So Hindutva bigots have called for a boycott of @TanishqJewelry for highlighting Hindu-Muslim unity through this beautiful ad. If Hindu-Muslim “ekatvam” irks them so much, why don’t they boycott the longest surviving symbol of Hindu-Muslim unity in the world -- India?
In the Uighur homeland of China's Xinjiang region, journalists are followed wherever they go and prevented from speaking with locals. So @VICENews posed as tourists and snuck in wearing hidden cameras. Twice.
#FYC: Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast, #VICENewsTonight
Even elephants have a ‘witching hour’! Mornings can be full of excitement among our Nursery herd. Sometimes, among all the charging, bush-bashing trumpeting and rumbling, all we can see is shaking bushes and ears.
Fundamentalist #Christians have long been one of the most important threats to #UncontactedTribes.
They really are the *last* people who should be anywhere near #TribalPeoples.
@Survival has played a vital role in stopping them in various countries, but they keep coming back.
How do you keep those in authority accountable when they are given so much power and status? Consequently this results in brutality, bribery and corruption... 2/2 #CQWorldWide#TamilNadu#Corruption https://t.co/QigPVE0kvW
India is a classic high power distance country where might prevails over right and where scandals involving power holders are usually covered up. It is a high power distance country where hierarchy and caste have given birth to inequality and oppression. 1/2
Tuticorin custodial death: Father-son duo sexually tortured by police, says Eye-witnesses. The father-son duo suffered rectal bleeding, forcing them to change their dress atleast seven times in five hours.
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“Good people should have a fighting chance to defend themselves. And if they want our assistance in that process, we're here for them.“ https://t.co/XbaJAw8jEi
Completely illegal: Under the Wildlife Act, no power is given to the State Board for Wildlife to denotify any Sanctuary. Even National Board for Wildlife has no power to denotify even an inch of a protected area. Buffer and Core is meant to confuse the issue .