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  • 14 early signs of Fascism, which hangs in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

    17 May
    Powerful and continuing nationalism
    Disdain for human rights
    Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
    Supremacy of the military
    Rampant sexism
    Controlled mass media
    Obsession with national security
    Religion and government intertwined
    Corporate power protected
    Labor [sic] power suppressed
    Disdain for intellectuals & the arts
    Obsession with crime & punishment
    Rampant cronyism & corruption
    Fraudulent  (...)

  • Bangladesh: Criticizing political leaders on social media lands you in jail - a report by Human Rights Watch

    11 May

    On April 9, 2018, Bangladesh listed its new Digital Security Bill in parliament, which was then sent to a parliamentary standing committee for review. The proposed law is in part intended to replace section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act (ICT Act) 2006, which has been widely criticized for restricting freedom of expression and has resulted in scores of arrests since 2013. However, the current draft of the Bill replicates, and even enhances, existing strictures of the ICT Act. This report documents abuses under section 57 of the ICT Act to warn that any new law should protect rights, not be used to crack down on critics.

  • India: Health impacts of monazite mining - Citizens’ Enquiry Into Kidney Deaths in Ganjam, Odisha

    9 May

    A Citizens’ Enquiry Report into the Epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease
    around IREL Monazite Plant in Ganjam District, Odisha

  • India: Citizens Memorandum to Gurugram Administration Regarding Disruption of Namaaz Prayers

    9 May

    Some of us were witness to the way the namaaz was disrupted and people offering prayers terrorised by a small group of young men throwing the filthiest abuses and raising slogans that were communal in nature on Friday, 4 May at MG Road near Sikanderpur station. These young men were brought to the place in 3-4 cars and once they had disrupted the namaaz, were whisked away by their leaders. It is clear that the action was pre planned and well orchestrated, with an intention to provoke a reaction.

  • India: Bill Gates’s claim that it raises no privacy concerns is misleading

    7 May, by Jean Drèze

    The unaccountable nature of the UIDAI, an authority of immense powers, reinforces and magnifies all the privacy concerns .. Bill Gates’s claim that Adhaar raises no privacy concerns is misleading

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