A former teacher, he founded the Sarvodaya Shramadana movement in 1958, holding firm to the link between the secular principle of development and the Buddhist ideals of altruism and compassion, together with a firm option for non-violence. Among the many honours he received in his long life were the Magsaysay Award in 1969 and the Niwano Peace Prize in 1992.
In 2022, the Supreme Court had intervened by "freezing" the expropriations in the neighbourhood long at the centre of high tensions in East Jerusalem. A judge ordered the eviction of three families by July. Behind the decision is said to be pressure from Nahalat Shimon, a pro-settlement group. The army ordered the seizure of land north of Hebron, a UN note against settler violence.
There are over 8,000 people imprisoned for political reasons and over 300,000 who have been forced to leave the country for the same reasons in a land of just 10 million inhabitants. And ever since the Lukasenko regime forced citizens abroad to return to their homeland to reissue their passports, the number of stateless Belarusians around Europe and the world has multiplied exponentially.
Chinese Human Rights Defenders released a report detailing the stories of children and young people victims of human rights violations, like He Fengmei's daughter, who was separated from her mother a month after her birth and kept in a psychiatric hospital in Henan. In another case, a boy is rejected by schools because his lawyer father defends activists. In Xinjiang children are placed in boarding schools as "orphans" to uproot them from their families.
Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority has authorised Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings to start loading fuel. The nuclear plant is one of the largest electricity producers in the world. The local governor has not yet agreed to then restart.
The Diocese of Mananthavady, in the southern state of Kerala, released a statement addressed to all parties regarding issues affecting Wayanad constituency, like the lack of infrastructure, schools, and hospitals. Gandhi spoke about the same things during a rally but also attacked the ruling party’s ideology.
