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On the ramifications of the recent agreement between the German and Namibian governments for special “reconciliation and reconstruction” projects to benefit the Ovaherero and Nama communities that were directly affected by colonial genocide.
The process has shown scant respect for human rights, rule of law and justice.
His lynching had sparked the #notinmyname campaign. However, four years later communal lynchings no longer seem to shock the public. A scary sign of the times.
On his birth anniversary, a look at a short essay by George Orwell which anticipated the clever narratives future dictators up until our times would weave assiduously.
Judgments of the Delhi High Court in Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita and Asif Iqbal Tanha’s cases, come as a whiff of fresh air which hopefully the Supreme Court will allow us to breathe.
Three UN Special Rapporteurs have noted that the broad phrasing of the IT Rules stand to seriously harm privacy and freedom of expression. The government has replied that it doesn’t think so.
By accepting land in lieu of justice, Muslims have sanctified their secondary status as a community that does not need justice.
Neoliberalism has yielded specific forms of state intervention to discipline and normalize the surplus population and to regulate social insecurity – workfare, debtfare, and prisonfare. They have also enormously benefited the growth and profitability of Big Tech.
The Archbishop, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, writes that 84-year old Father Stan Swamy who had spent decades serving the tribal people of Jharkhand, has been arrested on trumped up charges and confined to jail for nearly a year now. As he battles illness, his endurance has left a message for the world.
The signatories, including Noam Chomsky and Olga Tokarczuk, sought that the temporary order to release prisoners in light of COVID-19 be applied to these political prisoners as well.
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