South Asia Citizens Web

Report by international Commission of Jurists in June 2019

The film, Tremble and Obey, includes interviews with many of the key participants of the protest movement who were subsequently placed on China’s ‘most wanted’ list ... On the night of June 3, 1989, the People’s Liberation Army turned its guns on students and ordinary Chinese who had been calling for a democratic future for the country.

Radical feminist analyses have always placed considerable emphasis on the crucial role played by social reproduction for the development of capitalism. Early social reproduction analyses – primarily premised on housework but also more broadly concerned with wagelessness – developed a robust critique of Marxian views that identified processes of value-generation only with the productive sphere, and de facto deployed ‘productive’ and ‘paid’ labour as synonyms. 1 Some more recent approaches, by contrast, propose social reproduction as a ‘theory’ (SRT), and deploy the concept in order to focus on how labour is regenerated daily and inter-generationally through private and public institutions in contemporary contexts.

The syllabus of four departments — sociology, political science, history and English— were sent back for review after protests from Professor Rasal Singh, a member of the academic council and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-backed National Democratic Teachers Front (NDTF). "No controversial material, which may hurt the sentiments of any organisation and community, will be included in the syllabi,"a university official told PTI as saying

The ICJ today condemned the raids on 11 July by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the homes and offices of Anand Grover and Indira Jaising, two lawyers prominent for frequently challenging the Indian government’s failures to respect and promote the rights of all people in India. Grover and Jaising are both Supreme Court lawyers and co-founders of the Lawyers Collective, a non-governmental organization.