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India-China-Bangladesh Dimapur declaration on water and indigenous communities rights May 20, 2013 A Statement from the Northeast Dialogue Forum We, the representatives of the indigenous people’s organizations of India’s North East concerned over the issue of water and adverse impacts…

WELL DONE, PAKISTAN! Pritam K. Rohila, Ph.D. For quite a while the media has been flooded with dire predictions by various analysts, commentators, and experts, about the future of Pakistan. But the May 11, 2013 elections have proved them wrong.…

A collaborative effort between people of the 15M, OWS, Occupy, Indignados, and YoSoy 132 movements. These notes are an attempt to summarise some of the common points between what are known as emerging movements, that is, the various social movements…

On May 12, 2013, Nathan Blanc was sentenced to a tenth term, of 28 days in prison. He had been released from military prison on Sunday, May 5, 2013, after serving a 20-day term for refusing to serve in the…

Throwing Gas on the Fire in North Korea     The U.S.-North Korea nuclear crisis is not over. While tensions seem to have eased in the past few weeks, the situation remains dangerous and potentially volatile. It is in this…

THE Savar tragedy is a symbol of our failure as a nation. The crack in Rana Plaza that caused the collapse of the building has only shown us that if we don’t face up to the cracks in our state…

People’s Movemenmt Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) Idinthakarai 627 104 Tirunelveli District Mobile: 9842154073, 9865683735 Email: koodankulam@yahoo.com For Immediate Release May 12, 2013 Fake Commissioning Planned at Koodankulam? With a view to freeing up Russia from supplier liability, charges of theft and…

Dear sisters and brothers,   We wholeheartedly support your demonstration on 13 May.  Article 318 allows the Turkish State to jail anyone who discourages people from joining the army, even if that army is from another country.  We support the…

On April 18, 2013, DC’s Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton re-introduced HR-1650, the “Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act“ for the 11th time WASHINGTON, DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic…

Time to Pay the Bill: China’s obligation to the victims of pneumoconiosis Two decades of unchecked economic growth has produced an occupational disease crisis in China that requires urgent action from the government. An estimated six million workers in China,…