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WASHINGTON, DC: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) 2024 "40 Years of Hope" Celebration, Sept. 26, 2024
NCMEC held its “40 Years of Hope” celebration on Sept. 26, 2024, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. For 40 years, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has been the leading global nonprofit in child protection. Over the past four decades, NCMEC has assisted with the safe recovery of more than 400,000 missing children, stopped the spread of millions of child sexual abuse images, and protected children with groundbreaking prevention education around the world. Claire Edkins /NCMEC
Race for Refuge raises money to fight trafficking in St. Louis and to provide refuge for girls rescued from sexual trafficking and exploitation.
The gateway to John Peyton's house, or possibly to one ot the island's churches. Now just a grassy field, complete with a wandering Fergusson.
Signature du Protocole de partage d’informations et de signalement d’allégations d’exploitation et d’abus sexuels, entre la MINUSCA, les Agences des Nations Unies, les ONG internationales et les partenaires locaux ce lundi 03 Septembre à Bangui. Cérémonie en présence de la Ministre de la promotion de la femme, de la famille et de la protection de l’enfant, , Gisele Pana, du Représentant spécial du Secrétaire général des Nations Unies, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, de son adjointe, Najat Rochdi, également Coordinatrice humanitaire et Représentante résidente du PNUD, ainsi de quelques membres du gouvernement et des chefs de missions diplomatiques et organisations internationales.
Photos: UN/MINUSCA - Hervé serefio
Koh Samet - lovely beaches, water and sand. The island is located on a very convenient distance from Bangkok (2.5h by car + 30 min ferry) making it a perfect starting or ending destination when on longer trips. Unfortunately the island is over exploited, full of trash, pricy and the food in the restaurants adapted to tourist (unless you eat in the village instead).
nace de una leyenda urbana
pero q en verda obvio q si igual
se expuso en el peda y nos fuimos de viaje a bolivia
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STUDENTS FEDERATION OF INDIA .
ALL INDIA STUDENTS FEDERATION .
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An Appeal To the Students of SIS .
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We are going into a crucial election to the JNUSU on 191h November, 1999. These elections assume special .
significance in the context of an unprecedented globalisation, an increasingly hegemonic imperialist world ordf3r, .
manifested in new forms of economic exploitation, attacks on national sovereignty and the people of the Th1rd .
World in general. On the other hand In the country we find an opportunistic anti-people coalition led by th~ _B_JP .
which has pursued a sectarian nationalism steeped in militant obscurantism and an abhorrently d1v1s1ve .
agenda threatening our national unity. In such a dangerous context it is very important to choose the co~r~ct .
politics -a genuinely progressive politics, which will resist through consistent organised and uncomprom1smg .
struggles-the right reactionary onslaught of the Sangh Giroh on our fundamental edifices. To~ay when the .
secular and democratic edifice of our constitution and the pluralist and diverse nature of our c1v11 soc1ety IS .
facing a concerted attack from the fanatics and communalists of the Hindu right we are confident that the JNU .
students movement will once again set a decisive agenda for the students movement across the country. .
A process of reversing the consensual foreign and nuclear policy that India had been pursuing culminated in .
nuclear jingoism in the aftermath of Pokhran and the government was having no explanation as to why this .
"nuclear strength" failed to prevent the Pakistan sponsored Kargil conflict despite talking of a credible nuclear .
deterrence. The Vajpayee government also compromised India's national interest by making a commitment to .
sign the unequal CTBT. Keeping aside the rhetoric of Swadeshi, the BJP is pursuing ruthlessly the policies of .
economic liberalisation which have led to untold suffering and misery for the working people of our country. The .
recent hike in the prices of diesel and foodgrains, hike in bus fares etc. only reflect the ruthless governments .
resort to 'feel-good rhetorics' plagued by complete vacuity of pro-people ideas. .
The present government has shown an uncanny determination to subvert .the secular nature of the state from within and they have indulged in tampering with history text books, infiltrating the premier academic institutions with ASS ideologues like M.L. Sandhi, V.L. Grover, Rastogi and others and a blatant attempt to saffronise the entire education system. The attempts to withdraw the state from social sector expenditure and especially so from the education sector has only led to the HAD Minister masterminding a Private Universities Bill, cutting of subsidies on education, funds for hostels and books, and the very recent conspiracy to scuttle indigeneous research In the field of International Relations and Area studies by removing them from the UGC-JAF/NET examination setup. We have to realise that the privatisation of education and the effort to communalise education go hand in hand and this menace can only be fought with a vision and a ~adical agenda. The twin aspects of saffronisation and privatisation has to be seen along with the BJP's penchant for constitutional charges-an euphemism for murdering democracy and their growing authoritarianism which is getting reflected in the University campuses also. .
