Women's water anxiety 'remains a black box' which hasn't been …
WEB1 day ago · In this situation, water anxiety is a black box yet to be identified, let alone to be open. Water anxiety must be seen as integral part of water (in)security caused by uncertainty about water availability, access, and quality. Since inadequate access to water is not just a physical health issue but also a significant mental health concern ...
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WEB4 days ago · Monday, September 23, 2024. By Bharat Dogra* In a world increasingly fraught with conflict and the looming threat of war, those who champion the cause of peace find themselves in challenging times. Yet, amidst this turmoil, it becomes vital to reflect on the individuals whose unwavering commitment …
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WEBCounterview Desk The Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG), consisting of former civil servants of the All India and Central services who have worked with the Central and State governments in the course of their careers, voicing its apprehensions on the recently enacted legislation linking Voter IDs to Aadhaar numbers, has said that the move poses "a grave threat to the integrity of the electoral ...
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WEBMay 1, 2024 · Counterview Desk The civil rights network* Forum Against Corporatization and Militarization (FACAM) has demanded judicial probe in the "killing of an Adivasi peasant Sono Juri during an anti-Maoist operation", and simultaneous "suppression of anti-militarization protest by Indravati Jan Andolan at Tadopot village ."
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WEBSunday, December 31, 2023. Counterview Desk As the year draws to a close, senior minority rights leaders Apoorvanand, John Dayal, ASR Mary Scaria SCJM, AC Michael, Minakshi Singh and Shabnam Hashmi have noted with agony the Prime Minister couldn't find to visit Manipur, the "site of the greatest communal crimes …
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WEBCounterview Desk In a complaint to the chairman, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), West Bengal-based civil rights leader Kirity Roy, secretary, Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), and national convenor, Programme Against Custodial Torture & Impunity (PACTI), has taken strong exception to the detention of Bangladeshi women in West Bengal and accusing and treating them as ...
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WEBNov 1, 2021 · Counterview Desk Addressing “fellow citizens”, the Constitution Conduct Group (CCG), having former prominent civil servants as it members, has said that recent assertions by National Human Rights Commission National Human Rights Commission Justice (retd) Arun Mishra, the Prime Minister and General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defence Staff, portent a deliberate and disturbing strategy to “deny ...
Misusing laws? Fresh proof of Govt of India 'violating' international ...
WEB2 days ago · PUCL urgently calls upon the government to stop targeting human rights defenders and imposing sanctions on civil society organisations using the legal machinery, thereby hindering crucial human rights work. The government must ensure laws passed are consistent with the international obligations concerning human rights and …
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WEBCounterview Desk Over 100 environmental and human rights organisations and 400 plus individuals have in a letter to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change demanded roll back of the Green Credit Rules 2023 and the methodology introduced under the Notification dated 22nd February 2024, which they say in effect provides incentive for forest diversion activities through green ...
Majoritarianism is not a crisis of democracy but of liberalism, needs …
WEBFeb 5, 2021 · He argued, “Representative parliamentary democracies are supposed to conjure up these majorities and so it is not the crisis of democracy but of liberalism, which is a different kind of crisis and needs a different kind of interrogation.”. He elaborated the idea of majoritarian in terms of numerical majority comprising socially and ...