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Appeal issued in March 2014 by People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism

The Shiv Sena will continue to oppose the "anti-national Muslims" who do not respect the country’s laws and create problems for people, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said here Tuesday

NTUI also recognises that neither can it influence this outcome on its own nor can it be achieved by merely all progressive trade unions coming together. The task of building a struggle for a just economy, an egalitarian society and a democratic polity that must go on beyond the general election, calls for the widest possible united front of all progressive forces. With its Charter for the 16th Lok Sabha Elections, the NTUI commits itself to this.

When a community healthcare worker in Pakistan leaves her home armed with a medical kit, she may have stepped on the frontline of a dangerous war in which extremists stand opposed to polio vaccination campaigns.

The Bangladeshi government should publicly explain what efforts have been made to investigate the abduction, torture, and killing of the labor rights activist Aminul Islam two years ago, including alleged links to state officials, Human Rights Watch said today. While police have filed charges against a missing suspect, there have been no apparent efforts to investigate allegations that members of Bangladeshi security forces were part of the conspiracy to kill the labor activist.