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Violent Conflicts Trap World’s Poorest as 1.1 Billion Face Acute Poverty
  • Politics
  • October 17, 2024

Researchers determined that 1.1 billion people are living in poverty, and 455 million of them are struggling to afford basic necessities while “living in the shadow of conflict.”   By JULIA CONLEY Oct. 17, 2024   Violent conflicts have contributed to pushing nearly half a billion people across the globe into acute poverty, and have […]

Adivasi Villagers Resist Cutting of Trees in Hasdeo Forest, One Youth Injured in Police Lathicharge
  • Peoples' Movements
  • October 17, 2024

Adivasi villagers protesting against the forcible illegal deforestation in the Parsa Coal Mine in Hasdeo forests of Chhattisgarh were brutally lathi-charged by the police. Ramlal Kariyam, an activist of Hasdeo Bachao Sangharsh Samiti, and many protesting adivasi villagers were seriously injured.    Groundxero | October 17, 2024   Protesting felling of trees for Parsa coal mine in Hasdeo forests […]

The Ongoing Workers’ Struggles Across Sectors in India : Solidarity Meeting
  • Labour
  • October 16, 2024

Labour activists, journalists, writers and lawyers, under a group named ‘Delhi for Workers’, organised a solidarity meeting for the ongoing workers’ struggles across sectors in India at the Press Club of India, New Delhi, to highlight these significant struggles, and inviting members of the press and concerned citizens to know and write more about these […]

Demand accountability for the death of GN Saibaba: PUDR
  • Press Release
  • October 15, 2024

Under the Rule of Law and principles of natural justice, People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR)  demands accountability from state agencies for the unlawful incarceration and subsequent death of Saibaba through relegation to inhuman prison conditions and callous and active neglect.     People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) mourns the death of activist, teacher […]

Extermination Works. At First.
  • Palestine
  • October 15, 2024

Israel will continue its mass killing to achieve its immediate goals, but in the long run the blowback from its genocide will doom the Zionist state.   By CHRIS HEDGES   Extermination works. At first. This is the terrible lesson of history. If Israel is not stopped — and no outside power appears willing to […]

NPRD expresses deep shock and profound anguish at the untimely death of Dr. G N Saibaba
  • Press Release
  • October 13, 2024

The National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) salutes Dr. G N Saibaba who was a fighter for the poor, the marginalized and the downtrodden. A person with disability, Saibaba had certain pre-existing health conditions. He was implicated in false cases by the State. The long incarceration in the anda cell of the Nagpur jail in […]