NHRC, India organises its core advisory group meeting on environment, climate change and human rights https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=2085429&reg=3&lang=1

On December 4, 2024, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution approving the text of a proposed treaty governing the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity (CAH treaty). ...CAH are governed only under the Rome Statute, which includes specific criminal acts such as murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, torture, imprisonment, and rape committed as part of a ‘widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack’. CAH were first codified in the 1945 London Charter establishing the Nuremberg Tribunal 

Draft Articles:  https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/draft_articles/7_7_2019.pdf  crimes against humanity  treaty

https://cahtreatynow.org/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/opinion/internet-privacy-project.html Companies and governments are gaining new powers to follow people across the internet and around the world, and even to peer into their genomes. The benefits of such advances have been apparent for years; the costs — in anonymity, even autonomy — are now becoming clearer. The boundaries of privacy are in dispute, and its future is in doubt. Citizens, politicians and business leaders are asking if societies are making the wisest tradeoffs. 

Bad Corporate Loans and Their Write-offs Are Draining the Economy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6MAR_F_F24 The Wire In March 2015, the total NPAs were at Rs. 3.23 lakh crore. This increased to Rs. 10.36 lakh crore in March 2018, the highest in the history of the country. In March 2023, NPAs came down to Rs. 5.71 lakh crore. Did the defaulter companies suddenly decide to pay their dues on time? No, it is only because the banks decided to let them go, and wrote off half of their debts. Contrast this with the life of the common man, whose entire family is haunted to recover the loan amount. Is the system working for the people who deposit their hard earned money in the banks? Or the corporates who get hefty loans at throwaway interest rates?

@Srichand47 
This globe runs on the axis of "Powerful Vs Powerless" ...Not on the axis of "Dharm Vs Adharm".... Unfortunately.... we citizens lost our track,  by keep believing exactly the opposite, for entire life. Become Powerful enough to stop the injustice..just believing in "Justice"  won't change the system. 

@bindaasmard664 It's been going for decades now. For instance tata group took over Air India (AI) recently which used to be a state (gov) owned airline only after gov write off it's debt. Ironically it was JRD Tata who founded AI and then under Nehru's socialist agenda was forced to hand it over to the gov. Ever since AI got under gov control it's decline began so much so that it had more than 40K crores of unpaid loan on it when vijay mallay fled the country who's kingfisher airline had become defaulter in some 9K crore loan. No gov babu (AI used to be headed by some senior IAS officer) was ever held accountable for debt that piled up in AI books for so many decades. By 2023 the estimated default debt on AI had rose to over 60K crores which tata group made gov to write off it's books before taking over the AI. 

• larger design to use this legislation to settle scores with political adversaries and ideological dissenters.
• tendency to defame and gag all those who keep our democracy from turning into an elected autocracy
•  “special laws” that bypass the procedural safeguards under the law of the land; misuse is the principal use of such laws. 

Shri Fadnavis should come up with specific charges and prima facie evidence thereof ,  release the list of such "Maoist frontal organisations" in the BJA and name the BJA participants in the foreign meetings that he referred to.

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Parliament Scuffle I "Congress Targeted Amit Shah, He Wont.." I Ambedkar Row I Who Hit Whom?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsNmGDHq3og   As the controversy surrounding Home Minister Amit Shah's remarks over Ambedkar stirred up protests, a scuffle broke out between the BJP & Congress outside the Parliament gate, resulting in the hospitalisation of two BJP MPs' and an FIR being filed against LoP Rahul Gandhi. 

Amid the high octane drama in Delhi, BJP workers vandalised a Congress party office in Mumbai.

 Opposition, BJP MPs jostle in Parliament premises  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9fKN3dey2c| Faye D'Souza The country witnessed high drama as a face-off between the opposition and NDA MPs broke out in Parliament premises over the alleged insult to B R Ambedkar on Thursday. As the Parliament session is all set to end on Friday, several other crucial socio-economic issues did not find a place in the public and political discourse, observes Faye D'Souza.

Editorial with Sujit Nair | ‘Building Ram Temple Doesn’t Make You A Hindu Leader’  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NlWPG1O17g : Mohan Bhagwat In this episode of Editorial, Mr. Sujit Nair discusses the recent statements by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat. Bhagwat has conveyed a message of harmony while addressing the ongoing temple-mosque dispute. Mr. Nair questions why Bhagwat makes such neutral statements only after elections. He also highlights the disconnect between Bhagwat’s statements and the actions of Sangh-affiliated organizations. 

Faye D'Souza

The mosques and dargahs that are targeted are not merely places of worship but it is part of our rich syncretic tradition. It’s a testimony of the melting pot that India is acclaimed for the world over. Any contestation on such places of heritage is an assault on the composite culture of India.

It is ironical that such demands are acted upon by the courts despite of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, which ensures that the religious character of the place of worship doesn’t change and is maintained as it was on 15th August, 1947. This legislation intended to prevent conflicts and any threats to these places of worship in the future...

--demands and assaults on mosques and dargahs are threatening to deepen fault lines and plunge the country into darkness of untruth, communal violence and injustice.

we are also troubled with your silence as the Prime Minister of the country, on such frenzy demands and urge you to condemn such demands unequivocally to stop the spiral of contestation and communal churning. Nothing less than these measures will instil confidence, sense of security and law in the minds of the citizens of this country.

 Mohandas Pai questions wage disparity in India Inc  salaries at the top have risen sharply. “Look at an IT CEO's salary five years ago, and look at it now—it has gone up 50-60%. Board compensation has increased by 20%, 30%, even 40%. But for the bottom 20%, wages have only risen by 20-25%.”

The disparity is even worse for contract employees. A Quest study shows that their wages have increased by just 1-2% over the past five years. These workers, often in roles like janitors, shop assistants, and electricians, earn salaries tied to stagnant minimum wages. “There is a great degree of exploitation of the bottom 50%, and India Inc has to really pay them better,” Pai asserted.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/no-safe-place-than-jail-chief-justice-on-delhi-journalists-bail-request-1926805  

Journalist-political commentator Abhijit Iyer-Mitra,  was arrested on September 20, 2018 in Delhi, after he posted a video on Twitter of his visit to the famous 13th century Sun temple in Konark. He had allegedly made objectionable remarks about Lord Jagannath and "vulgar sculptures".

The Odisha police told the court that he had "made unpalatable and irresponsible remarks about Konark Sun Temple with an intention to outrage and to hurt religious feelings which may create communal friction."

The journalist was let off on bail by a lower court and asked him to appear before the Odisha police by September 28. However, the journalist didn't join in the investigation alleging threat to life. 

When Mr Iyer-Mitra's lawyer argued that his life was under threat, the Chief Justice said, "If your client is facing threats, there is no better place than jail."