Lahore, 1 November 2018. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has greatly welcomed the Supreme Court’s landmark judgement acquitting 47-year-old Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy in 2010 and sentenced to death. In a statement issued today
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After the Aasia Bibi verdict, a longer battle: Public statement by Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP)
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India: Public Statement by Jagdalpur Legal Aid Group on the Arrest of Advocate Sudha Bharadwaj
2 November 2018he Jagdalpur Legal Aid Group and Collective strongly condemns and mourns the incidents of arrest and police remand of Advocate, friend, mentor, and colleague Sudha Bharadwaj and calls upon a collective expression of solidarity and strength from all activists, students, lawyers, democratic rights and civil liberty communities, friends and the general public.
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India: Crisis in Higher Education - A national convention organised by Joint Forum for Movement on Education | Press Release 29 Oct 2018
1 November 2018The JOINT FORUM FOR MOVEMENT ON EDUCATION successfully organised a Mass National Convention of all national organisations of teachers, students and parents who are active in elementary, primary, secondary and tertiary levels of Education in India. The well-attended Convention took place at the Mavalankar Auditorium in New Delhi today, October 29, 2018.
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India: Scrap the Bullet Train Project - Memorandum to Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) by Bhumi Adhikar Andolan [Land Rights Movement] (signed by reps. of 12 political parties)
31 October 2018Farmers, Adivasis and other affected communities demanded scrapping of the project, alleged coercion and impingement on their democratic rights
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Pakistan: Text of Supreme Court judgment on Asia Bibi Case
31 October 2018Asia Bibi had been living on death row since 2010 when she became the first woman to be sentenced to death under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Asia Bibi acquitted after Supreme Court overturns death sentence for blasphemy
