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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
A day after a judge of the Supreme Federal Court ordered a criminal investigation against Jair Bolsonaro in the Covaxin scandal, hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets in 350 cities and towns to protest against the government and demand that the president be impeached.
In 2018, PM Narendra Modi was awarded the United Nations ‘Champion of the Earth’ award. This, despite the fact that among the first things the Modi government set to work on after assuming office for the first time in 2014 was dismantling the laws that protect the environment.
As we stand at the intersection of freedom and state control, the judiciary is the only hope. Though that hope has also faded in recent years, our challenge is to not give up the Sisyphean fight to set governmental authoritarianism at naught.
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.
Having blundered on the COVID-19 vaccine front, the Narendra Modi government now appears to be pandering to the demands of the vaccine multinationals. They are demanding relaxation in three aspects of the Indian regulatory regime governing vaccines.
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.
The project is facing resistance due to ecological concerns and also because the locals fear it would lead to loss of livelihood.
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.
We, the members of various Human Rights Organisations and Concerned individuals, condemn the appointment of former SC Judge, Shri Arun Kumar Mishra, as the next Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India by the selection Committee headed by the PM.
It’s the systemization of harassment and the weaponization of every possible piece of law to persecute opponents and critics of the government that are extenuating individual freedoms and civil liberties. So, while the Supreme Court’s decision to review the constitutional validity of Section 124A is welcome, it is not enough.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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