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select media reports on the Indian Feminist Kamla Bhasin who passed away on Sept 25, 2021; tributes by Rukmini Rao, women of SEWA Cooperative Federation, Urvashi Butalia, Jawed Naqvi and some video recordings with Kamla

The Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP), India expresses its deep concern at the U.S. agreement to sell nuclear submarines and Tomahawk missiles to Australia and also at the ongoing quadrilateral security dialogue of which India is a part.

Distinguished, stylish, elegant, courageous, ever-supportive of young people across generations, Rati Bartholomew passed away this morning at the age of 95. Rati taught at Indraprastha College, Delhi University, but her reputation as a theatre person went beyond a single institution; in fact her name was almost synonymous with campus theatre, so intimately connected was she with student theatre work and student Drama Societies.

Since August 15 the AIHRC continues in office but has been unable to fulfil its duties to the Afghan people. All AIHRC buildings have been occupied by Taliban forces, who have also made appointments and used AIHRC assets such as cars and computers.
Furthermore, since the Taliban have consistently shown disregard for human rights, including attacks on human rights defenders and flagrant violations of international human rights standards, the leadership of the AIHRC has little confidence in a Taliban government to respect the mandate and independence of the AIHRC. Given the restrictions by the Taliban on women

On behalf of 300 organizations from 69 countries, representing civil society, peoples movements, Indigenous Peoples organizations, scientists, conservationists, we call upon Alok Sharma, the 2021 President of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP-26), and all parties to COP-26, to reject attempts by the hydropower industry to secure scarce climate funds to finance a new wave of hydropower projects. Funding hydroelectric power construction would not only fail to prevent catastrophic climate change, it would also worsen the climate crisis by exploding methane emissions and diverting scarce climate funds away from meaningful energy and water solutions in a world that is already grappling with severe impacts of climate change.