South Asia Citizens Web

Is it surprising that every bit of heartbreaking news from the Kashmir Valley and northeast India is followed by an outcry against the uniformed forces in those regions, and by extension, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act?

Jamia Teachers Solidarity Group response to the National Human Right’s Commission’s clean chit to the Delhi Police on Batla House encounter

The judgment of the Delhi high court is a well considered one. It has held that the offence dealt with by Section 377 is violative of equality as enshrined in the Indian Constitution, particularly Article 15.

A documentary film by the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum on the plight of fishermen who are detained regularly (and held like prisoners of war) by the coast guards of governments of India and Pakistan. Despite long years of struggle by trade unions like Fisher Folk Forum and by human rights groups fishermen of the two countries continue to get arrested in the name of national security and tensions between the two neigbouring countries. This film in urdu was made some time in mid 2003 and the issues it raises remain important to this date.

In order to prevent BJP from indulging in flood gate of accusations, conjecture, it will be in the fitness of things if the government of India was to immediately place the Liberhan commission report in the Parliament