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IDPD supports the resolution at UN Human Rights Council to investigate the crackdown on protesters in Iran. IDPD expresses its shock over India abstaining from the resolution at the UNHRC on 25 November and voting ’No’ to a UN General Assembly third committee’s draft resolution that urged Iranian officials to ’cease the use of excessive force against peaceful protesters, including women and children" on 16 November. IDPD further cautions to unite against fundamentalism of all hues in different parts in the world including our own country.

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The Central Trade Unions have already protested by our joint letter dt.25.11.2022 against the letter from Mr. Rajiv Mishra, Sr. Advisor, Dept of Economic Affairs of your Ministry on 24th November 2022 at about 2.13 pm, enclosing a letter dt.10.11.2022, inviting Trade Unions and Labour Organizations for Pre-Budget consultation Meeting on virtual mode on 28th November for 75 minutes between 11:00 am to 12.15 pm. We already had expressed our apprehension that 75 minutes for more than 12 Central Trade Unions to express their views and demands for the 23-24 budget will hardly suffice.

Delhi, 26th November, 2022: On the call of Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), farmers, supported by workers, students, youth, women and ordinary people, held mega foot-marches and rallies today. From information available with the national secretariat of SKM till the time of issuing of this press release, protest gatherings were held at 25 state capitals, more than 300 district headquarters and numerous tehsil headquarters. Altogether, it is estimated that more than 3000 protests were held all over India. More than 5 million people came out on the streets to join the ’Raj Bhawan Chalo’ or ’March to Raj Bhawan’ call of SKM, to register their protest against the anti-farmer BJP-led Union Govt and send Memorandum of Demand of Farmers to the President of India through State Governors, to intervene and stop the anti-farmer activity of the ruling party at the Centre.

Nov 25, 2022: The AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan (ABVA) is releasing the second edition of