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Inter Press Service
New Delhi, Jan 16 (IPS) - Exasperated by what it regards as "a continuing pattern of evasiveness and denial in Pakistan’s response to the terrorist attack on Mumbai", India seems to be fashioning a two-pronged approach towards Islamabad to get it to act firmly against terrorist networks based on its soil.
If one element in this approach is to downgrade relations with Pakistan and remind it that the military option is not entirely off the table, the second element is (…)

January 19, 2009
A letter from a group of concerned persons to the United Nations Secretary General forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
SRI LANKA: SOS - Agonising Cry of the People of Wanni
13 January 2009.
His Excellency Ban Ki Moon The secretary General, United Nations
Your Excellency,
The Agonising Cry of the People of Wanni, Sri-Lanka
We the Roman Catholic Priests and Religious serving the people in Wanni, the theatre of on-going vicious battles, make the (…)

Mail Today
Over 18 months after his incarceration, doctor and activist Binayak Sen is still languishing in jail without any evidence against him. Here’s why he is feared by the government.
BINAYAK SEN was a doctor and human rights activist who had worked many years among the tribals of Chhattisgarh’s tribal districts. His work among the tribals had made him a hero, a man who did what the government did not. To the government, he was the villain who backed the Maoists. He had to be (…)

“The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law. It allocates wealth and poverty in such complicated and indirect ways as to leave the victim bewildered.” Howard Zinn
Dedicated to the memory of Tapasi Malik,, Dula Mandal, Lakhiram Tuddu, Satyabhama ........... Whose names we know, And the hundreds of adivasis of Bastar Whose names will remain unknown till we claim them.
Why this essay?
I (…)

Arson attacks and killings have shut down girls’ schools and brought a thriving entertainment industry to its knees in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP)