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  Attack on security convoy in Pulwama Kashmir - Press Release by Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace & Democracy (15 Feb 2019)

  16 February

  PIPFPD is shocked and saddened by the loss of lives of 44 CRPF personnel in a militant attack in Lethapora, Pulwama, Jammu & Kashmir. The gruesome manner in which an explosives-laden vehicle, driven by a suicide bomber, rammed into a CRPF convoy and the scale of the operation is horrifying. Loss of precious lives is tragic and painful. While investigations are underway, it is alleged that Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) orchestrated this dastardly attack.

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  Jan 2019 Report on exploitation and abuse in Pakistan’s garment industry | HRW

  3 February

  Pakistan’s government is failing to enforce laws that could protect millions of garment workers from serious labour rights abuses says a report of Human Rights Watch

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  India: Prioritise Social Security Pensions and Maternity Entitlements in Govt. Spending - Dec 2018 letter by economists to finance minister

  30 January

  This is a follow-up to our letter of 20 December 2017, where we tried to flag two priorities for the next Union Budget: an increase in social security pensions, and adequate provision for maternity benefits. Since both proposals were ignored, we are writing again, well in advance of the next Budget, with the same recommendations.

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  India: Jan 2019 Audio from Calcutta book discussion on Neeladri Bhattacharya’s The Great Agrarian Conquest

  15 January

  In conversation with Neeladri Bhattacharya on his monograph The Great Agrarian Conquest (published by Permanent Black in 2018). This event was held on 14 January 2019 and organised in collaboration with Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, a unit of at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

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  India: 1983 leaflet from the Seamen’s trade union spelling out demands of workers in shipping industry

  10 January

  Scanned version of 1983 Leaflet from the Forward Seamen’s Union of India (FSUI) based ib Calculla affiliated to CITU

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