In the fourth medal tally for Team India at the ongoing Common Wealth Games 2022 at Birmingham, United Kingdom, Manipur's Bindyarani Devi Sorokhaibam clinched silver medal in the weightlifting 55 kg category. She lifted a total of 202 kgs after successfully lifting 116 kg in her third attempt of...
In another feat for Manipur’s Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, the 27-year-old Indian weightlifter in her show of remarkable grit and tenacity, successfully lifted 88 kg in her second attempt of snatch to create a new Common Wealth Games 2022 record in Women's 49 Kg weight category, wining India's first gold...
North East India Festival begins at Bangkok with significant push on NE Tourism
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Bangkok: The second edition of the much-anticipated ‘North East Festival’ commenced from Friday at Central world in Bangkok, with a presence of 150 Thai tour operators interacting with North East India’s tourism stakeholders.
The meet kick-started with a overwhelming presence of top tour operators of Thailand, who showed immense interest...
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Geneva: Journalists continue to be the victim of violence in Bangladesh as the police recovered a partially decomposed body of Hashibur Rahaman Rubel on 7 July 2022. The young scribe went missing five days back and his body was found under a bridge on Garai river in...
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Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the globalmedia safety and rights body, expresses concern over the police inaction to nab the killers of Dhaka-based television journalist Abdul Bari, who was found dead on the bank of Hatirjheel lake in Gulshan area of the capital city on 8 June. Journalist Bari...
Failure to recognise indigenous rights will derail achievement of global climate pledges: case studies from Asia: AIPP
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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...
GNF speak up at UN forum on AFSPA, Indo-Naga political issue, Oting killings & human rights protections
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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...
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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...