Online Censorship: Government’s Favourite Pastime Activity
While it is necessary to regulate the content posted on social media platforms, it cannot be done to stifle dissent and criticism of the government.
Iran’s Feminist Revolution: Two Articles
Many of Iran’s most vocal feminists are languishing in prison. Nevertheless, women in Iran continue their fight. Through their fight, women in Iran are building solidarity that transcends national, class, racial and religious lines.
CAA-NPR-NRC: The Law Is Being Weaponised Against the Constitution
This three-pronged assault will result in a humanitarian crisis as large as the one in Assam. In a population of 3.3 crore in Assam, 1.3 crore have been impoverished and socially disbarred by being interminably denied citizenship.
Demand to Withdraw ‘Anti-Environment, Anti-Adivasi’ Forest Conservation Rules 2022
A coalition of adivasis and forest dwellers’ organisations has sent a memorandum to the MoEFCC Ministry raising serious concerns over Forest (Conservation) Rules, 2022, recently notified by the Centre, saying that it threatens the rights of Adivasis and forest dwellers.
Scheduled Tribes: Adivasi or Vanvasi
Ram Madhav of RSS stated that if they are called Adivasis, then it will mean that others have come from outside. According to the ideology of Madhav and his organization, we (Hindus) are all original inhabitants of India. Presentation of this narrative has deeper political implications.
25 November: International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women
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.
Corporate Weapons Heaven Is a Hell on Earth
U.S.-supplied weaponry has fuelled conflicts, enabled human-rights violations, and helped destabilize not just individual countries but entire regions.
SC Decision on EWS Reservations Strikes at Basic Structure of Constitution
The People’s Union for Civil Liberates (PUCL), India’s premier human rights organisation, has said that the Supreme Court judgement, upholding reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), strikes at the “basic structure of the Constitution”.
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China Talks Marxism, But Still Walks Capitalism
The message from the recent Congress of the Communist Party of China is continuation of ongoing restructuring of the economy toward capitalism, albeit on Chinese terms and keeping the “commanding heights” of the economy in state hands.
‘Every Idea Is an Incitement’: Where Is the Line Between Democratic Protest and Sedition?
There is a deep and growing disquiet over decisions of the Central and state governments and of courts of different jurisdictions on the incarceration of political dissenters and human rights defenders.