the grand hand behind unfolding events. Reality, however, […]
Visitors: 459Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
Visitors: 47212 April 2017, PEN International welcomes today’s acquittal of all defendants in the OdaTV case and calls on the Turkish authorities to immediately release all those held in prison for exercising their rights to freedom of opinion and expression, and to end the prosecutions and detention of journalists simply on the basis of the […]
Visitors: 441[themify_quote] The defense of those using their conscience to uphold humanitarian international law. The Association of World Citizens calls for the re-affirmation of humanitarian international law. It is a call to the soldiers and militia members in armed conflicts to refuse orders to violate humanitarian international law by refusing to use weapons outlawed by […]
Visitors: 532[themify_quote]13 – 14 September 2017 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea[/themify_quote] The heart of the tuna industry will be bustling again come September 13-14 this year with the largest tuna convention of the Pacific set to take stage in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. This year, the 6th Pacific Tuna Forum which will take place […]
Visitors: 1,010(RPI) Thursday’s US missile attack on Syria must represent the quickest foreign policy U-turn in history. Less than a week after the White House gave Assad permission to stay on as president of his own country, President Trump decided that the US had to attack Syria and demand Assad’s ouster after a chemical attack […]
Visitors: 484[themify_quote] “Are there not such spirits among us ready to join in the noblest of all adventures— the building up of a civilization —so that the human might reflect the divine order? In the divine order there is both freedom and solidarity. It is the virtue of the soul to be free and its nature […]
Visitors: 434Dr Moin Qazi [themify_quote]“The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as a Muslim’, or ‘as a Chinese you should give priority to this national engagement’) is not only an imposition of an external and arbitrary priority, but […]
Visitors: 450Amb. Sergio Duarte 10 Apr 2017 – The nine possessors of nuclear weapons and most of their allies chose to ignore the negotiations on a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination. This unprecedented initiative resulted from a proposal by South Africa, Austria, Brazil, Ireland, Mexico and Nigeria and […]