In the geopolitical world of alliances, May was a tense month for the Indo-Pacific region and especially for China. President … More
Category: India
Would repurposing old coal plants help India achieve net zero?
The recent COP26 in Glasgow, like every conference of parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), … More
UN 46th Session NCF Statement Islamic Republic of Afghanistan by Anusmrta Singh
The Next Century Foundation welcomes the first co-signed written agreement between the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and … More
The Kashmir Question: India, Pakistan, China?
Since the signing of the Simla Agreement in 1972, the Kashmir conflict has largely been viewed as the kernel in historically … More
Kashmir comes to Birmingham
A meeting convened jointly by the Association of British Muslims and the Next Century Foundation on the Kashmir issue was … More
Moving things forward on Kashmir
The following is a written statement on Kashmir to the Human Rights Council Forty-second session 9–27 September 2019 Agenda item … More
The Colonised become the Colonisers
A look into Kashmir.
How Hindu Nationalism is Distorting India’s Election – The Atlantic
The NCF’s senior member in Iraq’s Kurdistan, Stafford Clarry, comments further on India’s recent elections. He writes the NCF to … More
Lessons need to be learnt from India
Stafford Clarry, a senior NCF member in Kurdistan, sends some facts and observations in regard to lessons he thinks Kurdistan … More
Modi benefits from increased tensions in Kashmir
As India awaits the results of the largest elections known to humankind, fighting continues along the India-Pakistan border in Jammu … More
India continues to fail its Dalit Women
India’s 2011 census stated that 16% of the Indian population, some 200 million people, are Dalits. Historically, being a Dalit … More
Untangling Afghanistan: Proxy wars and geopolitical rivalries
Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai recently spoke in an interview of Afghanistan’s need for Russian support. Decrying the US for … More
The Precarious Position of India’s Minorities
Oral intervention to be given by the Next Century Foundation at the 37th Session of the United Nations Human Rights … More
Reflections on Punjab: Seventy Years on from Partition
August 1947 marked the end of India as a single state and saw the emergence of today’s Pakistan and India. … More
Systemic corruption does not deserve our tacit consent
The 19th century British politician, Lord Acton, averred that ‘Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’. Over the last 150 … More
The Next Century Foundation at the United Nations – Intervention on Human Rights in Myanmar, Bangladesh and India
The Next Century Foundation took part in the 36th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. During the General … More
Migration Crisis – Fighting Xenophobia
Migration Crisis – Modern Slavery
Charles Bennett on the Indo-Pakistani Nuclear War, Somaliland and Yemen.
Charles Bennett, Director of the European Atlantic Group, argues that there is a serious risk of nuclear confrontation between India … More