South Asia Citizens Web

October 11, 2025 | New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India strongly condemns the exclusion of women journalists from the press conference held on Friday, 10 October 2025, by Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi at the Afghan Embassy in New Delhi. The conference was meant to address diplomatic and bilateral engagements during Mr. Muttaqi’s visit to India

People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) India, is shocked at the troubling views expressed by Dr Yogesh Singh, professor and Vice Chancellor Delhi University on 28th September, 2025 in a speech titled “Naxal Mukt Bharat: Ending Red Terror Under Modi’s Leadership, Why Campuses are Targets?’ The speech was addressed to university teachers, students and others and was later emailed to both former and current students of Delhi University, using the vast database available to the university. It was also uploaded on Prof Singh’s official YouTube channel and on his social media platforms. The speech has three dimensions which are particularly troubling from the point of view of the Vice Chancellor’s responsibility to ensure that he is faithful to constitutional values.

AITUC rejects the draft labour policy released on 8th October 2025 for very valid reasons. This draft policy named as, “Shram Shakti Niti 2025” has been unveiled as a unilateral diktat of the BJP government. This comes in a blatant violation to the established tripartite process. This deeply alarming and anti-democratic move has left the workers and the Trade Unions in a sense of shock and betrayal. AITUC urges upon the MOLE to immediately withdraw the draft and initiate discussions with the CTUs before finalising it for public opinion.

The September 2025 uprising in Nepal forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli from office and left nineteen young people dead in the streets of Kathmandu. This event requires serious analysis from those committed to real social change. While we stand with the youth who risked their lives against a corrupt and violent state, we must also honestly assess what this movement achieved, what it failed to accomplish, and what it reveals about the possibilities and limits of spontaneous rebellion today.

Lahore, 2 October 2025. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), the Women’s Action Forum (Lahore), Shirkat Gah-Women’s Resource Centre, South Asia Partnership-Pakistan, Simorgh, and the Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) strongly condemn a recent advertisement sponsored by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting that depicts journalists, NGO workers and ‘freelance’ researchers as potential instruments of ‘enemy propaganda.’ Framing civil society actors and independent media as part of an information war is deeply irresponsible and undermines the very freedoms that sustain a democratic society.