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Humanity is facing its greatest existential threat ever with climate change and resource depletion. This is not a crisis waiting to happen in the future, but it is already here and manifests itself in the many resource wars going on in several parts of the world, rising food and fuel prices, growing hunger, natural calamities of horrifying proportions, water scarcity, debt crisis, unemployment, social tensions among communities, growing human rights violations and unprecedented ecological degradation. Unless we take urgent action to change the way we live, trashing our only home, this beautiful planet earth, this crisis has the potential to wipe out the entire humanity and a majority of the other species from the face of this earth. Source

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When the Children Become the Target

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By Vijay Prashad Verified
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On June 23, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel released one of the most devastating reports ever produced by a UN investigative body on the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Its title is almost unbearable to read: The Essence of Childhood Has Been Destroyed. Behind the title lies an accusation of extraordinary gravity.
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PUCL deplores the deployment of Criminal Contempt Proceedings against fair and legitimate criticism of the functioning of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma

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PUCL deplores the criminal contempt proceedings initiated against former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, senior AAP leaders, and journalist Saurav Das. These proceedings strike directly at the right to raise legitimate questions of conflict of interest in the judiciary as well as the appearance of impropriety in the judicial conduct of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma.
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Arbitrary Disenfranchisement and Passport Denial: Wake Up Keralam Condemns the Misuse of SIR Against Journalist R. Rajagopal

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R Rajagopal Wake Up Keralam strongly condemns the arbitrary removal of prominent journalist and former Editor of The Telegraph, R. Rajagopal, from the electoral rolls and the subsequent denial of renewal of his passport by the authorities. The fact that even a well-known journalist of repute like Mr. R.
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Two Children Among Seven Palestinians Killed in Israeli Attacks on Gaza Amid Daily Ceasefire Violations

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Gaza (QNN)-  At least seven Palestinians, including two children, were killed and several others wounded in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip as Israel continues its attacks on the Palestinian enclave despite the so-called ceasefire. On Sunday, an Israeli drone struck the al-Salatin area, west of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, killing at least two people and wounding at least one more. In southern Gaza, Israeli forces bombed a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis.
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ESCWA: The War on Lebanon Displaces 140,000 Older Persons

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By Marwan Asmar
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The recent conflict has displaced around 20% of the Lebanese population, including an estimated 140,000 older persons, many of whom are living in dire conditions. This is revealed in a new policy brief issued, Monday, by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), titled “Conflict and its shockwaves: older persons amid war and displacement in Lebanon”.
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Twenty Years After the Forest Rights Act, Adivasis and Forest Dwellers Continue to Be Denied Their Legitimate Rights

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By Prakash Kumar Samantsinghar
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Bhubaneswar, Odisha :Twenty years have passed since the enactment of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, which was passed to redress the historical injustice suffered by Adivasis (Scheduled Tribes) and traditional forest dwellers. However, even after two decades, the realization of their legitimate rights remains elusive.
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India Needs a Democratic Alternative, Not Political Spectacle – Beyond the Cockroach outline

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By Ranjan Solomon
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“Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.” — Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Words matter. They matter even more when they are spoken by those who occupy the highest constitutional offices. They shape public discourse, legitimise attitudes and often signal the moral direction of institutions.
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South Africa’s Migration Debate Is Missing The Bigger Picture

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By Marisa Lourenço
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South Africa’s migration debate is overwhelmingly focused on what happens when migrants arrive. Politicians argue about deportations and documentation. Activists focus on xenophobia and human rights. Journalists report on violence and vigilantism. The question no one asks Far less attention is paid to a simpler question: across Africa, why are so many people leaving home for South Africa in the first place?
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In Congo, a Newly Complex Ebola Emergency

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By Merveille Assani
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KINSHASA, DRC — When people first began dying in the dusty hills of Mongbwalu, a gold-mining town in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, few suspected Ebola. It all started in late April, when a nurse returned to Bunia, the 1.5-million people capital of Ituri. He fell ill and died a few days later. As is tradition in many communities in the region, relatives, neighbors and loved ones then gathered in nearby Mungbwalu to pay their last respects.
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Gaza Digs Under The Rubble For Its Dead With No Resources

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Gaza – 12-year-old Mohammed Riyad Ghabboun isn’t waiting for a new house atop the rubble of his family’s home in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City. Instead, he’s waiting for the remains of family members who have been buried under the rubble for the last eight months, hoping Civil Defense teams will finally dig them up and place them proper graves.
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