Bharat Dogra

A Palestinian woman holds the shrouded body of a child killed by Israeli bombardment of the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 26, 2024. (Photo: Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images)

For almost 11 months the world has been seeing documented evidence from Gaza—in the form of videos or ground-based reports—of the most horrible killings of innocent persons including a large number of women and children. Nearly 52,000 people have been confirmed by health authorities to have been killed in this violence or are buried in …

Share:Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X (Twitter)Share on TelegramShare on RedditShare on EmailWith new announcements pension schemes for government employees are in headlines again. As well-informed and educated government employees are very keenly involved in getting better pension benefits, certainly all aspects of these pension schemes will be explored in great detail and occupy […]

With the emergence of climate change mitigation and adaptation as very important challenges, an important discovery was that if many of the natural farming practices of traditional farming were brought back this would also contribute a lot to climate change mitigation and adaptation by doing away with the bulk of fossil fuels in farming including those used in chemical fertilizers, avoiding various poisonous agro-chemicals, by increasing the organic content of soil, by reducing costs of farmers, by promoting mixed farming with many more trees and in other ways. Hence the already strong case for natural farming, combing much of traditional farming with some improvements, based essentially on the same principles, very suitable for more self-reliant communities of small farmers, became stronger in the context of the urgency of climate change mitigation and adaptation.

People gather in Rome to call for peace, February 15, 2022 | Photo Credit: Reuters

This teacher in Gaza has set up a tent school to offer displaced Palestinian children an education that would otherwise have stopped due to Israel’s war.

When two brothers are fighting and hurting each other very badly just to advance the ambitions of a third party, what is the best possible advice for them?

The ruins of Avdiivka. Photo Credit: Russian Defense Ministry

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Climate change is one of the most significant issues of our times. It must get very high priority. Both climate change mitigation and adaptation are highly important issues. On the one hand the world must very significantly reduce climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. On the other hand the preparations, particularly of the more vulnerable countries and communities, to face more adverse weather conditions and the resulting more severe disasters must improve significantly. Their adaptation capacity must improve significantly. This can only happen in conditions of more cooperation among communities and countries, and with vulnerable people having more access to resources. Hence conditions of peace and higher levels of justice and equality (international justice as well as more equality within various countries) are very important for progress in climate change mitigation and adaptation.