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Provide Essential Medical Supplies; Urge India to Free Rights Defenders, Address Abuses
(Brussels, May 3, 2021) – European leaders at the May 8, 2021 summit
with their Indian counterparts should prioritize the deteriorating human rights situation in India, including the right to health, eight organizations said today.
With a devastating Covid-19 crisis affecting the country, Europe should focus on providing support to help India deal with the acute shortage of medical supplies
and access to vaccines. At the same time, European leaders should press the Indian government to reverse its abusive and discriminatory policies and immediately release all human rights defenders and other critics who have been jailed for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.
Fear and Loathing in Bangladesh
Fear and Loathing in Bangladesh
Pakistan was not wrong on the Molla execution.
[dropcap]C[/dropcap]haudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Pakistan’s interior minister, controversially denounced Bangladesh’s execution of 65-year-old Abdul Quader Molla, a leader of that country’s Jamaat-e-Islami party. From someone whose government wants to see 70-year-old Pervez Musharraf, this country’s former president and Army chief, hanged, this lecture on reconciliation was rich.
Given that Molla was convicted for crimes allegedly committed during the 1971 civil war that saw East Pakistan become Bangladesh, Khan, and the National Assembly, should have kept their own counsel. Instead, they reified suspicions within Bangladesh that Pakistan is continuing to meddle in the affairs of its former half. Typically, not only did Pakistan’s self-flagellating and self-deemed liberals excoriate Khan and the alleged past and present excesses of the Pakistan Army, they actually
Centre, States failed to prepare for predictable second wave, says International Commission of Jurists
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Follow judicial orders regarding medical care and vaccines, it says
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A health department worker takes the throat swab of a person for coronavirus test in Puducherry on April 29, 2021.
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Follow judicial orders regarding medical care and vaccines, it says
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) on Thursday called on the Centre and the State governments to comply with court orders regarding oxygen supply, hospital beds and medicines for COVID-19, adding that the governments had failed to prepare for the second wave of the pandemic.