2023

While the many-sided destruction that has taken place and is taking place in the Ukraine conflict is a matter of deep concern, there are two related matters which should cause even higher worry and concern. Firstly, it is deeply worrying that despite 16 months of conflict having passed, there appear to be no signs today of any breakthrough for bringing peace.
Secondly, many well-informed analysts have repeatedly voiced the warning that the more this war gets prolonged, the greater the risk (…)

In all probability hundreds, if not thousands, of mass graves are dotted across Sri Lanka, containing the bodies of tens of thousands of victims of enforced disappearances from two insurgencies between 1983 and 2009. The victims include both Sinhalese and Tamils, the island’s majority community and the largest ethnic minority respectively. But the Sri Lankan state, even as it seeks global help to keep itself afloat economically, is simply not bothered to either punish those responsible for (…)

by Cressida Bowyer, Keiron Roberts, Stephanie Northen *
May 30, 2023
Recycling was once considered the obvious solution to the excessive amount of new (or virgin) plastic produced each year. This is no longer realistic. Global recycling capacity simply cannot keep up with the taking, making and wasting of natural resources.
Growing mountains of plastic waste are accumulating in the poorest countries as affluent nations such as the UK ship their recycling overseas. But some nations are (…)

June 26, 2023
Press Statement
IMSD supports a religion-neutral, gender-just UCC Ironically, in secular India the ulema continue to cling to medieval, patriarchal notions of gender relations in the name of Islam. Contrary to their false claims Muslim Personal Law is not God-given but man-made. In recent decades, a large and growing number of Muslim countries, including some which call themselves Islamic states, have reformed their family laws. (…)

National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) National Office: A/29, Haji Habib Bldg., Naigaon Cross Road, Dadar (E), Mumbai – 400014 Social Media: @napmindia | E-mail: napmindia[at]gmail.com | Blog: www.napmindia.wordpress.com | Web: www.napm-india.org
UP Govt’s ‘Bulldozer Raj’ on Gandhian Institutions Condemnable
NAPM calls for resistance against ‘Gujarat to Varanasi Model of Demolition’!
30th June, 2023: NAPM condemns the brazen and disgraceful attempts by the Bhartiya Janata (…)

Central Committee, CPIML New Democracy
Press Note 30 June 2023
Central Committee of CPIML ND has condemned the firing on Bhim Army, Chandrashekhar Ravana by armed goondas on 28th June in Saharanpur.
State machinery is overtly protecting gangs who are aligned to the RSS and serve it’s political rule. Yogi govt should either get these criminals arrested or resign.
Attacks on dalits by criminal landlord elements and gangs in UP are on the rise in recent past. Attack on Chandrashekhar is (…)

A three-member fact-finding team comprising NFIW (National Federation of Indian Women) General Secretary Annie Raja, National Secretary, Nisha Siddhu, and Deeksha Dwivedi, independent Delhi-based lawyer visited Manipur from 28th June to 1st July, 2023.

Press Release from Soulèvements de la Terre
In France, over the past two weeks, more than thirty arrests have been made in environmentalist circles, and attempts have been made to dissolve Les Soulèvements de la Terre, despite the fact that more than 100,000 people have publicly claimed to belong to the movement, and despite the support of dozens of trade unions, farmers’ organisations, associations, parties, MPs, senators and intellectuals.
21 June 2023
Press Release from Soulèvements (…)

Anjali Deshpande and Nandita Haksar have just written a book that simply has to be read by anyone interested in the welfare of industrial workers in India. This is also a must reading for all Japanese people involved with human rights to get a glimpse of the havoc their companies cause in the lives of innocent workers and poor people in developing countries.
The reference here is to a book on victimized Maruti Suzuki workers titled ‘Japanese Management, Indian Resistance—The Struggles of (…)

BOOK REVIEW
by Joydip Ghosal
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No nation for women, reportage on rape from India, the world’s largest democracy
by Priyanka Dubey
Simon & Schuster India 2019 / 320 pages ISBN- 978-93-86797-09-4 __0__
No nation for women: Reportage on rape from India, the world’s largest democracy is the outcome of an intangible confluence of the private and lived experience of suffering mass. It becomes amply clear that while authoring the book the writer unequivocally empathises with (…)