What does this Budget mean for the economic welfare of the larger population? Is there a neoliberal logic reflected in the Budget? Can the economy withstand the volatile global financial markets?
What does this Budget mean for the economic welfare of the larger population? Is there a neoliberal logic reflected in the Budget? Can the economy withstand the volatile global financial markets?
An increasing proportion of workers today falls in the category of migrant labour; between 185 million to 192 million according to 2005 estimates. Most of them come from poor countries of the so-called Third World. Given their bottom line position in terms of economic, civic, and physical conditions, the United Nations itself was moved in 2003 to adopt an International Convention on Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families. It is perhaps not surprising that most labour exporting and receiving countries including India, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, have not signed or ratified the Convention; neither have the most developed capitalist countries taken those steps, including the United States, Germany and Japan.
. . . even efforts guided by the best intentions to redress violence against women here run up against the limits of change in a society where cultural practices are so powerful that few can resist them, not even the president.
Ever since 26/11, India has made massive purchases of communications intelligence equipment from secretive companies from India and abroad. In the absence of effective legal oversight, it threatens the democracy it was bought to defend.
he Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called the banning of BBC and other foreign news channels across Pakistan in the last few days arbitrary, futile and a violation of citizens’ right to information and freedom of expression.
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