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Peoples Dispatch
International Criminal Court Announces Investigation into War Crimes in Palestine
04 Mar 2021
The announcement comes a month after the ICC ruling which declared that it had jurisdiction to conduct an investigation into suspected war crimes in Palestine.
Peoples Dispatch
UN and Others Urge Egyptian Government to Stop Persecution of Activists in the Country
14 Feb 2021
Thousands of activists, journalists, lawyers and opposition figures have been thrown in prison in the country as part of a massive, ongoing crackdown on human rights and dissent since the regime of…
Newsclick Report
Disability Rights Organisations, Activists Write to Amit Shah, Ask that NCRB Maintains ‘Disaggregated Data’ on Violence Against Disabled Women
22 Jan 2021
They added that in an advisory issued on September 28, 2020 the National Human Rights Commission had recommended that the NCRB maintain data on PwDs too.
Newsclick Report
India Drops to 131 Among 189 Countries in UN’s Human Development Index
17 Dec 2020
India's HDI value for 2019 was 0.645, which put it in the medium human development category. Singapore, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia performed the best among the Asian countries and were deemed to have…
Newsclick Report
Farmer Protests Draw Strong Diaspora Support; Solidarity Rallies in US, UK, Canada, Australia
07 Dec 2020
The ongoing farmer agitation has gotten support from Indians living abroad in several nations like the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
Rosamma Thomas
Intl. Organisations Ask UN’s FAO to Pull out of Partnership with Pesticide Firms
25 Nov 2020
On November 19, over 350 organisations from 63 countries wrote to the FAO expressing their distress and reminding the FAO of organisation’s priority to minimise the damage caused by chemical…
Peoples Dispatch
Organizations Across the Globe Condemn Moroccan Aggression in Western Sahara
18 Nov 2020
The Moroccan military launched an attack on the Sahrawi village of El-Guerguerat on November 13, violating a three-decade-old ceasefire in the disputed Western Sahara region
Lautaro Rivara
Haiti has a Long History of Being Assaulted by its Latin American Neighbors
23 Oct 2020
A 15-year peacekeeping mission by the UN in Haiti that ended one year ago still has unanswered questions about how Latin American nations came to participate in the occupation against a small,…
Sandipan Talukdar
Restoring Degraded Natural Landscape Could be Highly Effective in Mitigating Climate Change
20 Oct 2020
New research has suggested a mitigation process that would require a third of the planet’s most degraded areas to be restored.
Newsclick Report
‘Full-fledged Denial of Justice’: UN Expert on Massive Slum Demolition along Rail Tracks in Delhi
28 Sep 2020
The expert said that any eviction that results in homelessness is a serious violation of human rights and a breach of India’s international obligations.