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UN Secy. General Antonio Guterres said in his message for the International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women and Children that “every 11 minutes, a woman or girl is killed by an intimate partner or family member”. This article seeks to understand the roots of this violence.
In a representation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 42 farmers’ organisations, backed by senior scientists and experts, have said that the Government of India should stop misleading the Supreme Court “with untrue and incorrect” statements on GM mustard.
The recently introduced Bill in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly has received both praise and critique from different stakeholders. A look at the background of the Bill, its most important provisions in their current form, and a discussion of the criticism it has received.
Rahul Gandhi’s padayatra is meant to free present India from fear; Also: Report from MP – the Congress leader’s attack on BJP’s ‘vanvasi’ for ‘adivasi’, unemployment, inflation, and hate politics is gaining traction on ground.
Developments on the ground in Ukraine are showing that Washington’s best-laid plans are floundering. There are also growing signs of disunity on Ukraine issue among the European countries and between the latter and the US. Meanwhile, the Russian offensive continues to accelerate.
Discussion with Michael Jabara Carley, an international expert, on Soviet relations with the Great Powers between the two world wars, on questions of “appeasement,” the origins and conduct of the Second World War, and on major current issues.
On the language and practice of coloniality, which sustains inequalities at the global level and has done so for nearly 500 years of European empire-building.
To understand today’s protests in Iran, we need to look at the history of the Islamic Republic since 1979. Iran has a tradition of popular mobilization with few parallels in the modern world, and that tradition underpins the current wave of discontent.
If you take Mexico out of the equation, China has already overtaken the US as Latin America’s largest trading partner. Excluding Mexico, total trade flows — i.e., imports and exports — between China and Latin America reached $247 billion last year, far in excess of the US’ $173 billion.
On the fourth anniversary of his taking office on November 27, AMLO and his Moreno Party staged a march and then a rally in the Zócalo plaza in Mexico City. The crowd was such that the walk, with AMLO walking too, lasted five hours. Extracts from AMLO’s speech.
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