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Indian Media Narrative regarding Communal Conflict in Bangladesh is Far from Reality

Since the fall of the Awami League, Indian media has portrayed Bangladesh as a nation plunged into chaos, highlighting alleged attacks on the Hindu minority in Bangladesh. The country, having more than 170 million people in about 8 percent of…

Hoekstra told not to bring fossil fuel lobby to COP29

As the EU’s climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra prepares for his hearing in the European Parliament to reprise his role for the next five years, more than a hundred civil society organisations have written to ask him not to bring fossil…

Korean American Peace Activist Christine Ahn Barred From South Korea

Women Cross DMZ is deeply concerned by the recent decision by the South Korean government to prohibit Women Cross DMZ Founder and Co-Director Christine Ahn, a longtime and prominent Korean American peace activist, from entering the country. This action raises serious…

Geopolitical Tug-of-War: The Complex Realities of Protecting Hindu Minorities in Bangladesh

In recent months, the Hindu minority in Bangladesh has become a focal point of international concern and geopolitical maneuvering, particularly from India, where prominent political voices are calling for global intervention to protect this community. The recent comments by Rashtriya…

Addressing the negative effects of climate change in Bangladesh

Climate change is accelerating at an alarming rate, altering the natural calendar of the natural environment. By Ibrahim Khalil Ahasan Crops are not being harvested at the right time, and water salinity and sea level are rising. Heavy rains, non-rainfalls,…

Venezuelan Dissidents Supporting Israel Receive Human Rights Award: European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize Goes to US-backed Opposition

The world’s peoples recoil in shock over the previously unimaginable barbarity of the US/Zionist assault on Palestine. The European Parliament is not impervious to what is transpiring. On the contrary, the body normalizes the cruelty by awarding its highest human…

Italian MEP Danilo Della Valle: The European left has forgotten the Ukrainians who are victims of war

There is a growing front in the European Parliament that fears an overly militarised Europe. MEP Danilo Della Valle (‘The Left’) has taken the initiative to ask MEPs to set up an intergroup for peace in Brussels to promote a…

Statement from Veterans For Peace: End Washington’s New McCarthyism!

In April, the U.S. House passed H.R. 6408: “An Act To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the tax-exempt status of terrorist supporting organizations.” It was introduced in the Senate as S. 1436. It sounds benign, but…

Interview with German MEP Sebastian Everding: Unlimited military support for Ukraine means more suffering

According to the human rights activist and German MEP, the European Parliament is now a fragmented institution where more than half of the MEPs do not share the social, environmental and economic initiatives aimed at ending the war. TASS: Interview…

Open Letter Published in New York Times Urging Biden to Reverse Trump’s Cuba Policy

October 22, 2024 – A letter addressed to President Biden has been published today in the NY Times, urging him to overturn Trump’s harsh Cuba policy during his final 90 days in office while Cuba is simultaneously going through a…

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