Red Alert: Only One Earth
A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Making Peace with Nature (2021), highlights the ‘gravity of the Earth’s triple environmental emergencies: climate, biodiversity loss, and pollution’.
Myanmar: The People’s Struggle Against the Coup Continues – Two Articles
Interview with Myanmar activist in Korea, Yan Kyaw Moe, about the political situation in Myanmar and the people’s struggle against the military coup; Despite being arrested and assaulted, Myanmar journalists say they won’t be intimidated by army.
COVID-19 and Crimes Against Humanity: What the Nuremberg-Hague Trials Can Teach Us
To let people die for want of food, and air now, is tantamount to the genocides that scarred forever the 20th century. The Allahabad high court was making exactly the same point.
India’s COVID-19 Crisis Isn’t Just Modi’s Fault. It’s Ours, Too.
Even though the buck most certainly stops with Modi, there is a very real danger in blaming him alone for the devastation all around. Because if we do so, we will miss learning the critical lessons as a nation.
Farmers Find Novel Ways to Keep Movement Alive – Four Articles
Farmers Burn Copies of Farm Laws Across the Country as Part of Call for ‘Sampoorna Kranti Diwas’; Dispute Simmers Between Govt and Farmers in Haryana; Far Away From Media Attention, Rural Punjab Keeps Farmers’ Protest Alive.
Academic Freedom Is at Stake. We Must Stand in Solidarity With Professor Gilbert Sebastian.
Teachers have a right to have their opinion. They do not have to set aside their political opinions and ideologies before entering a classroom.
Appointment of Justice Arun Mishra as Chairperson, NHRC: Another Move to Subvert & Destroy Democratic Institutions
We, the members of various Human Rights Organisations and Concerned individuals, condemn the appointment of former SC Judge, Shri Arun Kumar Mishra, as the next Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India by the selection Committee headed by the PM.
PM Must Intervene, Stop Misinformation Campaign, Recognise Covid Martyr Medics: IMA Chief
Indian Medical Association (IMA) president Dr J.A. Jayalal tells SabrangIndia that attacks on doctors are a big worry, as is delay of compensations to medics martyred to Covid-19, and misinformation being spread about vaccines.
COVID-19: Report Reveals Severity of Food Crisis Faced by India’s Poor in 2020
Report by prominent economist Jean Dreze and Anmol Somanchi highlights the severe economic distress and food crisis suffered by a vast majority of Indian poor following the 2020 lockdown. It demands a stronger wave of relief measures to avoid a repeat of the crisis.
How Second Wave Is Decimating Rural Economy
The government says that the economic impact from the second Covid-19 wave will be less than that of the first. But economists point to signs of a growing rural economic crisis, and call for urgent relief measures to ward off long-term damage.