The notes from all the plenary sessions and workshops are being compiled and a comprehensive declaration as well as resolutions and report will be shared soon. The points that have been included here are the immediate action points that emerged and were ratified in the final plenary of the 6th National Convention on Right to Food & Work which was held from the 23 – 25 September, 2016 at Gossner Middle School, Ranchi
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India: Ranchi Declaration - Plan of Action adopted at National Convention on Right to Food & Work (Sept 2016)
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Escalating war hysteria in Pakistan and India - Joint Statement by South Asian Women Journalists
4 October 2016We, the undersigned, members of South Asian Women in Media (SAWM), condemn the escalating war hysteria in Pakistan and India
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Textile Workers Strike in Bombay of Feb-March 1966 | S.G. Sardesai
3 October 2016The 1966 general strike of over two hundred thousand textile workers of Bombay embracing all the sixty mills in the city, started from the morning of February 28th, The call for the strike had been given after prolonged campaigning and preparations by the Mumbai Girni Kamgar Union, affiliated to the All-India Trade Union Congress.
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India: SAHMAT Statement on attack on Central University of Haryana
3 October 2016That the staging of a play written by the renowned writer and activist, Mahasweta Devi, would lead to questions, inquiry and ‘trouble’ for two teachers of the English department of the Central University of Haryana, Snehsata and Manoj Kumar is very hard to digest and must be condemned in the strongest of terms.
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SAHR statement on the postponement of the SAARC Summit
30 September 2016South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, is deeply concerned about the postponement of the 19th South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit which was scheduled to be held in Pakistan in November 2016.
