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Bill Gates and 47,500 Cases of Paralysis

18.April,2012 By Joe Samuel Food Freedom News In India, Monsanto hired Bollywood actors to promote genetically engineered cotton seed to illiterate farmers. Nana Petakar became a brand ambassador for Monsanto. The advertising has been called “aggressive, unscrupulous and false.” Bill… Continue Reading →

Syrian Nun Plays Key Role in Medical Underground

By Adel Mansur WeNews correspondent Tuesday, April 17, 2012 An activist doctor in Syria has a hero he calls “Sister Nanique.” The Catholic nun stockpiles medical supplies to help treat those wounded in the resistance. Here he tells the story… Continue Reading →

Joint Statement–Palestinian Prisoners’ Day with call for action against Israeli prison contractor G4S

17 April 2012–“Joint Statement: Palestinian civil society and human rights organisations mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day with call for action against Israeli prison contractor G4S 17 April 2012—Today, on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, we the undersigned Palestinian civil society and human rights… Continue Reading →

The Left’s Untouchable

Why was Ambedkar’s critique of caste anathema for Indian Marxists? MANASH BHATTACHARJEE, in Outlook Magazine It’s an abiding mystery of Indian politics: why the Left has consistently shown an uneasy reluctance to seriously engage with B.R. Ambedkar’s thoughts. When Ambedkar… Continue Reading →

BBC Provides Horrific Testimonies on Forced Sterilization in Uzbekistan

April 12, 2012 – The BBC has a horrifying new report on the forced sterilization of women in Uzbekistan. Stories have been leaking out for years about doctors secretly performing hysterectomies on women who have given birth in hospitals. The… Continue Reading →

Status of the Implementation of Sachar Committee Recommendations for Social, Economic and Educational Development of Muslim Community

Backgrounder: The Government took decisions on the recommendations of the Sachar Committee (Prime Minister’s High Level Committee on Social, Economic and Educational status of the Muslim Community of India) pertaining to various Ministries/Departments. The status of implementation of the decisions… Continue Reading →

Seeing Red over Pink

Public outcry foils Komen plan to ditch Planned Parenthood  Sukey Wolf April 2012 Graphic by Lian Amaris When Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the country’s leading breast cancer advocacy group, announced in early February that it would no longer… Continue Reading →

Dalits denied water in K’pada village

Monday, 09 April 2012  PNS | KENDRAPADA Dalit ward in Ghagara gram panchayat under Nikirai police limits was denied Government pipe water facility by the sarpanch who took the decision at the behest of her father because many residents of… Continue Reading →

Prof. Sarah Hodges on Reproductive Health in colonial India

Prof. Sarah Hodges, University of Warwick, explains her research on “family planning” and reproductive health in colonial India. Her  work  is on the social and cultural history of modern South Asia, specifically the politics of health in colonial and postcolonial… Continue Reading →

At Home with Violence: Ethnic LIfe in Colombo by Sharika Thiranagama

  Colombo, where every anti-Tamil riot in Sri Lanka has begun, is, at the same time, a city of many Tamil-speaking (and other) minorities. This paper takes Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka and the urban heart of Sri Lanka… Continue Reading →

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