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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Vikas Meshram |Ashish Reddy |Aaron Kirshenbaum |Binoy Kampmark
Biodiversity and environmental conservation have become some of the most pressing global concerns today. The diversity of life on Earth, the interconnections between species, and the balance of natural ecosystems are crucial for human survival. However, increasing environmental interventions are disrupting this balance. Deforestation, pollution, climate change, and reckless consumption are leading to biodiversity loss and environmental degradation.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Hiren Gohain |Sanjay N. Parate |Andre Damon |Ashish Reddy
Since 2019, according to wildlife experts 200 elephants have been put in trucks with feet shackled by heavy chains and transported to Ambani’s new wildlife resort.It appears to be quite a wild venture as these poor beasts are kept confined to an enclosure and maintained under a strict routine.Some of them must be newly captured and given a short training in domesticated life.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sandeep Pandey |Makepeace Sitlhou |Chepal Sherpa |Ashish Reddy
Over the past one year Manipur has been witness to Meitei-Kuki conflict like nowhere seen even among Hindu-Muslim communities. Even if you may have totally segregated Hindu and Muslim residential areas like in some places in Gujarat, it is possible for a person of one community to pay a courtesy visit to the other community. But not so in Manipur. A Kuki government official cannot work in a Meitei area and vice-versa.
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May 30, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | P Sekar |S G Vombatkere |Ashish Reddy |Cedric Prakash
On May 1, 2024, the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) decided to defer the accreditation of India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC-India) for the second consecutive year. This decision, made during a meeting of the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) with representatives from New Zealand, South Africa, Honduras, and Greece,(The Hindu 13, May, 2024), marks a significant setback for NHRC-India.
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May 24, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | S G Vombatkere |Ashish Reddy |Cedric Prakash |Sumanta Banerjee
Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC, hereafter) was created under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 (PHRA, hereafter) to provide for the constitution of a National Human Rights Commission, State Human Rights Commissions in States, and Human Rights Courts, “for better protection of human rights and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto”. PHRA came into effect on 28.9.1993.
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May 14, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vicky Bond |Michael Hudson |Carlos Garrido |Ashish Reddy
The growing emergence of diseases from animals suggests that we need to rethink our reliance on animals as a food source. Human and animal health are closely linked, with many diseases shared between them. As our world becomes more developed and interconnected, the proximity between wild animals and humans is shrinking, increasing the risk of disease transmission. At the same time, humans are growing increasingly dependent on animals as a source of food.
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May 14, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Carlos L Garrido |Ashish Reddy |Nagesh Chaudhari |Bharat Dogra
In his early writings against censorship, Karl Marx proposed that it is insufficient to simply criticize censorship on the basis of how it depicts a limitation of our freedoms and rights. Far more important, he held, was the critical inquiry into the conditions for the possibility of censorship. Censorship, clearly, does not arrive out of thin air. It is produced by certain conditions which call it forth as a necessity for the dominant order.
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May 14, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ashish Reddy |Nagesh Chaudhari |Bharat Dogra |Neeraj Jain
The Karnataka state government passed the Licensing and Regulation of Protests, Demonstrations and Protest Marches (Bengaluru City) order 2021 in January 2022 which prohibits protest anywhere else in the city.[1] The 2021 order defined protest as “means the actions of congregation of one or more persons at one place, in a peaceful and lawful manner with the intention of showing dissent or expressing opposition or objection to issue(s) including political, social, religious, cultural, farmers,...
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May 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Makepeace Sitlhou |Chepal Sherpa |Ashish Reddy |Arun Mitra
On 3rd May 2024, it has been a year since the genocidal violence in Manipur has started, and it has continued to intensify across the year. As of 1st May 2024, there have been 185 people killed in the violence initiated by the ruling BJP-RSS combine with more than 200 villages burnt and more than 41,000 people displaced from Manipur.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Makepeace Sitlhou |Chepal Sherpa |Ashish Reddy |Arun Mitra
In March, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, said at an election rally in Arunachal Pradesh that previous governments had not cared for states that sent only two representatives to the country’s Parliament, as Arunachal and several others in the Indian Northeast do. Modi failed to see the irony of his claim given that he has not visited Manipur, which has only two representatives in parliament, since the outbreak of an armed ethnic conflict that has raged on for nearly a year.
