South Asia Citizens Web

A compilation on private corporate lobbying, in the form of intensive briefings and presentations to ministers and senior civil servants and the expanding influence of private corporations in the Government of India

The only way to reverse the degradation of Sri Lanka’s economy and polity is to acknowledge that the war is over and take the appropriate measures: release all the Vanni IDPs immediately, slash military spending, dismantle the paramilitaries, redeploy demobilised soldiers to civilian reconstruction tasks, replace military and ex-military administrators with civilian ones, dismantle the HSZs, resettle all displaced civilians including those displaced by HSZs, repeal the PTA and Emergency Regulations, restore democratic rights, especially to freedom of expression, and release J.S. Tissainayagam and others incarcerated for exercising this right.

Revolutionary, humanist, and scientist, Faheem Hussain embodied the political and social ferment of the late 1960’s.

In a pattern which has become increasingly familiar in many parts of India, but particularly in Gujarat, once again in the run-up to the assembly by elections in Gujarat, a number of Muslim youth were picked up by police officials in plain clothes, illegally detained and severely tortured, before they were sent to judicial custody.

Women in Pakistan continue to be victims of this senseless violence. It is ultimately the responsibility of the Pakistani government to protect women and to prosecute those who commit these horrible atrocities. Instead, perpetrators of violence against women are provided with impunity by Pakistan’s society, judicial system and the government.