In our University too we have been seeing the effects of privatisation in the form of lack of hostel facilities, .
shortage of books and journals in our library, cuts in scholarships and in other myriad forms. When these have been resisted by the United students movement, efforts to discourage were made firstly in the form of threats to ban our legitimate political activities and then by imprisonment, disciplinary action, threat of sine die and police action. However despite these adversities the SFI-AISF led JNUSU rallied the students in United struggles and the students movement made historic achievements: .
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Resolution of the hostel crisis b}'.-providing temporary accommodation and also long term solution in the form of new hostels. .
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Doubling of MCM scholarships from Rs.300/-to Rs.600/-per month after a long gap of 15 years. .
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Support scholarship of Rs.2000/-per month to Science School Students. .
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The setting up of the GSCASH and getting financial and functional autonomy for it so that the VC will take immediate action on the findings forwarded by it. .
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The 10 deprivation points to be added before the M.Phil viva-voce after approval of the Academic Council. .
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The effort to scrap the fund for SIS field trips to Ph.D students has bee stalled, the proposed 20% cut annually has been withdrawn and the amount increased to Rs.12 lakhs. .
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Three computers have been exclusively installed for students and 2 others are to be made operative. A participative Internet Committee inclusive of SIS Councillors and students is functioning. .
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Public Address System have been installed in Room No. 114 and 213 of Sl and also recording system for documentation of seminars in line with our fight for better infrastructure. .
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Our intervention has ensured for the first time in the history of JNU the SC/ST quota in admissions actually exceeded 22.5%. .
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Prof. Bh~mbri Committee Aeport on the problems of dalits has been accepted and steps are being taken for Implementation of its recommendations which include personalised remedial courses for dalit students (UGC grant of about Rs.4 lakhs would be available for the purpose) and an independent administrative committee to deal with grievances and problems along the lines of the GSCASH. This was a demand placed by us in the last year and we consider this to be a milestone in our struggle against dalit oppression. .
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WASHINGTON, DC: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) 2024 "40 Years of Hope" Celebration, Sept. 26, 2024
NCMEC held its “40 Years of Hope” celebration on Sept. 26, 2024, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. For 40 years, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has been the leading global nonprofit in child protection. Over the past four decades, NCMEC has assisted with the safe recovery of more than 400,000 missing children, stopped the spread of millions of child sexual abuse images, and protected children with groundbreaking prevention education around the world. Sarah Baker/NCMEC
NCMEC held its “40 Years of Hope” celebration on Sept. 26, 2024, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. For 40 years, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has been the leading global nonprofit in child protection. Over the past four decades, NCMEC has assisted with the safe recovery of more than 400,000 missing children, stopped the spread of millions of child sexual abuse images, and protected children with groundbreaking prevention education around the world. Claire Edkins /NCMEC
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Yechurfs ploy to demolish Ram Sethu and Ram Avatarl .
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Friends, 17/ 10/2007 .
It was a pleasant surprise to read comrade Sita-Ram Yechuri's article "Misusing faith" tn the People's Democracy dated 23rd September. It was a very smart ploy by the Marxist ideologue to demolish the faith of the Hindu people, not only in Ram Sethu, but also in Sri Ram Avatar. .
It was smart in the sense that Comrade Sitaram exploited the ancient Dasavatar concept widely believed by the Hindus tn order to refute the historicity of Sri Ram himself. He writes, "The Dasavatars can thus be seen as a remarkable recording of the evolution of human life and Its civilisational advance till the Aryan mastered the horse and majestically moved across lands." What a rich tribute to the Hindu genius! The write up creates the impression that the Marxist leader accepts that the ancient sages of India were wefl familiar with the theory of evolution millennia before the Western scientist Charles Darwin propounded it. Moreover, Yechury also pretends to adm1t that ancient Indian seers were endowed with great scientific acumen, because, otherwise, they could never have understood the complex process of evolution so correctly and recorded it in such lucid terms. .
But, his real mtentlon, in th1s case, 1s not to show appreciation of the w1sdom of ancient Jndia. He ts applying his logic 111 a backhanded way to prove that avatars are only symbolic and none of them ever lived in flesh and blood. He also wants to establish that the concept of avatars is just a symbolic anticipation of the 'historical materialism' of Kar1 Marx. He Is trying to prov1de a materialistic interpretation of the concept of Dasavatara and thereby take away any spiritual foundation in the hoary Marx1an traditions of 'logical positivism'. look at what the Marxist ideologue writes:-.
"In this very spirit, consider the following Interpretation of the mythological Dasavataras. We are told in the Mahabharata that in every yuga (epoch), God descends on earth to uphold dharma and to cleanse it. At the end of the present yuga, God is supposed to appear in the form of the tenth avatar, Kalk1 avatar. .
