It was early part of last year when the chores of India as ‘mother of democracy’ had gathered pace. The summit for Democracy held in March, witnessed PM Modi in his virtual address sharing his pearls of wisdom as India…
Prologue It is a well-established fact that police, politics and state institutions are hugely biased against Muslims, Islam and the idea of minority rights in India. Despite facing challenges, constitutional autonomous authorities must function independently and remain impartial. Looking at…
The accreditation review of the National Human Rights Commission ofIndia (NHRCI), is scheduled to take place in the last week of March 2024 and in the last week of April 2024. This year, the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) of the Global Alliance…
Is US-Israeli tension over a potential military campaign on Rafah real? https://t.me/QudsNen/99726 "The extent of the horror exceeds our capacity to articulate it,” UNICEF spokesman James Elder said as he journeyed through Gaza this week, depicting scenes of complete devastation,…
To, Chairperson Maryam Abdullah Al AttiyahGlobal Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) Geneva, Switzerland Re: Review of the Accreditation Status of the National Human Rights Commission of India Dear Chairperson, We, the undersigned, are writing to bring to your…
At a time when the Indian media is increasingly being controlled by the rich and dominated by the caste elites, Countercurrents.org has set up an example of giving space to multiple voices. On the 22nd birth anniversary of the news…
Educationist and climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who has emerged as a respected leader of the people of Ladakh, ended his 21 day fast on March 26. He attracted a lot of admiration in several parts of the country, but did…
America and Israel are at Odds - how to End the Gaza War? Wars are paradoxes of conflicting political and individualistic interests - gains in the present and loss in the future. At times America supports Israel as if a…
United States and Russia seem engaged in diplomatic tiff over yet another issue, regarding who is responsible for the Moscow concert hall terror attack. US states that as per its longstanding “duty to warn” policy, it had warned Russia a…
Prosecutors representing the United States, whether by design or incompetence, refused — in the two-day hearing I attended in London in February — to provide guarantees that Julian Assange would be afforded First Amendment rights and would be spared the death penalty if extradited…
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