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• Plastic recycling is failing – here’s how the world must respond | Bowyer, Roberts, Northen

  1 July 2023

  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 (…)

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  Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) Supports a Uniform Civil Code (26 June 2023)

  1 July 2023

  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. (…)

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  UP Govt’s ‘Bulldozer Raj’ on Gandhian Institutions Condemnable - Statement by NAPM (30 June 2023)

  1 July 2023

  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 (…)

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  Attack on Bhim Army leader Chandrashekhar - Press Note, CPIML New Democracy 30 June 2023

  1 July 2023

  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 (…)

• NFIW Fact-Finding Mission to Manipur - Press Release on 3 July 2023

  1 July 2023

  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.

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  France: Press Release from Soulèvements de la Terre, 21 june 2023

  1 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 (…)

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  Will the Government Heed This Book That Makes A Strong Case for Justice to Victimized Maruti Workers | Bharat Dogra

  1 July 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  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 (…)

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  Review: No nation for women, reportage on rape from India | Joydip Ghosal

  1 July 2023

  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 (…)

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  Caricature: Tribute to Sylvester da Cunha | Jayaraj Vellur

  1 July 2023
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  Cartoon: Unequal attention on shipwrecks | Awantha Artigala

  1 July 2023

  Cartoon: Unequal attention on shipwrecks | Awantha Artigala
  (courtesy: Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka - 23 June 2023)