Why India s COVID-19 Catastrophe Is Indeed a Crime Against Humanity
The impact that this second wave of the COVID virus has had, is having and will continue to have on India will, in many ways, mirror the impact of any event of mass death that would fit the legal definition of a crime against humanity.
Family member wearing PPE performs last rites of a COVID-19 victim at Nigambodh Ghat crematorium, in New Delhi, Friday, April 23, 2021. Photo: PTI
The Wire on April 29, 2021, Arundhati Roy used the term âcrime against humanityâ to describe immeasurable grief and human suffering India is seeing through the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Medolife Rx Announces Changes in Management, Puts New Executive Leadership in Place
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Burbank, CA - ( NewMediaWire ) - May 11, 2021 - Medolife Rx, Inc. (“Medolife”), a global integrated bioceutical company with R&D, manufacturing, and consumer product distribution, which is a majority owned subsidiary of Quanta, Inc. (OTC PINK: QNTA), announced today its President Philip Sands will be stepping down from the position, completing the planned final step in the merger with Quanta. Stepping into his place, Medolife CEO Dr. Arthur Mikaelian will act as the interim President and Chairman of the Board, while continuing in his role as CEO.
The International Criminal Court has sentenced former Ugandan child soldier turned Lord’s Resistance Army Commander Dominic Ongwen to 25 years behind bars.
We spoke with leading international justice lawyer and award winning author Philippe Sands QC about why the ICC takes so long to finalise cases, and focuses far more on African war criminals than those of other nations.
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An aerial view of the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
In recent years, we’ve documented the BBC’s amplification of anti-Israel campaigns involving or run by the controversial political NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) including the FIFA campaign, the Airbnb campaign, and the UN BDS database campaign.
Readers may also recall the BBC’s very generous, yet one-sided, coverage of the 2018/19 story of Israel’s non-renewal of the work visa for HRW employee Omar Shakir. due to his BDS-supporting activities.
Time and time again, we have documented that although HRW is one of the political NGOs most quoted and promoted in BBC content relating to Israel the BBC has repeatedly failed to meet its own editorial guidelines on impartiality by neglecting to inform audiences of Human Rights Watch’s “affiliations, funding and particular viewpoints.”