Robert Campion

Sep 24, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Soumyanetra Munshi |Simi Garewal |Tarique Niazi |Robert Campion

In an idyllic three-storey house, nestled amongst a rich garden of all kinds of flowers and fruit trees, playing host to most of the birds, insects and even monkeys, Samarpita, staying alone in her ancestral house, was going about her usual morning chores on Wednesday morning when water began to flow in and flood her garden, and the ground floor.

Sep 23, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Simi Garewal |Tarique Niazi |Robert Campion |Shania Scotland

Last month, South Korea’s Constitutional Court delivered a landmark ruling that has reverberated across the region and beyond. In a decision unprecedented in Asia, the court determined that the country’s current climate measures are inadequate for protecting citizens’ rights, particularly those of younger generations who will suffer the most from the consequences of climate change.

Sep 23, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Tarique Niazi |Robert Campion |Shania Scotland |Marcelo Mena

Bangladesh was still reeling from political turmoil, which felled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government on August 5, when a flood disaster struck out of the blue, upending the lives of 6 million Bangladeshis. Half a million people were left to their own devices, beyond the reach of first responders. Worst of all, . Dhaka had not seen a deluge like this in the past three decades. Yet the country is no stranger to disasters. Just in May this year, it was , devastating millions.

Sep 21, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Pradeep Baisakh |Robert Campion |CJ Polychroniou |T Vijayendra

New York, 21 September 2024: As world leaders meet at the UN Summit of the Future on 22-23 September to forge a new international consensus, civil society groups and people’s leaders representing some of the world’s most marginalized communities are uniting across from UN headquarters for a Global People’s Assembly to demand meaningful changes that address the root causes of global injustice and solutions that prioritize the needs and rights of those left behind.

Sep 21, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Omar Raad Chowdhury |Farooque Chowdhury |Robert Campion

An explosion occurred, in the early afternoon on 21 August, at the Escientia Advanced Sciences, a pharma firm’s plant, in the Achutapuram Special Economic Zone, Anakapalle, near the port city of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh (AP). At least 17 people died and 41 were injured. Around 380 employees work in two shifts at the plant. The accident took place during lunchtime around 2:15 pm, averting a major disaster.