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The International Metalworkers’ Federation is writing to Foxconn and Nokia global management demanding they intervene and ensure workers’ rights are respected at the Foxconn plant located in the Nokia Special Economic Zone in Chennai, India.

Mirza Ghalib had pondered the merger of heaven and hell to create a bit more room for a leisurely walk.

A separate Persian verse, ascribed to Kashmir’s beauty sees it as paradise on earth, which is how most Kashmiris would want to celebrate their homeland. If we merge the two couplets there’s a fair chance it would read like Indian and Pakistan foreign policies on Kashmir.

[in Bangladesh] restoration of secularism as a fundamental policy of the state would not entail any ban on religion-based party, especially those named after Islam. Why then, one might ask, the restoration of secularism as a fundamental policy of the state? Just for the sake of it? Secularism is about separation of religion and politics, about absence of religion in the worldly affairs of the state. But the government has chosen to turn the concept on its head, just to appease the religion-based parties that they hobnob with, and even pamper, especially in times of elections.

The Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) is going to have its Tenth Anniversary National Convention in NewDelhi from the 9 - 12 December 2010.

Those willing to join may write to cndpindia@gmail.com

We, the undersigned human rights NGOs, human rights defenders, and women human rights defenders, celebrate Ms. Irom Chanu Sharmila’s unwavering courage for standing as a voice for thousands of voiceless people demanding to repeal the Armed Forced Special Powers Act of 1958 (AFSPA). Her 10-year fasting symbolizes the journey of the people of Manipur and other areas of Northeast India for genuine peace and freedom from violence. —A statement by Forum Asia