The Struggle For Justice In Manipur: Laws, Suppression And Lawmakers – OpEd
The primary colours of any civil democracy are we would agree, social justice, freedom of expression, freedom to protest and participation. India, with a population of 1.3 billion people is…
State Criminality: Under Darkness In The Somali Region Of Ethiopia – OpEd
No matter how tightly truth is tied down, confined and suffocated, she slowly escapes. Seeping out through cracks and openings large and small, illuminating all, revealing the grime and shame,…
Corporate India Versus Indigenous People: Violent In The Name Of Development – OpEd
Consistent with the unjust, decaying economic model of our deficit times, the commodification of everything and everyone proceeds apace in India. The commercialisation of the land is shattering the lives…
The Pain Of The Ogaden Somali People: Hiding From The Truth – OpEd
“Every night, they took all of us girls to [interrogations]. They would separate us and beat us. The second time they took me, they raped me… All three of the…
The Green Green Gold Of Ethiopia – OpEd
Indian multi-nationals in clover Ancestral land that for generations has served as home and livelihood for hundreds of thousands of indigenous people in Ethiopia is being leased out, on 99-year…
Displacement, Intimidation And Abuse: Land Loyalties In Ethiopia – OpEd
With the coming of industrial-size farms in Ethiopia, local people, villagers and pastoralists (deemed irrelevant to the Government’s, economically-driven development plans) are being threatened, and intimidated by the military; forcibly…
India: Growing Inequality And Destructive Development: Misery For The Many, Benefits For The Few – OpEd
Upon a foundation of deep spirituality and philosophical treasures, proclaiming unity, justice and service, New India, horns honking in violation of the good; is racing, no time to spare towards…
Ethiopian Annihilation Of The Ogaden People – OpEd
Besieged, abused, ignored In the harsh Ogaden region of Ethiopia, impoverished ethnic Somali people are being murdered and tortured, raped, persecuted and displaced by government paramilitary forces. Illegal actions carried…
Indian Farmers Trapped And Desperate: Losing The Will To Live – OpEd
India has the largest number of smallholder farmers in the World, 600 million by some estimates. From this army of workers one impoverished desperate man, or indeed woman, with a…
Daughters Of India Violated And Abused: A Woman’s Lot – OpEd
In the ancient land of India, where female deities deeply revered, Kali and Lakshmi, Sarasvati and Parvati, are held high upon the alter of Hinduism, where each day thousands of…
Ethiopian Migrants Abused And Unwelcome In Yemen: Desperately Seeking A Future – OpEd
Year on year the numbers of men women and children leaving Ethiopia in search of work and freedom from repression in one of the Gulf States and beyond is increasing.…
Inequality And Poverty America Style: In Richness And In Health – OpEd
Irrespective of ones circumstances or stage of life, illness is never welcome, in America if your poor it can prove to be a total catastrophe, ending often in personal bankruptcy.…
Perpetual Conflict By Israeli Design – OpEd
And so for a moment or two the slaughter of Palestinian civilians and the destruction in Gaza City has ceased; the oppression, intimidation and terror throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories…
Unity The Path To Change In Ethiopia: The King Is Dead, Long Live The King – OpEd
It is a new-year in Ethiopia, (belated) happy 2005 one and all. With it comes a new prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, deputy PM under Meles Zenawi who died some time…
From Chaos To A New World Order: Words Of Hope At The United Nations – OpEd
Living at this time is to bear witness to a world in acute turmoil Noam Chomskyi describes the current climate, saying, “we are living in an era of irrationality, deception, confusion,…
Syria: State Brutality Human Agony
From peaceful demonstrations in March 2011 inspired by the atmosphere of hope that swept through northern Africa, to bitter, brutal conflict, war, the human disease is rampaging through Syria. Destroying…
America: Domestic Guns And Mass Murder – OpEd
Guns in homes, carried in handbags and school rucksacks, briefcases, car glove compartments and jackets, accessories to kill and injure, to threaten and intimidate. Don’t leave home without one. In…
