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Sri Lanka’s top UN Human Rights award winner Sunila Abeysekara died at a private hospital in Colombo on Monday afternoon after a long battle with cancer. A founder of Sri Lanka’s feminist movement, Ms. Abeysekara was a leading socialist activist for minority rights, women’s, workers and peasants rights. Recently she was prominent on Lankan human rights issues at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. She was also a noted Sinhala folk and opera singer. Ms. Abeysekera, daughter of the late (…)

Rajnath denies rift in BJP
No one is unhappy in the BJP There are no differences of opinionWe are all one happy familyThere is nothing unusual about Robert’s land acquisitionsNarendraji has no ambitions to be PMThe RSS is a cultural organization with no political interestThe BJP chooses its own president, PM candidate etc.The RSS loves Muslims and ChristiansV.D. Savarkar had nothing to do with the murder of one Mohandas GandhiThere is no financial crisis in PunjabPunjab leaders urgently (…)

Video of a Democracy Now programme on the 40th anniversary of the Chilean coup with Spanish lawyer Juan Garcés, a former personal adviser to ousted Chilean President Salvador Allende, and Peter Kornbluh, author of "The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability."

In Bangladesh, it is the working class of the cities that are paying the largest price. They are the full spectrum of collateral damage.

Giving money to vulnerable women often only puts them at greater risk of violence. To empower, first work on context and then the individual