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WEB5 days ago · Counterview Desk Arguing that the Bengali-speaking Muslims of Santhal Pargana are Indians and not Bangladeshi infiltrators, in a joint statement, the civil rights groups Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha and the Loktantra Bachao Abhiyan have argued that their fact-finding team that by coming up with such propaganda, "BJP aims to create social and political rifts between Adivasis, Hindus, and ...
Born two decades ago, how the banned Maoist party failed to …
WEB6 hours ago · On September 21, exactly two decades ago, the now banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) (CPI-Maoist) was established. It was born following the merger brought of two factions—the Maoist Communist Centre of India, primarily based in Bihar and West Bengal, and the CPI (ML) People’s War—after more than 30 years of intense armed struggle and internal conflicts.
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WEBBy Ashi Datta Gender mainstreaming (the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels) became popular in several international institutions, including financial institutions like the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank, in the 1990s ...
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WEBCounterview Desk As the year draws to a close, senior minority rights leaders Apoorvanand, John Dayal, ASR Mary Scaria SCJM, AC Michael, Minakshi Singh and Shabnam Hashmi have noted with agony the Prime Minister couldn't find to visit Manipur, the "site of the greatest communal crimes and human tragedy since Gujarat 2002 and Kandhamal, Orissa 2008."
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WEBCounterview Desk In a complaint to the chairman, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), West Bengal-based civil rights leader Kirity Roy, secretary, Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), and national convenor, Programme Against Custodial Torture & Impunity (PACTI), has taken strong exception to the detention of Bangladeshi women in West Bengal and accusing and treating them as ...
Review Arunachal mega hydro project, stop repression of anti …
WEB7 hours ago · In a representation to Pema Khandu, Chief Minister, Arunachal Pradesh, several senior activists and legal experts belonging to the advocacy group National Alliance for Justice Accountability & Rights (NAJAR) have sought review of mega hydro projects, even as asking him to stop repression against environment human eights defenders and indigenous people’s povements of the State.
No change in India's political perception regarding development …
WEB5 hours ago · The situation demands a closer examination of our national policies and practices regarding environmental protection. A recent report predicting that New Delhi could see temperature increases of 4.5 degrees Celsius in the next 60 years serves as a sobering reminder of the catastrophic climate impacts we could face unless we implement effective measures now.
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WEBMay 1, 2024 · Counterview Desk The civil rights network* Forum Against Corporatization and Militarization (FACAM) has demanded judicial probe in the "killing of an Adivasi peasant Sono Juri during an anti-Maoist operation", and simultaneous "suppression of anti-militarization protest by Indravati Jan Andolan at Tadopot village ."
International Energy Agency floats new plan to end oil, gas, and …
WEBIn major shift, International Energy Agency (IEA)’s World Energy Outlook has mainstreamed 1.5°C pathway, showing need to end oil, gas, and coal expansion, insisting on new fossil fuel phase-out benchmarks in order to test government ambition ahead of COP26.
Majoritarianism is not a crisis of democracy but of liberalism, needs …
WEBFeb 5, 2021 · He argued, “Representative parliamentary democracies are supposed to conjure up these majorities and so it is not the crisis of democracy but of liberalism, which is a different kind of crisis and needs a different kind of interrogation.”. He elaborated the idea of majoritarian in terms of numerical majority comprising socially and ...
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