A NEW STUDY reveals that Nationally Determined Contributions, a cornerstone of the international framework aimed at addressing climate change, are likely to fail unless indigenous peoples’ rights to their land, forests, waters and territorial management are included.
As representatives of governments meet for the Bonn Climate Change Conference over the...
New York: The following is the oral presentation and the written statement submitted by the Global Naga Forum (GNF) at the 21st session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) at the United Nations Headquarters, New York from April 25-May 5, 2022 represented by GNF general...
The Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) said Saturday that 3,000 foreign journalists are working in Ukraine but six have been killed, dozens wounded and two kidnapped by Russia since Feb 24.
The journalists were killed under various circumstances from shrapnel after a rocket attack to a bullet wound, Anadolu Agency...
Geneva: Expressing shock over the murder of a record number of 12 journalists in the first month of 2022, the global media safety and rights body Press Emblem Campaign demands justice and adequatecompensation to the bereaved families.PEC laments that another journalist has been cowardly assassinated in Mexico. The slain...
Nava J Thakuria
Geneva: Appreciating the release of three digital media workers in Myanmar recently, the global media safety & rights body Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) maintains its demand to the Burmese junta for unconditional release of all detained journalists in the south-east Asian country. The military rulers of Myanmar...
Geneva: As the military rulers of Myanmar (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh) continue to arrest scribes in the south-east Asian country, the global media safety & rights body Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) condemns the Burmese junta (also known as Tatmadaw) and demands the unconditional release of all 45...
Geneva (PEC): Nearly 2000 journalists died of Covid-19 in 94 countries since March 2020. Last year, in 2021, at least 1400 media workers succumbed to the virus, that is to say 116 par month or some 4 per day on average, announced Friday in Geneva the Press Emblem Campaign...
Nava J Thakuria
Geneva/Guwahati: Afghanistan and Mexico are the most dangerous countries for media work this year, the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) said in its annual report in Geneva on Thursday in view of Human Rights Day. Since 1 January, 76 media workers have been killed in 28 countries around...
Nava J Thakuria
Geneva: As the year approaches its end, Myanmar continues to be an unsafe country for journalists in particular and pro-democracy activists in general. Soon after the military coup on 1 February last, the south-east Asian nation witnessed the detention of over 120 media workers among whom at...
In the recently concluded Military Literature Festival 2020, India-China relations managed to be the epicentre of the discussions on India’s security architecture.
The 2020 Festival arrived in the backdrop of incidents like Galwan and Ladakh standoffs, with the memories of 2017 Doklam standoff still ripe. The pattern of disturbances, neither...