Indian Activists and Students Demand Equality and Justice for Dalits (former untouchables) after the Suicide of Dalit Ph. D. Student Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad India

Student protests have erupted throughout India in response to the suicide of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit (formerly called untouchable) student at the University of Hyderabad (India) and the...
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New Worker Protection Standards “A Step in the Right Direction” for U.S. Farmworker Advocates

2015 marked a successful year for farmworker advocates in their struggle against pesticide use and exposure. In September, activists finally succeeded in pressuring the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
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Climate Change

India is Covering Up its Public Health Crisis with Claims to the Historical Responsibility of Developed Countries

The COP21 negotiations establishing an international framework agreement to mitigate climate change recently closed in Paris, and heads of state around the globe are heralding the finished agreement. ...
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