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Bhopal Anniversary - Call to Action

Survivors have sustained a 29 year struggle for justice. It is because of this sustained struggle that survivors have been able to achieve a number of important victories...

(DA NANG) - December 2/3 2013 marks the 29^th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial disaster –the Bhopal Gas Disaster.

The anniversary will mark 29 years since the people of Bhopal, India were exposed to 40 tons of the highly toxic, methyl isocyanate (MIC) due to the negligence of the American-owned Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), which is now owned by the Dow Chemical Company.

India: Sick from Distorted Development

The inequities in health care provision represent the extreme levels of inequality and social injustice pervading the country, as the Lancet makes clear, “mainly because of insufficient government funding for health”.

(LONDON) - India has recorded two decades of around 9 per cent growth, which has produced umpteen rupee billionaires who live in decadent luxury in the cities.

Along with the government, which is seduced by all things corporate, they turn a comfortable blind eye to the hundreds of millions living in rural poverty and those in slums on the other side of town, where children play beside open sewage, where there are no functioning toilets or latrines, where child malnutrition is rife and where there are no health care facilities worthy of the name.

India Steps Up for Battered Sri Lankan Tamils, Finally

Lawyers of Supreme Court and Members of the Delhi Tamil Advocates Association hold Mass Protest March in New Delhi condemning the inaction of International Community in bringing war criminals of the Sri Lankan Regime to Justice.

(SACRAMENTO / DELHI) - Advocates for Sri Lankan Tamils are moved by a mass protest against the war crimes of Sri Lanka that was held today in Delhi.

Visvanathan Sivam, whose name is familiar to those engaged in this struggle, called the news from Lawyers of Supreme Court and Members of the Delhi Tamil Advocates Association "most welcome". Sivam is not alone.

PAKISTAN: Human Rights Ambassador Condemns Attack on Sardar Mushtaq Gill

Supporting victims who have been accused of blasphemy and maltreatment for their faiths is a high risk.

(Washington, D.C) - On 2 November 2013, gunshots were fired in the street outside the home of human rights defender Mr Sardar Mushtaq Gill in Pattoki Tehsil, Kasur District, Punjab Province.

In recent months, Sardar Mustaq Gill has been intimidated by various means, including violent threats. Sardar Mustaq Gill is the National Director of Legal Evangelical Association Development (LEAD) which is based in the province of Punjab.

India Shouldn`t Have Denied Visa to Callum Macrae

No Indian visa for Sri Lanka war documentary maker.

(CHENNAI Times of India) - India has denied a visa to Callum Macrae, the director of a documentary that exposed war crimes in Sri Lanka.

Macrae, whose team was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last year, made news again last Thursday when UK's Channel 4 telecast footage acquired from him showing LTTE TV anchor-actor Isai Priya's capture during the last phase of the Lankan war. Priya was found dead on May 18, 2009, with visible marks of torture.

Tamil Nadu Protest on Sri Lanka CHOGM Targets New Delhi, London

The Queen of England, the permanent president of Commonwealth, has failed to expel Sri Lanka from the CHOGM, the organisors of the protest said.

(LONDON TamilNet) - Do not conduct Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka and suspend Sri Lanka from Commonwealth till a referendum on independence of Eezham Tamils is held under UN supervision, demanded protestors belonging to 12 political parties and movements that participated in a protest in front of the British Deputy High Commission in Chennai and the Shastri Bhavan office of the Central Government of India at Nungambakkam on Friday.

Describing the protest as a siege on Indian and the UK offices in Chennai, May 17 Movement, the organisors of the protest, characterised the Sri Lanka CHOGM as a ‘neo-colonial summit’.

Expose: Full Text Of Sharma`s Buried 2nd Report: CJ Impeachment Was Unlawful

The whole matter was a complete cover up by Britain with the connivance of India, whose agent was Kamalesh Sharma. it is all an attempt to save Sri Lanka from international investigations into violations of Human Rights, in which India was complicit.

(MELBOURNE) - The Colombo Telegraph fully exposed the burial of the second report on the sacking of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake by Rajapaksa, requested by the Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma. Please read how he justifies his act.

His cover up of both the reports from the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) paved the way for the holding of CHOGM in Colombo.

REVIEW: Left to Right, Decline of Communism in India

“Left to Right” is a basic reference book that should be read by all practitioners or students of revolution, of socialism-communism, of Marxism.

(COPENHAGEN) - T.G. Jacob, an Indian scholar and former Maoist activist, has written a tour de force about the century-long history of India’s many communist parties.

Left to Right, Decline of Communism in India’s main contribution is its description and analysis of these parties’ failures and it does so without stooping to anti-communism or in pandering to the capitalist class.

Human Rights Tyranny

In the nearly four decades that have passed since my presentation with Five Minutes To Midnight of the everyday reality of global poverty, there has been some progress in addressing it, but not nearly enough.

(GENEVA ) - The title of my contribution to this conference is taken from paragraph three of the Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. QUOTE “It is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law” UNQUOTE

The problem, I say, is that there is no universal enforcement of the rule of law to ensure and protect human rights. Why not?

Student Activists on the Move in Tamil Nadu

Conference of youth in Chennai raises voice against the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting set to be held in Sri Lanka...

(MELBOURNE) - Today you will find the most genuine activist in Tamil Nadu are the students.

They sacrifice their education for the Tamil cause. They are a force to reckoned with in the future.