Over 300 abused women have signed a statement opposing Sharia courts and religious bodies, warning of the growing threat to their rights and to their collective struggles for security and independence.
South Asia Citizens Web
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The Sharia debate in the UK: who will listen to our voices?
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US software designers and tech workers take a pledge to refuse creation of databases for government to target individuals based on race, religion, or national origin
15 December 2016A shinning example of socially concerned new working class. Hundreds of Tech workers in the US pledge not to help create databases for retention of data based on race, religion, nationality etc to target them for possible deportations.
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Pakistan: Labour movement leaders seek probe into activities of Sindh Employees Social Security Institution and the Sindh Works Welfare Board - selected news reports
14 December 2016Leaders of trade unions and labour associations lamented on Tuesday that provincial labour adviser Saeed Ghani, on court orders, had been restrained by the government from exercising any executive authority in the affairs of the Sindh Employees’ Social Security Institution (SESSI)
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Atheism is as much a right as the right to religion
by , 13 December 2016... It is therefore imperative that we in India all the more cherish and celebrate plurality, whether of faiths or cultures or assertion of absence of faith in god or religion.
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Video: Karl Marx - Greatness and Illusion | Gareth Stedman Jones in conversation with Tristram Hunt
13 December 2016
