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First, Kashmiri Afzal Guru was hanged and now the region is under curfew in India’s heartless display of retributive justice

a memo that India’s Home Ministry circulated late last year to Indian missions abroad, stipulating that gay couples, single men and women, nonmarried couples and couples from countries where surrogacy is illegal be prohibited from hiring a commercial surrogate in India. As of an unspecified date, foreigners who want to hire a surrogate must be a “man and woman,” the new rule says, “[who] are duly married and the marriage should be sustained at least two years.

Full audio of the second Shahid Azmi memorial Lecture , delivered by Senior Lawyer at Mumbai High Court, Adv. Yug Mohit Chaudhary, on 9th February 2013, at the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi.

The Rape of Bangladeshi Women and Girls by the Pakistan Army in the Genocide of 1971 from Tarek Fatah on Vimeo.

Participants: Ritu Menon, Eminent Writer & Women’s Rights Activist, Women Unlimited, India; Anisuzzaman, Eminent Scholar & Professor Emeritus, Department of Bangla, Dhaka University, Bangladesh; Ibn Abdur Rehman, Peace & Human Rights Activist, Director, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Pakistan. Moderator: Ranabir Samaddar, Director, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India