 Hello and welcome to another episode of Around the World in 8 Minutes. Today we take a look at the protest in India against the divisive and controversial citizenship law and the issue of release of political prisoners. We also report on the anti-famicide protest in Mexico and the protest by indigenous peoples in Ecuador. On Monday, hundreds joined the protest demonstration called by the Students' Union of Javelal Nehru University at Delhi's Jantar Mantar. The demonstration was part of the larger protest against the Controversial Citizenship Amendment Act or the CAA, which was recently passed by the far-right Indian government. The protesters also condemned the arrest of various anti-CAA protesters under the Draconian Sedition Law and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act or the UAPA. According to the legislation's critics, CAA, along with the proposed National Register of Citizens or NRC is applied by Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party to attack the secular ethos of the Indian constitution. We at the People's Dispatch spoke to some of the protesters. The GNUSU called for a protest march from the Mandi House to the parliament today. Seeing the current NRC-CA NPR laws that have been brought and we think that these laws are the draconian laws that is going to divide people in this country on the basis of religion and the government, specifically the RSS and BJP, is trying their level best to communalize the whole country on the name of Hindu Muslim at this moment in the name of a systemic genocide of the Muslim community. Today's march was called by the GNUSU so that we can assert that we are against the CAA, NRC, NPR. We are calling for a protest march. All the people who are calling for a protest march against this law are trying to suppress it in a way that is being applied by the UAPA, NSS, etc. We are opposing it. Whether it is Kaafil Khan, Sergio Limamo, Akhil Gogo or anyone else, we can be against them but they have the right to speak against CAA, NRC, NPR. We have the right to protest. The way the government is taking away this right, the way the people are saying that you have no right to protest, we want to tell the government that you should read the constitution once again. The constitution gives us the right to protest. You have to believe it or not. It is up to you. But we have the right to protest and we have come here to assert this. The solution law and the UAPS with the solution law is a colonial law which came into the Indian Penal Code quite years ago. And what the JNU Student Union believes that such kind of laws were used by the Britishers to crush the dissenting voices then during the colonial era. And exactly the BJP and the RSS and time and again many governments have used it but specifically now in this era the BJP and the RSS is using this law against the Muslims, the political dissenting voices, specifically the Muslims to crush their voices, to crush their dissent and in this democracy. Meanwhile, a similar protest was organized by students, farmers and workers in Malar Kotla in the North Indian state of Punjab on Sunday. Thousands of people organized the protest and pledged to fight against the CAA till the government repeals it. In Mexico, on February 15, hundreds of residents in Tijuana marched to protest violence against women on Saturday after 25-year-old Ingrid Eskimea was stabbed to death a week ago. Protesters held candles and signs demanding the government to take action against the Femicide as they rallied in the River Zone area just four miles away from the U.S. border. The killing of Eskimea has sparked outrage and prompted several protests across the country after the image of the women's mutilated body appeared on front pages of a number of media outlets. Last year, in August, with the slogan of they don't look after me, they rape me, thousands of women took to the streets in Mexico City and other cities across Mexico against gender-based violence and demanded justice for all its victims. The mobilization was triggered by the surfacing of several cases of rape in the capital committed by police officers, one of the victims being a minor. Feminists in the country have been outraged with the seeming indifference on the part of the state and its institutions to take measures to prevent violence against women and LGBTQ plus people. Such cases have drawn public attention to the fact that security agencies entrusted by the state to protect and serve the people are the ones inflicting such violence on them. An average of 10 women are killed in Mexico every day with the number reaching 3825 victims in 2019. In our last story for this episode, we take a look at the protest of indigenous communities in Ecuador. On February 13, dozens of members of the indigenous communities of Kofan and Varani demonstrated in front of the headquarters of the constitutional court of Ecuador in Quito, demanding that the court combines a series of cases that these groups have won so it establishes a legal precedent. In August 2019, the Varani community received an unprecedented victory in a lawsuit against three government bodies for conducting a faulty consultation process with the community before putting their territory up for sale in an international oil auction. Similarly, in 2018, Kofan people won a landmark legal battle to protect the headwaters of the Aguirreco River, one of the Ecuador's largest and most important rivers, and nullify 52 mining concessions that had been granted by the government in violation of the Kofan's right to consent. According to Ecuador's 2008 constitution, in order to carry out any type of extractive activity in an indigenous territory prior to consultations with the resident of indigenous communities must take place. We hear from some of the protesters who were in front of the constitutional courts. We hear from the executive that the sentences are obligatory and immediate fulfillment. That reparation is a right that these communities have to be violated by a right and they are affected by life. And that's why today we're going to go there and tell the mayor in his door, and the minister of resources in his door, that we're not going to get tired until the vulnerable rights are repaired. That's all we have for today's episode of Around the World in 8 Minutes. For more such stories follow us on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. And also visit our website at www.peoplesdispatch.org. Thank you. Thank you.