"The first avatar is in the form of fish. Science has now confirmed that the first life forms evolved underwater. The second is the tortoise, amphibious capable of living both on land and in water. The third is the boar, able to live only on land. The transition of life from underwater to land marks this state. The next is the Narasimha avatar reflecting the transition from the animal to the human form. This Is followed by the Vaman avatar representing the evolution of the human form tn 1ts dwarf size. This is followed by Parasuram who wields the axe as his weapon. This represents the stage of the clearing of forests for human settlement. Ram who follows wields the bow and arrow as his weapon, ie., a weapon that can protect the human settlements by attacking the enemy from a distance. Balaram who comes next wields the plough. This is the stage of evolut1on of human CIVIlizations to the levels of an agrarian economy. Krishna represents the further advance of human civilization in the stage of domestication of the cow and the development of the diary economy. Kalki who is yet to arrive is portrayed as riding a horse representing the state of the domestication of the horse." (Sitaram Yechuri-People's Democracy dated 23rd September) .
But, then, there is an interesting side view that cannot be ignored. The whole postulate Comrade Sitaram provides is but a reproduction of what Mahayogi Aurobindo had written about 80 years ago. Yechuri has quoted Sri Aurobindo with minor verbal changes without acknowledging the original source. Borrowing of such a brilliant and luminous concept word by word, without even remotely referring to the original text, is called 'plagiarism'. .
Of course, communists do not attach much importance to bourgeois values like honesty and may not bother about such 'niceties'. Yechury might even claim that it was his original discovery. If Sri Aurobindo had written it earlier, it could be explained as great minds thinking alike! It is for the readers to come to their own conclusions. But no one dare deny that the similarity between the two is too striking to be explained away as.accidental. .
But what does Sitaram Yechury do in his borrowed plumes, with his swiped sagacity? To put the situation in context one has to bring in the rather unkind image of a monkey borrowing his master's razor. Because, the significance of Sri Aurobindo's concept of Dasavatar is that it rises from a foundation of India's spiritual vision and understanding of history. Not only that. He also convincingly concluded that the theory of evolution so strikingly advanced by our rishis makes Sri Ram as historical personality, logically inevitable and rationally unassailable. Quoting Sri Aurobindo on the concept of Dasavatars and the historicity of Sri Ram will be in order in this context: .
"Avatarhood would have little meaning if it were not connected with the evolution. The Hindu procession of the ten avatars is itself, as it were, a parable of evolution. First the fish avatar, then the amphib1ous animal between land and water, then the land animal, then the man-lion avatar, bridging man and animal, then man as dwarf, small and undeveloped and physical but contatning in himself the godhead and taking possession of existence, then the rajasic, sattwic, nlrgun avatars, leading the human development from the vrtal rajasic to the sattwic mental man and again the overmental superman. Knshna, Buddha and Kalki depict the last three stages, the stages of the spiritual development -Krishna opens the possibility of overmind, Buddha tnes to shoot beyond to the supreme liberation but that liberation is still negative, not returntng upon earth to complete positively the evolut1on; Kalk1 IS to correct this by bringing the Kingdom of the Divine upon earth, destroytng the opposing asura forces. The progresston is striking and unmistakable." (Sri Aurobindo Volume 22, page 401, 402) .
"As for the Avatarhood, I accept it for Ram because he fills a place tn the scheme-and seems to me to fill 1t nghtly-and .
because when 1 read the Ramayana I feel a great afflatus which 1 recognise and which makes of 1ts story-mere fairy-tale though it 1 seems-a parable of great critical transitional event that happened in the terrestrial evolution and gives to the main character's t personality and action a Significance of the large typrcal cosmic kind which these actions would not have had tf they had been done c by another man in another scheme of events. The avatar is not bound to do extraordinary actions, but he is bound to g1ve hrs acts 11 or his work or what he is -any of these or all -a significance and an effect1ve power that are part of something essential to be done .
in the hrstory of the earth and its races. p All the same, if anybody does not see as I do and wants to eject Ram from h1s place, I have no obJection -I have no tt partrcular partiality for Ram -provided somebody is put in who can worthily fill up the gap his absence leaves. There was somebody .
there, Valmlki's Ram or another Ram or somebody not Ram." (Sri Aurobindo Vol. 22 page 414, 415) h1 Thus it will be seen that Sitaram Yechury refers to avatara concept to faith of Sri Rama, whereas Sn Aurobindo puts him on .
h1s hrstorical pedestal. A classic case of devil quoting the scriptures. ttl We call upon all the Nationalists, Democratic, Progressive and Secular minds of this country to stand against Yt the UPA's comments & observation on Bhagwan Shri Ram & Ramsethu and the so-called intellectual like Sita Ram to Yechrui & other communists' perverted minds. We also appeal to the student community of JNU to rally behind ABVP .
ca to isolate and expose this Congress-DMK-communists unholy alliance at the centre and BSF-YFE-Left-etc. in our campus and save Ramsethu to maintain the unique culture & heritage of our esteemed country. .
Vandemataram! Bharat Mata ki Jai!!.
Sc Sd/-Amit Singh, President, ABVP-JNU. Sd/-Saurabh Dubey, Vice-President, ABVP-JNU. .
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