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Editors’ appeal

Censorship>> Press • Armenia

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UNITED NATIONS

IN FOCUS

Foreigners' nightmare

War of words

Australia vetoes UN declaration granting indigenous people the right to "self-determination"

A mixed blessing

Everyone has the right to live in a pollution-free environment says the United Nations

Corporate US

US double standards on human rights smacks of global hypocrisy

Dry truths

UK plays spoilsport

An amendment to deny

Commotion, just that

No man's land

Swelling gripe

In Pakistan's troubled Balochistan province

It's a bad, bad world

So let's not pretend being nice to all

ONLINE VIGIL

Neglected people

Freedom pitch

Protest>> Letter • China

Blogging out executions

Capital punishment>> Blogs • Iran

Local bodies are key to decentralised biodiversity governance

It is necessary to redesign interactions between those close to biodiversity, protecting and nurturing biodiversity and those benefiting from them

Timeline of an unwarranted act: How India has legislated on forests

Does independent India's first amendment to the Indian Forest Act reflect the changes in forest policy?

Is NOTA the answer to TINA?

The ‘None of the Above’ provision on electoral voting machines is turning out to be a decentralised protest

Govt's agenda for developing pedestrian-friendly cities does not translate into action

Smart City Mission has allocated only 8 per cent of the Rs. 20,500-crore budget for creating 'walkable localities’

Effect of Brexit on unitary patents

The UK’s divorce from Europe will reduce IP protection and may result in an increase in the cost of protection of IP rights on the continent