Jayapura — The Indonesian government still has the outstanding issues of resolving cases of human rights (HAM) including in the land of Papua. The practice of impunity or legal immunity for the perpetrators has made finding a solution drag on further.
Institute for Human Rights Studies and Advocacy (Elsham) Papua Director Matheus Adadikam said that armed conflicts and human rights violations continue to occur today in the land of Papua. The government's promise to resolve a series of (…)

Article introductif au dossier « Partis pris », publié dans Adresses -internationalisme et démocr@tie n°11
« La concurrence des divers États entre eux les oblige […] à prendre de plus en plus au sérieux le service militaire obligatoire et, en fin de compte, à familiariser le peuple tout entier avec le maniement des armes donc à le rendre capable de faire à un moment donné triompher sa volonté. […] Et ce moment vient dès que la masse du peuple […] a une volonté. À ce point, l'armée (…)

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), India's rural employment lifeline, faces a catastrophic crisis with over 9 crore (90m) workers wrongfully deleted from its registers in the past three years. Despite compelling evidence of systemic failures, the Union Government continues to shift responsibility to state authorities, claiming “no role” in these deletions. This article exposes how the Centre's digitisation policies, particularly the Aadhaar-Based Payment (…)

The about-face by Trump on the evening of 9^th April regarding tariffs cannot be analysed in terms of “transactional strategy” and other gobbledygook for immature business school students. Regardless of whether Donald is conscious of his actions or not, which is not the most important aspect of the situation, it is a retreat that will weaken him whilst resolving nothing.
The most important financial development that gained major significance during Wednesday was not related to the stock (…)

The Indonesian Women's Alliance (API), comprising more than 30 organisations including women's groups, workers, people with disabilities, students, LGBTIQ+, journalists, human rights defenders and other pro-democracy groups, staged a Protest Action in response and challenge to the Prabowo-Gibran government's failure to protect women. From cuts to social, health and education budgets, exploitation of natural resources, weakening of corruption prosecution to increasing repression of freedom of (…)