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• Bilkis Bano’s Case Amidst a Maddening Political Race! | Nilofar Suhrawardy

  3 September 2022, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  Nilofar Suhrawardy
  This is a mad, mad world with even most celebrated leaders and of course extremely condemned ones too engaged in a maddening race. Rather than take measures to check it, strategies seem to be extensively and intensively devoted to prolong not one but numerous races at different levels provoking participants to exert as much energy as they can. It is not just the question of speakers going hoarse, protestors tiring out, victimized losing hope, soldiers having no choice (…)

• Bilkis Bano & Brahminical Insensitivity | Kobad Ghandy

  3 September 2022, by Kobad Ghandy

  On the same day that the PM was waxing eloquent on the importance of Stree Shakti from the ramparts of the Red Fort, 11 prisoners convicted for life for the brutal gang rape of Bilkis Bano and many of her family members and the murder of 14, were given remission by the Gujrat Government and released. The action has shocked not only the nation but also the entire world, given the gruesomeness of that gang rape and murder.
  A member of the Committee that ordered the release was the BJP MLA (…)

• The 2021 Military Coup in Myanmar and the Rohingya Outlook: Interview with Aung Kyaw Moe | Nazia Khan

  3 September 2022

  Myanmar, is a country of 54 million people and acts as a link between South and Southeast Asia. At the time of independence from Britain in 1948 a democratic government was in place. In 1962 a military coup brought rule of a military junta that lasted for decades. The military-junta rule faced opposition from pro-democracy activists which included Aung Sang Suu Kyi, the leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD). The 8888 Uprising and 2007 Saffron Revolution forced the military junta (…)

• An Ocean of Violence | Humra Quraishi

  3 September 2022, by Humra Quraishi

  31 August 2022
  Sit up. Read these latest officially released figures related to rape and crime against women in the country After one has gone through these startling shocking facts and figures, can one stop oneself from raising question after question on the release of the rapists of Bilkis Bano!
  To quote from news reports: India registered 31,677 cases of rape in 2021. That is an average of 86 daily, while nearly 49 cases of crime against women were lodged every single hour, according (…)

• Demise of Mikhail Gorbachev - Press Release by CPI (Aug 31, 2022)

  3 September 2022

  Communist Party of India
  New Delhi,
  August 31, 2022
  Press Release
  CPI Condoles Demise of Mikhail Gorbachev
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (on August 31, 2022) the following message expressing party’s condolences at the demise of Mikhail Gorbachev:
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India expresses its deep sorrow and heartfelt condolences at the demise of former general secretary of Communist Party of Soviet Union (CPSU) and (…)

• Mikhail Gorbachev: The reformer who was ahead of his time | Anuradha Chenoy

  3 September 2022, by Anuradha M. Chenoy

  Gorbachev was overtaken by events and characters within Moscow that created the basis for the collapse of the Soviet Union
  by Anuradha Chenoy
  Mikhail Gorbachev, reviled by some, celebrated by others, stepped into the pages of a history which is cited, written and rewritten but cannot be forgotten.
  Remembered primarily as the leader of the now-disintegrated Soviet State that desperately tried to modernise and catch up with the West, Gorbachev was overtaken by events and characters (…)

• Socialism | Sylvia Pankhurst

  3 September 2022

  Text of Unsigned front page article by Sylvia Pankhurst, Workers’ Dreadnought, 28 July 1923
  Socialism means plenty for all. We do not preach a gospel of want and scarcity, but of abundance.
  Our desire is not to make poor those who to-day are rich, in order to put the poor in the place where the rich now are. Our desire is not to pull down the present rulers to put other rulers in their places.
  We wish to abolish poverty and to provide abundance for all.
  We do not call for limitation (…)

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  Statement by All India Bank Employees Association against the increasing attacks on girls and women

  3 September 2022

  ALL INDIA BANK EMPLOYEES’ ASSOCIATION Central Office: “PRABHAT NIVAS” Regn. No.2037 Singapore Plaza, 164, Linghi Chetty Street, Chennai-600001 Phone: 2535 1522 M- 984 00 899 20 Web: www.aibea.in
  PRESS RELEASE
  By C.H. VENKATACHALAM, GEN SECRETARY, AIBEA MRS. LALITA JOSHI, NATIONAL CONVENER, AIBEA’S WOMEN’S COUNCIL
  2-9-2022
  AIBEA’s National Women’s Council strongly condemns and protests against the increasing attacks on girls and women
  The recent incidents of pouring petrol and (…)

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  UN Human Rights Office assessment of human rights concerns in Xinjiang, China | 31 August 2022

  3 September 2022

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  Contents I. Introduction ........................................................... 1-3 II. Background ............................................................ 3-5 III. China’s legal and policy framework on countering terrorism and “extremism” ... 5-6 A. Clarity and scope of concepts of “terrorism” and “extremism” ........ 6-8 B. Methodologies applied to identify suspects and “at risk” persons (…)

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  Declaration of Celebration of Dissent adopted at Celebrating Dissent Conference 2022, Cologne

  3 September 2022

  DECLARATION ON THE CELEBRATION OF DISSENT
  As atheists, agnostics, ex-Muslims and freethinkers we stand for a world in which all human beings enjoy freedom of expression and conscience, and freedom from fear and want.
  We claim our freedom from religion, from superstition.
  We claim our freedom to love and live as we choose, to creativity and to enjoy the benefits of scientific and human progress.
  We affirm our right to act with reason and conscience.
  Apostasy and blasphemy are (…)