South Asia Citizens Web

The new abortion law passed last month decriminalizes abortion in the circumstances of serious ill-health of the woman or malformation of the foetus, rape, incest or statutory rape. But, it means that all women can now speak openly about abortion, and can, when ill after a complication resulting from a future illegal abortion, go to the hospitals for treatment with more freedom. And the struggle continues.

The law came into the National Assembly only two months after the women’s organization, the Muvman Liberasyon Fam (MLF), had held ceremonies in two cemeteries with the families of women who had died as a direct result of abortion still being illegal. The MLF had over the past three years accentuated its campaign for abortion decriminalization

Trade unionists of the United Kingdom, old comrades of the labour movement of Pakistan and progressive Pakistani diasporas living in England have come together to form “Friends of PILER (FoP)”, a network, in London to muster international support for Pakistani workers.

The Guwahati incidents and others elsewhere in the region have shown that seeping intolerance and sexual violence that go hand in hand have established deep roots in our own region.

Election 2014 should be fought on the issue of violence against women

Statements by workers organisations following events of 18 July 2012 on at the Maruti Suzuki plant at Manesar.