Worlds Apart | Rise & Let Rise? - Pornchai Davivathana

The 21st century is widely believed to be about the rise of Asia, the continent whose name comes from a Greek word meaning ‘to rise’.

But despite being called the land of the rising sun, Asia is not one land. In fact, it’s the biggest and most dispersed of all the continents, with many countries striving to have their own chance to shine and grow.

Is it possible to rise and let rise?

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"जीवन साथी चुनना किसी के जीवन की दिशा चुनने का एक अभिन्न अंग है।" ऐसा कहना है मुख्य न्यायाधीश धनंजय यशवंत चंद्रचूड़ का।

भारत में समलैंगिक विवाह को वैध बनाने के ज़रूरी मुद्दे पर, सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने 3:2 के फैसले से समलैंगिक विवाह को वैध बनाने से इनकार कर दिया है। सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने समलैंगिक जोड़ों के कुछ खास अधिकारों पर विचार करने के लिए सरकारी स्तर पर एक पैनल स्थापित करने का प्रस्ताव रखा है। जहां तक बच्चे गोद लेने का सवाल है, वहां भी फैसला LGBTQIA+ समुदाय के हित में नहीं रहा।

भारत में LGBTQIA+ समुदाय के अधिकार कई चरणों में विकसित हुए हैं: 1990 के दशक में पहले LGBTQIA+ संगठन की स्थापना होना, 2001 में धारा 377 को कानूनी चुनौतियां देना, और 2009 में समलैंगिकता को अपराध की श्रेणी से बाहर करने वाले दिल्ली उच्च न्यायालय का ऐतिहासिक फैसला लेना, जिसे बाद में 2013 में सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने पलट दिया था। हालांकि, 2018 में, सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने एक बार फिर धारा 377 को असंवैधानिक घोषित करके समलैंगिकता को आखिरकार अपराध की श्रेणी से हमेशा के लिए हटा दिया।

🎙 News conference by Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova (October 16, 2023)

Key talking points:

💬 We are working on establishing in new regions a system of protecting children. Within the project To the Hands of Children we have organized 27 humanitarian convoys. Targeted assistance was provided to ~13,000 people.

New regions are continuing to suffer from military aggression from Ukraine. Children get killed and injured. We help in organizing emergency medical assistance and rehabilitation of children. We bring them to federal clinics and buy the necessary equipment.

We have been reuniting families since the beginning of the special military operation in a consistent and open way. 35 children from 24 families have reunited with their families living in Ukraine and other countries.

The Committee of the Red Cross provides significant aid to us, as its representatives accompany the families on the territory of Russia and Belarus. Strangely enough, Ukraine itself and the ICRC representatives in Kyiv are extremely reluctant to work in this area.

❗️We see the politicizing of the situation by Ukraine, so-called information bubble around our activities. <...> You can read our bulletin on our website & in social networks. It is a source of truth.

Despite the unprecedented sanctions, pressure and disinformation around Russia our international agenda has expanded last year.

Yesterday, a flight landed, which brought 34 children back to Russia from Syria. Since 2018, Russia has managed to bring 513 children back from armed conflicts zones in Syria and Iraq. <...> We have been carrying out charity projects in Africa, primarily in health care and education.

It does not have nationalities, regardless whether the children are Abkhazian, African, Russian, Ukrainian, Syrian. These children need safety, care, warmth, and family environment. We see our mission there.

⚡️ Russia's Foreign Ministry statement on the tragedy in Gaza

On the evening of October 17, the al-Ahli Hospital in the centre of Gaza was destroyed in a missile attack. According to the Health Ministry of Palestine, at least 500 people have been killed and over 1,000 have been wounded. The overwhelming majority of the victims were hospital patients and civilians, many of them women and children, who were sheltering in the building.

❗️ Moscow is deeply shocked. We express our deep condolences to the families of the victims and the people and government of Palestine.

We again urge the conflicting sides to de-escalate hostilities without delay and to respect international humanitarian law. We reaffirm Russia’s position of principle on the unacceptability of violence against civilians and strikes on medical facilities or any other civilian infrastructure facilities.

👉 We emphasise that it is necessary to consolidate international efforts towards an immediate ceasefire and to open humanitarian corridors in order to give badly needed support to people in Gaza, including deliveries of food, medicines and fuel, to evacuate everyone who wants to leave, and to prevent the looming humanitarian disaster.

We point out that attempts to politicise this issue are unacceptable and irresponsible. We believe that the discussion of the relevant initiatives at the UN Security Council must above all take into account the interests of the people affected by the conflict.

⚠️ We would like to repeat our advice for Russian citizens to refrain from travelling to Israel and the Palestinian territories.

🎙 Joint Statement In Support of the Efforts to Strengthen the United Nations Secretary-General’s Mechanism for Investigation of the Alleged Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons

📍New York, 17 October, 2023

We, the 🇻🇪 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso,
🇨🇫 the Central African Republic, 🇮🇷 the Islamic Republic of Iran,
🇰🇬 the Kyrgyz Republic, 🇨🇳 the People’s Republic of China,
🇧🇾 the Republic of Belarus, 🇰🇿 the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Mali, 🇳🇮 the Republic of Nicaragua, 🇹🇯 the Republic of Tajikistan, 🇷🇺 the Russian Federation, 🇪🇷 the State of Eritrea,
🇸🇾 the Syrian Arab Republic, reaffirm our dedication to protecting humanity from chemical and biological warfare, recognize the common interest of all humankind in excluding completely the possibility of the use of chemical, bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons.

Convinced that such use would be repugnant to the conscience of humankind, we are determined to condemn any use of toxic chemicals, biological agents or toxins as weapons by anyone, anywhere, at anytime, and to hold accountable those responsible for any such use.

We underline that the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (CWC), the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (BWC) and the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (Geneva Protocol) are essential for international peace and security.

❗️ We call upon the UN Secretary-General to organize a review of the current UNSGM guidelines and procedures, the UN General Assembly document А/44/561 dated October 4, 1989, in which they are set out, in accordance with paragraph 104 and by analogy to the update conducted in 2007.

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