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A new law passed by the Indian Parliament aimed at addressing sexual violence, while positive in some respects, has several deficiencies and also violates India’s international law obligations, Amnesty International said. The upper house of the Indian Parliament passed the…

Sudhir Gandotra, Humanist Party of India General Secretary, participating at the Seminar : Humanism & Contemporary Politics, presenting a paper under the category of Social, Political and Moral Crisis – titled: “On the development of Humanist Party of India” Today’s…

The setting was the Bangladesh consulate on Connaught Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong, where about twenty Bangladeshi, mostly businessmen and women, and one junior representative gathered. Messages from Bangladesh President Md. Zillur Rahman, and Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni, MP, were…

Since the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site 20 years ago, Kazakhstan has been committed to put an end to nuclear weapons. Last year, the Nazarbayev Center was created in Astana to pursue this fight. Roman Vassilenko, Deputy Director…

Godzilla, a giant monster mutated by nuclear radiation, first appears in a 1954 Japanese science fiction movie by the same name, ravaging Japan in a symbolic warning about the risks of nuclear weapons. For a couple of decades Godzilla was…

US Secretary of State John Kerry should publicly express concern about Uzbekistan’s deteriorating human rights situation during his meeting with the Uzbek foreign minister on March 12, 2013, and press for concrete improvements, Human Rights Watch said today. Foreign Minister…

Undoubtedly the country is at a critical juncture. What’s gonna happen in the next week or two will clearly determine where the country will be in the next 40 or 50 years. It’s no longer just about the trial of…

FUKUSHIMA 2013 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE the video…   See Pressenza Events before… 9th March 2013 Time: 12:00 – 18:00 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Room Y409 Speakers: (1) A speaker from @3aKoriyama on the recent happenings in Fukushima and the current state of health…

Today there is widespread disgust and hatred across Bangladesh against the Jamaat-e-Islami, the principal Bangladeshi voice of political Islam. Jamaat stands condemned for its support for Pakistan during 1971 when it embraced a forefront role in collaboration with the genocidal…

For those of us, who learned about our liberation war of 1971 through history books or from our parents, the 2013’s Shahbag has a different, unique and important meaning. Don’t get me wrong, nothing can be compared with ’71, nothing…