Monday, February 21, 2022

CC Newsletter 21 Feb - Hindus for Human Rights to lobby US Congress and Gov against Hindutva hate campaign against Muslims


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In a forceful and passionate interview, where both her anger and anguish are clearly visible, the Executive Director of Hindus for Human Rights, a US-based civil society organisation, says that her organization will “certainly intensify and escalate” efforts to lobby the US Congress and Biden Administration to speak out against Hindutva and India’s treatment of minorities and muslims in particular

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Hindus for Human Rights to lobby US Congress and Government against Hindutva hate campaign against Muslims
Press Release


In a forceful and passionate interview, where both her anger and anguish are clearly visible, the Executive Director of Hindus for Human Rights, a US-based civil society organisation, says that her organization will “certainly intensify and escalate” efforts to lobby the US Congress and Biden Administration to speak out against Hindutva and India’s treatment of minorities and muslims in particular



Paralysing Afghanistan: Washington’s Regime Change Agenda
by Dr Binoy Kampmark


Nothing is more counter-intuitive than the effort to isolate, cripple and strangulate the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.  For all the talk about terrorism and concerns about failing regimes, the Biden Administration is doing every bit to make this regime fail and encourage the
outcome it decries. Along the way, a humanitarian catastrophe is in the making.



Esoteric neutrinos and People’s concerns: The Indian Neutrino Observatory
by S G Vombatkere


Tamil Nadu has reportedly made clear to the Supreme Court that it does not want the Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) to be set up in a sensitive ecological zone in the Western Ghats at great cost to wildlife, biodiversity, and by ignoring the local opposition and public agitations to the project.



Public Trust as a Non-negotiable Duty of the Indian State
by Akanksha


Proposed electoral reforms not only evokes a procedural and constitutional debate, but has deeper implications for India’s engagement on the idea of public trust



Assault on the idea of education
by Sandeep Pandey


Now when the schools and colleges have reopened, girls are not only being prevented from entering campuses but are being suspended and a lecturer had to resign not on the ground of any academic laxity but for putting on hijab. When non-academic issues dominate the academic ones on campuses then we know that education no longer remains a process of enlightenment.



Disturbing increase in child labour during Covid
by Madhav Sharma


There has been a steep increase in child labour in the country during the Covid pandemic period that shows severe economic distress among large sections of the population.



UNHRC is duty bound to find justice to the oppressed Tamils in Sri Lanka
by Kumarathasan Rasingam


The United
Nations, UN Human Rights Council and the International Community will now understand Sri Lanka’s policy of non-compliance of any recommendations of the UN or UNHRC.



Peoples Welfare Democracy Conference at Barnala
by Harsh Thakor


“Confide in struggles not in elections” called the Peoples Welfare Rally. of the Bharatiya Kisan Union Ekta(Ugrahan).On February 17th farmers, farm-labourers, women, youth, industrial labourers, contractual labourers and toiling people flooded Barnala grain market. Scene resembled a festival of the masses. Revolutionary democratic spirit was elevated to a height rarely transcended or scaled in Punjab or even India, with an attendance of around 70000 people.



How the Indian community has been crushed by Governments and Markets
by Sonit Surana


It seems
people in power are annihilating us on all fronts of life, from economic to political. This dystopia in which we are suffocating can never be forgotten; the images from walking workers to dying patients gasping for breath should always remind us that democracy cannot be taken for granted



Where is India Headed? And where lies the Inspiration for Change?
by Atul Sood


Book Review: Where is India Headed? An Historical Critique by  Dr Vinod Mubayi 





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