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The Naga People Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) is deeply shocked and saddened by the sudden death of Ram Narayan Kumar

Sialkot district in Pakistan is a hub of industrial clusters producing sports goods, leather goods and surgical instruments for local and foreign markets. Linked to an increasingly sophisticated global finance and marketing system, the Sialkot labour-intensive business model and production processes are still largely family-owned, cottage-based and informal, relying on a semi-literate, semi-skilled workforce operating in precarious conditions under weak state regulatory mechanisms.
Sialkot industrialists signed the Atlanta Agreement in 1997 to rid the industry of child labour. The other crucial terms and conditions—denial of free association and collective bargaining, low wages, lack of social protection and occupational health and safety—prevalent in the industry were overlooked by all stakeholders (local industrialists, state bodies, international organizations including the ILO, the civil society and the academicians who researched the issue).

This is My Truth, June 28, 2009
Did anybody see a rainbow today on Bangalore sky? I did as we drove back from Town Hall, the place where the Bangalore Queer Pride Parade concluded and I thought how very symbolic.
Queer people in Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai and Bhubaneswar today celebrated their ‘being’ under a rainbow colored flag. Gays, lesbians, kothis, hijras, intersexs, transsexuals and straight people walked the streets in large numbers amidst busy traffic dancing, laughing giggling, (…)

Translation of the Hindi article published in the June 2009 issue of FILHAAL, a radical Hindi fortnightly published from Patna.
After the resignation of the Prime Minister, Mr Pushp Kamal Dahal “ Prachand” the political parties once again have created the situation which reminds of the days of the 12-point agreement which took place in November 2005. The 12 point understanding was reached at that time between the CPN-Maoists (which was underground and carrying out peoples’ war) and seven (…)

an open letter to the Ministry of Minority Affairs, highlighting some of the key concerns with the draft bill and demanding a wider public debate, before it is introduced in Parliament.