South Asia Citizens Web

The Women’s League of Burma (WLB), a coalition of 13 women’s
organizations representing Burma’s main ethnic groups, called on Wednesday for the inclusion of women in the country’s ongoing efforts to end decades of ethnic conflict.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called the removal of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani a sad occasion in a country where democratic traditions have perpetually been denied the nourishment they need to take roots.

The world needs to move towards a simultaneous action at local, national regional and international level to confront the social, economic and ecological crisis which the present development model has caused. What we need instead is to defend our commons and total transformation towards sustainable consumption and production patterns. The greedy green economy is not a path for a solution towards this.

Whereas violence is considered by various political tendencies as radical, productive of closure, and susceptible to legitimising (ideological) control; the truth is quite the opposite.

We are forced to gather outside your residence today. We have broken with our tradition and etiquette of protest, i.e., to demonstrate at public offices rather than private residences because a large section of our population no longer feels safe in their own homes. Disappearances and illegal detentions have become rampant in the name of fighting terrorism. It is as though a new wave of counter terrorism has been launched to terrorize the youth belonging to a community.