[GreenYouth] UN Bans Nuclear Weapons Voting 122 to 1, with 1 Abstention, and Boycott of All the Nine States Possessing Nuclear Weapons along with Their Allies! That's A Huge Moral Victory for the Caus

2017-07-07 Thread Sukla Sen
[The Article 4.2, of the finally adopted version (available at < http://www.undocs.org/en/a/conf.229/2017/L.3/Rev.1>) provides: "***(E)ach State Party that owns, possesses or controls nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices shall immediately remove them from operational status, and

[GreenYouth] Fwd: Amnesty International India campaign #ForIndigenousRights

2017-07-07 Thread Dr.B. Karthik Navayan
#ForIndigenousRights 15 June 2017, 03:52PM [image: #ForIndigenousRights] *THE CAMPAIGN* On 14 June, over 80 Adivasis from four villages in Raigarh district came together at the district’s Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Welfare (Special) Police Station to lodge complaints against people

[GreenYouth] Fishers fume at GST rates

2017-07-07 Thread T Peter
*Fishers fume at GST rates* T. Nandakumar http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp- kerala/fishers-fume-at-gst-rates/article19238286.ece *They dread further increase in operational costs* The fisheries sector is bracing

[GreenYouth] 'G20 joint statement didn’t name Pak (terrorist) outfits' (despite Indian PM's public urging on the previous day): Another significant instance of failure of Modi regime's conduct of fore

2017-07-07 Thread Sukla Sen
[<> (Excerpted from the news report posted below.) Compare this with: <> (Source: 'PM Modi puts forth 11-point action agenda for counter-terrorism at G20' at < http://www.aninews.in/newsdetail-NA/MzIzNDU5/pm-modi-puts-forth-11-point-action-agenda-for-counter-terrorism-at-g20.html >.)]

[GreenYouth] On Still Ongoing Communal Violence in Baduria-Basirhat in West Bengal

2017-07-07 Thread Sukla Sen
I/IV. Shuddhabrata Sengupta [FB Post] 18 hrs · Whosoever led and participated in the attack that killed a man called Kartik Ghosh in Taitra-Ghoshpara village near Basirhat in North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal yesterday did the BJP and the Sangh Parivar's sinister agenda to cause further

[GreenYouth] WhatsApp with your jail officials, Mr (Maharashtra) CM? Calling the accused her sisters, (The DIG, prisons, Swati) Sathe (the inquiry officer investigating custodial torture and murder of

2017-07-07 Thread Sukla Sen
[The inquiry into the recent custodial death of Byculla jail inmate Manjula Shetye has taken the shape of a sham with a top prisons official, who is heading the probe into the incident, urging her colleagues on a WhatsApp group to pool money to pay for the bail of the six jail officials arrested

[GreenYouth] Draft treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons: The revised version as on July 6 2017

2017-07-07 Thread Sukla Sen
The Article 4.2, of this version provides: "***(E)ach State Party that owns, possesses or controls nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices shall immediately remove them from operational status, and destroy them as soon as possible but not later than a deadline to be determined by the