Tibetan climate crisis gains global attention at COP30 in Brazil

IANS | November 14, 2025 7:47 PM

Brasilia, Nov 14 (IANS) The Sweden based-Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA) at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) participated in the 30th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 30) in Brazil’s Belem city, followed by high-level dialogues in Rio de Janeiro, to highlight one of the world’s most neglected ecological flashpoints and the rapidly worsening climate crisis across Tibet and the Himalayan region.

Europe faces choice between silence and accountability on Pakistan's digital repression: Report

IANS | November 14, 2025 2:36 PM

Islamabad, Nov 14 (IANS) European states and institutions stand at a crossroads over whether to treat Pakistan's clampdown on digital freedom as a bilateral stability problem — handled quietly and rewarded with trade, security cooperation and migration-management concessions — or as a human-rights crisis that requires visible diplomatic pressure, independent media support, protection for exiles and meaningful consequences for rights-abusing policies, a report detailed on Friday.