High Court Delivers ‘Victory’ for Rights of Nature Movement in Ecuador
On December 1, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador ruled that mining in a protected forest violates the rights of nature established by the nation’s constitution.
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On December 1, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador ruled that mining in a protected forest violates the rights of nature established by the nation’s constitution.
Since 1980, there have been over 100 actions in support of nuclear disarmament by Plowshare nuns in the U.S., the U.K. and Europe. The name comes from the Bible: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares … nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
The year 1961 culminated with the fervent hope for concrete progress towards disarmament, but that hope is severely dented even sixty years on.
While opting to snub Russia and China from the summit, the US has invited many countries which can hardly be classified as democratic: from apartheid Israel, to Brazil, whose leader Jair Bolsonaro this summer declared that “only God can oust me.”
Whether selling cigarettes or deposing world leaders, Edward Bernays molded reality like clay. In his hands, words spun like so many hollow jars. However, the one constant, the one truth among his many distortions, is that Bernays had no use for the truth.
The particular and very dangerous form of the present-day “Ukrainian crisis” has arisen as a result of the way in which the USSR was destroyed; and of the coup engineered by Nuland, Brenner and Pyatt in Kiev, back in 2014.
With the failure of the US-backed TPLF terrorist coup attempt against the democratically elected government of Ethiopia, the USA is facing its greatest strategic blunder since losing Iran in 1979.
Protesters are not convinced by the UN and AU’s position that democracy can be won by accepting a government where the real levers of power are held by the military while a cabinet of technocrats is paraded before the international community to maintain the facade of ‘joint military-civilian rule’.
The NFHS-5 data shows an increase in severe wasting in children under five; The more alarming thing is the 8 percentage points’ rise in the fraction of children suffering from anaemia; What NFHS-5 Data Tells Us About Indian Women’s Use of Period Products.
The proposed privatisation of two CPSUs, namely, Central Electronics Ltd. (CEL) and Bharat Earth Movers Ltd. (BEML), runs counter to the Atma Nirbhar idea, whose intention is to build self-reliance in the different sectors of the economy.
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