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Due to the IPRs, countries struggle to access supplies of drugs and vaccines, especially at affordable rates. While at WTO, India has put forth the TRIPS waiver proposal, domestically it continues to oppose grant of compulsory licenses.
The difference between the MSP declared for ten kharif crops and that calculated according to the Swaminathan Commission formula ranges between Rs 611 per quintal to Rs 2,027.5 per quintal, depending upon which one of the ten crops is chosen.
The CPI(M) does not regard the BJP’s repeated attempts to destabilise the West Bengal government as a threat to federalism but as a political tussle between TMC and BJP, forgetting that this struggle is very similar to the struggles of the Jyoti Basu government against the Centre in the 1980s.
Judge Anand Venkatesh described his quest to tackle his ‘ignorance and prejudice’ about same-sex relationships. Ajay Kumar thanks the judge for making him and millions of people like him feel like they belong to this society and that this society acknowledges their existence.
The strike, which marks its 1-month anniversary today, continues unabated. Women’s presence in the national strike—both as activists and as victims—has caught the world’s attention. Many have spoken out against police violence and sexual abuse during the current demonstrations.
Not long ago pundits eulogized the death of Latin America’s “Pink Tide,” which had ripped the continent out of the once-sturdy hands of U.S. imperialism. But victory appears to be sprouting from the freshly plowed fields of defeat; the entire hemisphere is rising up once again.
It is curious that the three American countries that are suffering harsh economic sanctions from the United States are doing much better than the others in their fight against Covid-19. One thing is certain: the pandemic has highlighted the crisis of the neoliberal and capitalist model.
Castillo, the son of illiterate peasants, overcame vicious media attacks and is on the verge of defeating Keiko Fujimori, the scion of a Peruvian political dynasty; however, the right, backed by the USA, is trying to steal the elections.
Venezuela’s National Assembly has approved two bills with the aim of further empowering the communal councils and communes that lie at the heart of the country’s project of communal power. However, commune activists have raised concerns about the real intentions behind these bills.
The US counted on the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), to control Ethiopia and thereby the Horn of Africa for 30 years, but it’s struggling to regain control now that the TPLF is out of power and the new government in Ethopia is charting an independent foreign policy.
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