. . . gender stereotypes posed particular challenges for workers demanding compensation. In the eyes of lawyer in question, it seem impossible to call attention to Shahnaj’s undeniable suffering without reproducing images of passive female victimhood.
South Asia Citizens Web
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Bangladesh: Tazreen fire 2012 - Quantifying injury, feminising victimhood | Saydia Gulrukh
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Nepal: Decade After Peace, Scant Progress On Justice - Political Parties Fail to Deliver on Promises - Statement by Human Rights Watch
28 November 2016Ten years after signing a peace accord, successive Nepali governments have failed to deliver on its central human rights promises, Human Rights Watch said today. The international community, and particularly the United Nations, should press the government to fulfill its pledges as victims wait in vain for information about missing family members and accountability for crimes committed during the war.
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India - Gujarat: Lifting of the Moratorium from Vapi, Ankleshwar & Vatva is a set back to environment protection and for those affected by industrial pollution in the area
by , 28 November 2016The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change refuses to take policy decision to protect and improve the environment; it should drop the pretense of its existence and merge itself with the Ministry of Industry. The State Pollution Control Boards and Central Pollution Control Board should also now be merged with the Industries Commissionerate
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Demonetisation Blues in India - Youtube song in Hindi
28 November 2016Ye line me khada hai tu jo aajkal
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Full Audio: The Three Waves of Indian Environmentalism - Ramachandra Guha
25 November 2016The 3rd Sunil Memorial Lecture held on 25 November 2016 in JNU, New Delhi. [audio recording via: sacw.net audio archive]
