South Asia Citizens Web

Human Rights Watch has written to the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, asking her to repeal Article 47A of the country’s constitution to ensure a fair trial of the people accused of committing international crimes during the 1971 independence war of Bangladesh.

On 20 May 2011, 3,000 adivasis and forest dwellers from across the India gathered at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, to protest against the blatant and criminal resource grab of the Central and State governments. Braving intense heat and traveling for days on end packed in trains, our people came to Delhi to condemn the blatant criminal looting of our resources by these governments.

Young Afghans being coerced into joining jihad with threats of violence and promises of martyrdom

For an estimated 8,000 women in the UK every year, their wedding isn’t the happiest day of their lives – quite the opposite. These women, usually from Indian and Pakistani families, are forced into marriages to ensure that the groom ticks the cultural, religious and socioeconomic boxes of the parents’ choosing. Those who dare to rebel might find themselves the victims of an "honour killing" (could there be a bigger misnomer for such a horrific crime?).

Peace in Balochistan is meaningful, even possible, only if an end to violence is accompanied by justice in terms of a change in the status quo by establishing fair power relationships between the civil and military authorities, the centre and the province, and the elite and ordinary people.