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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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Posted on: 27 August, 2008

Letter to the Editor.

There is some misunderstanding in the media about the Committee established to discuss marriage and family issues, chaired by Attorney-General, Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail. It is not a joint committee of civil and syariah lawyers. It comprises in... more 

Posted on: 20 August, 2008

Letter to the Editor

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Posted on: 11 August, 2008

 

A lot of people are disillusioned with what is... more 

Posted on: 09 August, 2008

Three years ago the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) had charged the British government then under Prime Minster, Tony Blair, and the United States government of George Bush, with planning, preparing, and waging the supreme crime of a war of aggression in contravention of the United Nations Charter and the Nuremberg Principles. ... more 

Posted on: 05 August, 2008

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ( ICC) has alleged that the President of the Republic of the Sudan, Omar Al Bashir, has committed the crime of genocide (Article 6(a) ) of the Rome Statute ( the statute under which the ICC was established) ; crimes against humanity ( Article 7(1) ) of the Statute ;  and war crimes ( Article 8(2)(e)(i) )  under the same law,  in the territ... more 

Posted on: 24 July, 2008

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150 Clergy Appeal to Obama    
   

News Release   

August 21.  2008

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by/ source- Rabbi Michael Lerner

Stop Ruthless State and Corporate Violence on the People of Orissa!    
   

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by/ source- KN Pandit, convenor, Steering Committee

A Different Jammu that I Know    
   


The agitation over the Amarnath shrine in Kashmir has now threatened
to snowball into a full-fledged communal confl... more 

by/ source- Yoginder Sikand

An appeal to defuse the crisis in Jammu and Kashmir    
   

 MEDIA RELEASE

The Hon'ble Prime Minister of India
Prime Minister's Office
South Block, Raisina Hills
New Delhi

Sub: An appeal to defuse the crisis in Jammu and Kashmir

Dear Dr Manmohan Singh,

The death of 5 people in firing in Baramulla is very disturbin... more 

by/ source-

Strife-Torn Kishtwar: Dreams of Harmony Once Dreamt    
   
 
'The situation in Kishtwar is now really desperate. Worse, in some ways, than in the 1990s, when the town had become a virtual army camp. Earlier, it was militants versus the armed forces. Now it is threatening to take... more 
by/ source- Yoginder Sikand

US Drops Winning Hearts, Minds Drive    
   

CAIRO... more 

by/ source- IslamOnline & others

BIL'IN GRASSROOTS NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE MOVEMENT --- A LIGHT OF HOPE WHICH DESERVES INTERNATIONAL S    
   

It is difficult to sustain a grassroots non-violent movement.   The sceptics argue nonviolence doesn't work, the militants argue only violence... more 

by/ source- Mairead Maguire

A Short Message to the UC Regents: Get Out of the Nuclear Weapons Business     
   

Designing and developing weapons of mass annihilation should not be business as usual, especially for a great university.  And yet, for the UC, it is business as usual.  Since the beginning of the Nuclear Age, the UC has been in the business of providing management and oversi... more 

by/ source- David Kreiger

"If I Forget Thee, Umm Touba..."    
   

IN ONE of the most beautiful songs in the Bible, the poet vows: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, / Let my right hand forget her cunning. / If I do not remember thee, / Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; / If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy!" (Psalms 137:5)

For some rea... more 

by/ source- Uri Avnery

Make the Hokkaido Summit the Last Summit of the G8!    
   

(Declaration of Participants in the International Solidarity Days of the G8 Action Network, July 8, 2008)... more 

by/ source-

The G8 Communique on Climate: Regression, not a Forward Movement    
   

(Statement of organizations affiliated with the G8 Action Network, ... more 

by/ source-

New Detentions Link Generals To Ergenekon Network    
   

The detention of four retired high-ranking generals yesterday along with dozens of others has extended an investigation into an illegal organization to include two failed coup attempts allegedly devised by currently retired force commanders against the ... more 

by/ source- Editor, Zaman

Five Hundred Lawmakers Call For World Parliament    
   

Berlin. Over 500 members of parliament from o... more 

by/ source- UNPA Campaign

Ingrid Betancourt Released    
   

Colombia... more 

by/ source- Justin Podur, Z Net

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