133 संगठनों और 858 लोगों की तरफ़ से जारी बयान Scrap the “Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance” Immediately इस बयान पर दस्तख़त करने वाले संगठनों और व्यक्तियों की फ़ेहरिस्त इसके अंग्रेज़ी वर्ज़न में देखें.
A STATEMENT BY 133 ORGANIZATIONS and 858 INDIVIDUALS Dear friends, At the age of 18, we can vote for our councilors, MLAs, MPs. At 18, we decide who will make and implement policies that affect us, our loved ones, our community, our country. At 18, we are supposed to be mature enough to responsibly exercise … Continue reading Scrap the “Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance” Immediately: A Statement →
A new federal program profiles and surveils ordinary US citizen travelers who otherwise have no legitimate reason for being profiled. The biggest irony, as several Air Marshals observed, is that that potentially illegal program which infringes on the privacy and constitutional rights of US citizens, is also being paid for by those very same US citizens. Just like with the NSA. [...]
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