Bulletin

Articles

• Hypocrisy, Deceit, And Divisiveness: Hallmarks of The Regime Ruling India Today
  6 August, by Vinod Mubayi

  It is a measure of the insanity of our time that Narendra D. Modi is hailed as a vishwaguru (world-guru) and embraced unconditionally and unabashedly by the leaders of the United States and France at a time when the state of Manipur is on the verge of civil war, minorities, in particular Muslims but to an increasing extent Christians as well, are randomly assaulted and butchered by uniformed policemen, no less, spouting Hindutva slogans exalting Modi and his henchman Yogi, all while Modi (...)

• Human Rights Violations in Jerusalem
  24 June, by Ahmad Jaradat

  Introduction
  Violations of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories by the Israeli occupation authorities have become an almost daily prominent feature. These violations affect all aspects of life of the Palestinian people and extends to all Palestinian cities, villages, camps, and communities. Thus, not a day goes by without witnessing various forms of serious violations that affect all individuals and groups in the form of collective punishment.
  There are multiple violations (...)

• A Decolonial Foreign Policy for Canada
  1 August, by Jooneed Khan

  AS Canada kicked out Brian Mulroney’s Tories and brought back the Liberals under Jean Chrétien in November 1993, the new Foreign Minister, André Ouellet, assembled a national brainstorming event on Canadian Foreign Policy early 1994 in Ottawa.
  With more than 15 years (then) as international affairs reporter and analyst at the Montreal daily ‘La Presse’, I was invited to participate. I accepted. Canada had plucked me out of Mauritius in 1964 with a Commonwealth scholarship for university (...)

• ’Betting on India is a Shortsighted Strategy for France’
  9 June, by Christophe Jaffrelot

  The French government has just announced that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the guest of honor at the Bastille Day Parade. This comes at a time when India is moving towards a form of government that can be described as electoral autocracy. While Indians are called to vote at regular intervals, the competition between the parties involved in the legislative process is no longer fair.
  Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), or People’s Party of India, not only receives unprecedented (...)

• Migration, a Revolution in the Making
  9 June, by Gustave Massiah

  We are experiencing a turning point in the long history of migration. The history of migration merges with the history of mankind; it is part of the long, shaping history of the human race. This history began in Africa with the migrations of Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens. Migrants are not intruders; they are an integral part of the history of every society. Migration has shaped the imagination of our world: nomadism, settling with the mastery of agriculture, exile, colonization, diasporas, (...)