Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • 57th UN Commission on the Status of Women: Voices from Afghanistan

    8 March 2013

    The engagement of women as suicide bombers in the Taliban insurgency manifests fresh directions in the approaches and ideologies of those who are behind it. Counterinsurgency measures need to pay attention to the factors that drive women and girls to join the Taliban as suicide bombers, says Massouda Jalal

  • India: Understanding the anger and frustration of Muslim Youths in Uttar-Pradesh

    by Vidya Bhushan Rawat, 8 March 2013

    Muslims in Uttar-Pradesh are rightly feeling betrayed by the state government. They continue to protest in different parts of the state as the government of the state is trying to subvert the process of law and getting rid of the entire issue under the pretext that the inquiry has been given to CBI. There are serious issues in this case but before that it is important to understand why the Muslims of the state are restive and agitating and whether their demand has some communal undertones as media is charging.

  • India - Orissa: Anti-Posco stir - women protesters demand halt to land acquisition, withdrawal of police

    by Dilip Simeon’s Blog, 8 March 2013

    As the world celebrates Women’s Day, these village women are engaged in a bitter tussle with the administration to stop land acquisition for the Posco steel project. They also want the five platoons of police still deployed at the site of the proposed mega project in Jagatsinghpur district withdrawn

  • Asia Development Alliance (ADA) Bangkok Declaration 2013

    by Henri Tiphagne, 8 March 2013

    Asia Development Alliance (ADA) Bangkok Declaration 2013
    Asia Development Alliance (ADA) 2013
    Bangkok, 31 Jan. to 2 Feb. 2013
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    ADA Bangkok Declaration 2013
    We, over 70 participants – mainly representatives of national and sub-national development NGO/CSO platforms (NP) and international CSOs and their platforms – of the first meeting of the Asia Development Alliance (ADA) in Bangkok from 31 January to 2 February 2013 held under the theme (…)

  • Bangladesh: Women to remain sloganists only?

    by Farida Akhter, 8 March 2013

    Moving away from core issues of women’s rights and particularly violence against women is going to have a negative impact on the women’s movement. Although women’s rights should incorporate all national issues but national issues must not set aside women’s question at all. The new generation women’s leadership at this point may not have come from women’s movement only, but the new leadership must remain active in asserting their leadership roles keeping in mind that they have to fight against patriarchy, writes Farida Akhter

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