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The pictured delegation traveled to Jeju Island, Korea and Okinawa, Japan to stand with local movements opposing U.S. bases in their communities.  A party was given in their honour with beer, food, traditional music and dancing.  Some of the younger…

Dear Friends, A total of 54 journalists are currently being held hostage worldwide, versus 40 this time last year – a 35% increase. Journalists are easy targets for radical groups such as the Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front, who use…

Dear readers, I am thrilled to share with you ILRF’s new 100-page report Our Voices, Our Safety: Bangladeshi Garment Workers Speak Out. For a quick glance at the core issues it addresses, check out my short piece on Huffington Post.…

Human Wrongs Watch More than 16 million babies in 2015 were born in conflict zones such as Afghanistan, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen or on perilous journeys to escape fighting, which translates to 1 in 8 of all births worldwide,…

Democracy and Non-Violence go hand-in-hand, or should. In a true democracy there would be no violence and that is the strongest indicator of its presence. Conversely, in situations, whether political or other, non-violence is apparent when everything is running smoothly…

Goodbye my friend Dipak Mahanta  It was early Nineties, when I was assigned to report on a theatre production at Tezpur, a small town in central Assam. I was then a novice journalist and when my editor CP Saikia asked me…

Nuclear tree falls in Paris at COP21 From Beyond Nuclear newsletter http://www.beyondnuclear.org/ Although the COP21 climate accord got mixed reviews among environmentalists, there was one definite cause for celebration: the nuclear industry came away disappointed.  Despite a full court PR…

Three months ago, Jeremy Corbyn shocked the world when he was elected head of the Labour Party in Britain, becoming the country’s opposition leader, vowing to return the Labour Party to its socialist roots, championing the renationalization of public transportation,…

Yesterday, in the Hall of the Former Presidents, in the National Assembly of Ecuador, a public forum took place with the title “Towards a Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty”.  It’s of great importance that such an event could take place because…

Human Wrongs Watch By Roberto Savio* Rome, 17 December 2015 In the space of just a few days, two fundamental lessons have come from Paris for the world about democracy and climate. The media have been dealing with them as…