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Just as the US administration has demanded from the British Petroleum that it set up an escrow fund of US$10b for compensation pending legal settlements arising out of the oil spill, we demand from you to ask the erstwhile Union Carbide, Dow chemicals and the judicial system of US to reverse the out-of-court Bhopal settlement, and deposit amounts commensurate with the deaths of over 15,000 persons and half a million injuries in Bhopal, and process the extradition of guilty people immediately.

After last months crackdown on Anti-POSCO demonstrators in Orissa, some groups in South Korea took the initiative of organizing a picket infront of POSCO Headquarter in Seoul, South Korea.

Later in the day a Joint Press Statement was also released and circulated. The press statement was prepared under the aegis of Korean House for International Solidarity (KHIS), Gong-Gam (Public Interest Lawyers’ Group), Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU). The was also endorsed by All Together (Students’ Organization), Citizens’ Forum for Corporate Social Responsibility, Centre for Corporate Social Responsibilty, People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy along with individual activists.

The 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG) will be held in New Delhi, India, from 3-14 October 2010. Given the many unanswered questions that have marked the CWG process, HLRN undertook a study on various dimensions of the Games. The HLRN study questions the rationale for spending thousands of crores of rupees on a one-time sporting event, which instead of delivering any benefits to the masses is resulting in multiple violations of human rights, especially of the most marginalised sections of society.

The government needs to reconsider the role the state has played in the persecution of minorities

While the Indian Government considers deploying the army and air force to quell the rebellion in the countryside, strange things are happening in the cities.