Generations lost: Qalandrani family highlights Balochistan’s enforced disappearance crisis
Sammi Deen Baloch, a prominent human rights activist, condemned the detention of Mir Yousaf Qalandrani, a resident of the Tootak area in Khuzdar.
Sammi Deen Baloch, a prominent human rights activist, condemned the detention of Mir Yousaf Qalandrani, a resident of the Tootak area in Khuzdar.
The dharna by right-wing and environmental activists to save “Dol Ka Badh,” a 100-acre urban forest grove in Jaipur, continued for the 13th consecutive day on Saturday.
Environmental activists began a relay hunger strike in the Rajasthan capital here on Thursday, even as deadlock with the government over their demand to save the green forest grove in "Dol Ka Badh" continued since last Sunday.
The 8th National Convention of the Right to Food and Livelihood Campaign concluded here on Monday with a renewed resolve to struggle for the right to food, especially in conflict-affected areas in India and abroad.
Over 400 people were detained on Saturday, according to the police, including 12 for incitement. Activists said Thunberg was freed later.
Last June, Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong that targets secession, subversion, terrorism and foreign collusion in the city’s affairs. Over 100 people have been arrested under the national security law.
"Fr Stan had given his entire life to ensure the rights of the marginalized people, and he had been never silent for the rights of the poor people. But he had been arrested under false charges and he died in an inhuman, insensitive manner. We will carry forward his movement for social justice,"
AISA president N Sai Balaji said it is shameful that a time when the number of coronavirus cases has crossed 1.65 lakh in the country, the government is targeting student leaders.
Nine farmers from Sabarkantha and Aravalli districts were sued by PepsiCo in two separate courts for allegedly growing a variety of potatoes for which the company has claimed plant variety protection (PVP) rights, and sought damages ranging from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 1 crore from each of them. Agitated by PepsiCo's earlier decision to sue potato growing farmers for allegedly growing a variety of potato registered by it, around 25 major farmers' bodies of Gujarat and the country, including Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), along with activists and NGOs have decided to form a central body - Seed Sovereignty Forum - to protect farmers' rights on seeds. A meeting to chalk out an action plan under this umbrella body was held on Friday at the Gujarat Vidyapith here, said farm rights activist, Kapil Shah of NGO 'Jatan'.
Four Hong Kong activists were sentenced to jail on Wednesday for their role in pro-democracy demonstrations.
