Citizens’ Statement Condemning the Indian Government’s Abstention from the UN Vote on Nuclear Ban

Citizens’ Statement Condemning the Indian Government’s Abstention from the UN Vote on Nuclear Ban

We, as citizens of India strongly condemn the abstention by the Indian government from the UN vote to ban all nuclear weapons. This irresponsible diplomatic gesture goes against much of our own history when we were in the forefront of the diplomatic effort to promote comprehensive nuclear disarmament with an emphasis to go beyond the limitations of the Non-proliferation Treaty(NPT). India today stands on the wrong side of the history when the overwhelming majority of nations in the UN voted for negotiating ban, except a handful of countries having nuclear weapons and those under their influence.
Criminal Negligence in Uranium Mine Takes 3 Lives, Govt Must Probe and Stop Expansion

Criminal Negligence in Uranium Mine Takes 3 Lives, Govt Must Probe and Stop Expansion

This accident raises some serious concerns which the local community and the larger civil society has been voicing for decades. The Uranium Corporation of India Limited(UCIL) functions in complete non-transparency and unaccountability. To cut costs, it compromises with safety measures and employs contractual workers routinely in dangerous work in brazen violation of standard norms.