Eroding credibility of the higher judiciary
Be you ever so high, the law is above you! This is an established judicial principle across the world, which has also been upheld by the Indian judiciary. The credibility…
Pradeep Baisakh
Civil Society Confronts Global Leaders at UN ‘Summit of the Future’ Demanding Radical Changes to the International Financial Architecture
New York, 21 September 2024: As world leaders meet at the UN Summit of the Future on 22-23 September to forge a new international consensus, civil society groups and people’s leaders…
People asserted, “We are the Boss!”
The myth that you can continue ruling the country by dividing people on religious ground, intimidating and jailing the opposition leaders, capturing all the public institution and centralizing power, forcing…
Real Action, Not Words Alone, Needed to Achieve UN Agenda 2030: Civil Society
As politicians and policymakers make speeches at the United Nations during a high-level summit next week to assess the lack of progress on the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable…
Asia hardest hit by new COVID cases, deaths as WHO declares global health emergency ‘over’
Asia currently accounts for more than half of the world’s new and confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths, with India, Indonesia and the Philippines being among the hardest-hit. Combined, WHO regions…
Never Again: Three years into pandemic, 190+ world leaders call to end vaccine inequality
Ban Ki-Moon, Helen Clark, Joyce Banda, Joseph Stiglitz, Winnie Byanyima join scores of leaders in open letter three years into the COVID-19 pandemic. Inequity of vaccine rollout led to one…
G20 urged to “face up” to global Covid-19 challenges, as rich countries still monopolise vaccine supply
Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia: Wednesday 16/11 : Rich countries have delivered seven times more doses of COVID-19 vaccine per head than low-income countries[1], civil society groups have warned, as the G20…
Global People’s Assembly at the UN General Assembly: Over 1000 civil society groups propose bold steps to transform the world
New York, 23 September 2022 - Seven years after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals - almost halfway to the 2030 deadline - the visionary promise of social justice…
End Violence, Exclusion and Discrimination Against Women: Global Civil Society Campaign
On the International Women’s Day today Global Call To Action Against Poverty (GCAP), a global civil society campaign working in 58 countries, in a statement expresses deep concern over the…
Faces of Inequality: Stories of the poor and underprivileged from India’s grassroots
Amid the talks of a five trillion dollar Indian economy, there is still an India where people struggle to arrange two square meals a day. Many strive hard for basic…
Millions of Asians urgently need developed countries to stop blocking their access to vaccines
Across Asia, a surge in coronavirus cases is prompting fresh restrictions and pushing people further into poverty. While fast-moving vaccination drives are allowing developed economies to bounce back, most Asian…
Better stay outdated
If you do a google search, “Ramp Show” you get about 2660 million links. Ramp shows are quite popular across cities in the world and have well engulfed the minds…
Civil Society in Odisha rises to the occasion to help the destitute during the lockdown
The crisis emerging out of the threat from Coronavirus is herculean. Several civil society actors in Odisha have risen to the occasion in different ways to intervene on behalf of…
Migrant Workers’ Woes: An Open Letter to the Prime Minister
Migrant Workers’ woes: Please address the nation to assuage their fear, Dear Prime Minister To Shri Narendra Modi Honourabe Prime Minister of India Respected Modi Jee, You have received accolades…
People’s Assembly held in New York demands climate justice and ending inequality
300 people from 80 countries and 203 civil society organisations participated in the People's Assembly 2019 on 24-25 September in the UN Church Center in New York. There were many representatives from…
Triumph of People Power
On 7th September, thousands of people gathered at the Raj Mahal square in Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Odisha and protested against the implementation of the newly amended Motor Vehicle…
Sustainable Development is meaningless for these people in an Indian village
The United Nations High Level Political Forum (HLPF) commences from 9th July and will continue till 18th July in the UN headquarters in New York, which will, among other discussions,…
Negligence of the elderly in an exploitative economic system
The study done by HelpAge India titled, “Elder Abuse in India: Role of family in care giving – challenges and responses” brings about some glaring facts about the state of…
Recipe for sustainable development in Odisha
“Social exclusion, malnutrition and degradation in quality education are the major challenges and break the speed of development process. Grassroots level development needs inclusion of all the stakeholders like civil…
Who killed Zia?
On August 17, 1988, the then President of Pakistan General Zi-Ul Haq died in an air crash. It was termed as an accident then. But was it really an accident?…
Two Ladies, Who Made The Mission Possible!
A 6-14 year old minor girl could be an‘object’used for dispute settlement between two parties. No matter how absurd it may sound, this practice, known as “Swara” (http://bit.ly/1PWTLKm), is prevalent…
BRICS And Civil Society
India is going to host the 8th BRICS Summit in Goa on October 15-16, 2016 as part of India’s chairmanship of BRICS this year. BRICS is the acronyms of its…
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