South Asia Citizens Web

Heidelberg lecture by Dr. Harsh Mander in July 2022

The government is slowly chipping away at the rights of civil society groups using laws such as FCRA, PMLA

The Women’s Action Forum strongly condemns the decision banning women’s entry on picnic spots in Bajaur, announced by a tribal Jirga. Not only is this in blatant violation of several fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan 1973, including, Article 25 on Equality of Citizens and Article 26 on Non-Discrimination in respect of access to public space

PARLIAMENTARY committee has authorised the military leadership to hold talks with the newly energised Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, a group that has mercilessly butchered tens of thousands of Pakistani civilians and soldiers. This cowardly and shameful abdication of responsibility suggests a rubber-stamp parliament that is good for naught but seeking perks and privileges for its members.

On 14th July 2022, Supreme Court dismissed a writ petition filed by Himanshu Kumar and twelve other people in a 2009 case that sought an independent investigation in the extra-judicial killings of adivasis in the villages of (then Dantewada) now Sukma district of Chhattisgarh. This came to be known as the Gompad massacre, and it includes two major incidents of violence in September and October 2009 that happened in the villages of Gompad and Gachchanpalli along with 2-3 smaller incidents nearby, in which at least 17 adivasis were killed.