75 years of revolution: How China moved away from ideals of …
Sep 29, 2024 · On October 1st, we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution, a pivotal moment in the struggle for human liberation. From 1949 to 1976, China achieved remarkable social equality and revolutionary democracy, outpacing other developing nations in literacy, health care, agricultural output, and industrial production.
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Human life depends on water, but currently, many parts of the world face a shortage of clean drinking water. This crisis could be the seed of many future disasters. Although about 71% of the Earth is covered with water, only 2.5% of it is fresh and suitable for drinking. A large part of this fresh water is trapped in glaciers and ice caps.
We visited the drying Great Salt Lake, a significant contributor to ...
1 day ago · Even as we visited the Great Salt Lake, the saltiest lake of the Western Hemisphere, as part of our effort to see different places around Salt Lake City, better known for hosting winter Olympics in 2002, I was surprised two read two articles first in New York Times and then the website of the National Public Radio (NPR), an American public broadcasting organization, both of whom quoted a study ...
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Counterview Desk The Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG), consisting of former civil servants of the All India and Central services who have worked with the Central and State governments in the course of their careers, voicing its apprehensions on the recently enacted legislation linking Voter IDs to Aadhaar numbers, has said that the move poses …
Hindu supremacists 'influencing' well-meaning US …
1 day ago · Hindu supremacists 'influencing' well-meaning US centrist, progressive institutions. In a sharp admission, several Indian diaspora human rights groups in the US have regretted that there is “a lack of awareness about Hindu supremacy” in the country, leading to “well-meaning centrist and progressive institutions to mis-recognize Hindu ...
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Counterview Desk In a complaint to the chairman, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), West Bengal-based civil rights leader Kirity Roy, secretary, Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), and national convenor, Programme Against Custodial Torture & Impunity (PACTI), has taken strong exception to the detention of Bangladeshi women in West Bengal and accusing and treating them as ...
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May 1, 2024 · Counterview Desk The civil rights network* Forum Against Corporatization and Militarization (FACAM) has demanded judicial probe in the "killing of an Adivasi peasant Sono Juri during an anti-Maoist operation", and simultaneous "suppression of anti-militarization protest by Indravati Jan Andolan at Tadopot village ."
NHRC failing to 'effectively address' human rights violations: NGO ...
Sep 21, 2024 · Pointing out that these and other facts were submitted to SCA even on October 1, 2023, raising concern over restrictions on civic space, reprisals against human rights defenders (HRDs) in India, and NHRC’s failure to effectively address urgent human rights violations, AiNNI-ANNI said, in May 2024, there were third-party submissions on "serious human rights violations against ethnic and ...
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Sunday, December 31, 2023. Counterview Desk As the year draws to a close, senior minority rights leaders Apoorvanand, John Dayal, ASR Mary Scaria SCJM, AC Michael, Minakshi Singh and Shabnam Hashmi have noted with agony the Prime Minister couldn't find to visit Manipur, the "site of the greatest communal crimes and human tragedy since Gujarat ...
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Counterview Desk Over 100 environmental and human rights organisations and 400 plus individuals have in a letter to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change demanded roll back of the Green Credit Rules 2023 and the methodology introduced under the Notification dated 22nd February 2024, which they say in effect provides incentive for forest diversion activities through green ...