Press releases by ICAN, People for Nuclear Disarmament, Human Survival Project and The Working Group for Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific
South Asia Citizens Web
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Statements by Disarmament Groups Condemn the Third Nuclear Test by North Korea
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Gagging Mickey Mouse
11 February 2013MARTYN Whittock’s recent chronicle of Nazi Germany offers “ a bizarre insight ( into) the fate of Mickey Mouse under the Third Reich”. People in India cavil at the comparison between ‘ Hindutva’ India and Nazi Germany. True we are not in a declared on- going war although some Hindutva ideologues think we are. Muslim and other groups are also censorial. But they pale away when compared with the ferocity of Hindutva intolerance. Pakistani artists like Mehdi Hasan are not allowed to perform in India — more so than Michael Jackson who went to meet ‘ the’ Shiv Sena supremo for permission.
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India: Shocking case of illegal confinement by police of senior journalist - all round condemnation by media bodies
11 February 2013reports & commentary in the media on the illegal detention of the Delhi journalist Iftikhar Gilani and his family by police in plain clothes
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Cambrige Union Debate: Is Religion compatible with 21st Century life?
11 February 2013Is Religion compatible with 21st Century life? How can it be made to fit with modern laws and values? Even if it might be compatible, does it actually do more harm than good?
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India: Invisible World of Domestic Workers Exposed at the Public Hearing
by , 11 February 2013a public hearing on the theme ’Women in the Unorganised (Unprotected) Sector in the Era of Globalization’ organised by Shahri Mahila Kaamgar Union, an affiliate of National Alliance of People’s Movements. The hearing was attended by nearly 250 domestic workers from Gautampuri, Rohini, Faridabad,and other colonies of Delhi and some others from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
