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The AAP govt in Delhi seems to have turned its back on its promise of abolition of the contract labour system

"Sochi 2014 clean we are ready to start" Zapiro’s Cartoon in Mail & Guardian (South Africa) - 7 February 2014

Professor Bari’s work as a labour leader at a time of political tension and industrial strife, meaning the 1930s and 1940s, took him to steel plants in Burnpur and Kulti in West Bengal as well as to nearby coalfields in Jharia and Raniganj. Though he originally belonged to Patna where he was a teacher, which explains for the honorific before his name, it was to the toiling masses of Jamshedpur (read the workers of Tisco and The Tinplate Company of India) that he gave his best years.

The All India Anti-Nuclear Power Convention at Bhopal on 1st December, 2013, adopted the following People’s Call against Nuclear Power and decided to organize a People’s Parliament at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on 4th March with the participation of all political parties, organizations and individuals who are basically opposed to the use of nuclear power at the present stage of its development and who stand for universal nuclear disarmament.

This study focuses on religiously motivated lobbying groups fighting against sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) policies at the UN. While health policy is usually framed as a part of the secular political domain, it touches upon combustible religious values and engages powerful alliances across religious divides. Catholics and Mormons; Christians and Muslims; Russian Orthodox and American fundamentalists find common ground on traditional values and against SRHR issues at the UN. The conservative religious lobbies comprise constellations of different organizations with various religious affiliations. However, conservative Christian actors constitute a particularly influential bloc wedded to a distinctly conservative social agenda and motivated by pre-modern ideas about gender issues, family politics and women’s health. They represent a key factor in the resistance to SRHR, and work ceaselessly to contest, obstruct and delay the development of relevant UN agendas. Their influence does not reflect their number but is largely due to a striking ability to build alliances across religious boundaries as well as elicit the support of religious communities around the world.