Freedom Of Speech: Insults Incitement And Islam – OpEd
Across the Muslim World there is rightly outrage and hurt at the latest calculated attack on Islam, in the form of the film trailer Innocence of Muslims. All who hold…
Ethiopia’s Opportunity: A New Day Beckons – OpEd
The death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, announced on 22nd August after his mysterious two-month disappearance, presents a tremendous opportunity to Ethiopia. Let a new day dawn for the people,…
The Meles Mystery: Has Anyone Seen Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Zenawi – OpEd
To many Ethiopians the sudden disappearance of Prime Minister Zenawi is a source of joy and excited expectation, for his die-hard supporters apprehension no doubt and concern for their leader.…
Incarcerated Inside Israel: Palestinians Tortured And Isolated – OpEd
Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation, and denial of access to appropriate health care, such is the Israeli judicial system…
Donor Dollars Aiding Political Repression In Ethiopia – OpEd
An ideological poison is polluting all life within Ethiopia, flowing into every area of civil society. Local governance, urban and rural neighbourhoods, farming, education and the judiciary all are washed…
Migrant Nightmares: Ethiopian Domestic Workers In The Gulf
Employment opportunities in Ethiopia are scarce, particularly for young women with only a basic education from rural areas where 85% of the population live. Many travel to the towns and…
Internet Intrusion: Increased Repression In Ethiopia – OpEd
Freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly are basic human rights, enshrined as such in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is not for a government –…
Sharing: A Growing Trend – OpEd
Humanity shares much; the Earth for one, the universals of joy and suffering, a similarity in nature and condition, some would say a universal soul, or divine essence. Spiritual Politics,…
The Ethiopian Land Giveaway – OpEd
What’s yours is mine what’s mine’s my own. It is a colonial phenomenon, appropriate land for the needs of the colonists and to hell with those living upon the land,…
Unlawful Imprisonment In Ethiopia: Intimidated, Tortured And Detained – OpEd
Arrested, jailed and beaten, tortured and imprisoned, this is the recipe for justice that the Ethiopian government serves up to dissenting voices. Men and women peacefully exercising their democratic right,…
Media Control In Ethiopia
Democracy Denied Democracy sits firmly upon principles of freedom, justice, social inclusion and participation in civil society. Where these qualities of fairness are absent so too is democracy, for the…
Ethiopia: Protect The Children
Where do we look for those responsible for the perpetuation of the underlying cause and continuing practice of child prostitution in Ethiopia? To whom may the children turn and ask…
Israeli Treatment Of Palestinian Minors: Confined Cruelty – OpEd
The innocence of childhood is a precious jewel, to be gently cared for and nurtured, allowing the child, whose future we are building, to develop happily and safely in an…
Stolen Childhoods: Child Prostitution And Trafficking In Ethiopia
Prostitution, perhaps the most distressing form of child abuse, is an epidemic throughout Ethiopia. The innocence of a childhood shattered, causing a deep feeling of shame, poisoning the sense of…
Ethiopia School Daze: Where Not Even Schools Are Safe For Children
There are few corners of childhood in Ethiopia that are safe it seems. “In schools, some take advantage of their positions and force students to engage in sex with them…
Hurt And Abused Children In Ethiopia: Cultural Calamity
Violence towards children is embedded into the social conditioning of Ethiopia, all too often mistakenly termed ‘culture’, and excused thereby, “In our culture there is a saying that if a…
Hurt And Abused Children In Ethiopia: No Defence, No Support, No Voice
“Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God”.1 Almost half the 82 million2 population of Ethiopia are under 14…
Criminal Demolitions In The OPT’s: Homes Destroyed, Land Stolen And Lives Shattered – OpEd
Within the catalogue of criminality that is Israel’s occupation of the West bank and Gaza, the destruction of Palestinian homes must rank as one of the most cynical and heinous.…
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