Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Sri Lanka: Sunila Abeysekera’s courageous advocacy for human rights and gender equality

    by Pamela Philipose, 15 September 2013

    In early 2012, noted Sri Lankan activist Sunila Abeysekera, 60, was the focus of a hate campaign for having engaged with the UN Human Rights Council and supported the recent adoption of the Council resolution on “promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka”. She was attacked for having betrayed Sri Lanka at that juncture but for Abeysekera, such attacks were nothing new and had never stopped her indefatigable advocacy of human rights and gender equality for over 25 years." In 1998, she was presented with the United Nations Human Rights Award for the Asia Pacific Region. Pamela Philipose interviewed her earlier this year.

  • Who Rules Pakistan? : A 1948 Publication of Communist Party on Pakistan

    14 September 2013

    This is a scanned and PDF version of the August 1948 publication of the Communist Party, printed in Bombay. It is a scathing commentary on the state of affairs in Pakistan one year after its creation.

  • India: Tributes to Vinod Raina

    by sacw.net, 12 September 2013

    Vinod Raina, prominent intellectual and activist for the Right to education died in New Delhi Delhi on the 12 of September 2013. A compilation of news reports and tributes to Vinod Raina is being gathered and posted here.

  • Goodbye Sunila Abeysekara

    by Subhash Gatade, 12 September 2013

    Sri Lanka’s top UN Human Rights award winner Sunila Abeysekara died at a private hospital in Colombo on Monday afternoon after a long battle with cancer. A founder of Sri Lanka’s feminist movement, Ms. Abeysekara was a leading socialist activist for minority rights, women’s, workers and peasants rights. Recently she was prominent on Lankan human rights issues at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. She was also a noted Sinhala folk and opera singer. Ms. Abeysekera, daughter of the late (…)

  • Rajnath denies rift in BJP // Lets believe everything we’re told to..

    by Dilip Simeon’s Blog, 12 September 2013

    Rajnath denies rift in BJP
    No one is unhappy in the BJP There are no differences of opinionWe are all one happy familyThere is nothing unusual about Robert’s land acquisitionsNarendraji has no ambitions to be PMThe RSS is a cultural organization with no political interestThe BJP chooses its own president, PM candidate etc.The RSS loves Muslims and ChristiansV.D. Savarkar had nothing to do with the murder of one Mohandas GandhiThere is no financial crisis in PunjabPunjab leaders urgently (…)

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