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A number of concerned women’s groups and networks join other organisations and individuals who have condemned the recent grenade attack on the residence of Mr. J.C Weliamuna the well known and respected human rights lawyer.
Women’s organisations have in the past, drawn the attention of the Minister of Women’s Empowerment and Child Development and the National Committee on Women to acts of violence against women and children committed with impunity by armed persons in various parts of the (…)

Text of controversial report of the commission of inquiry by Justice Nanavati and Justice Mehta on the sabarmati express train burning in Godhra.

From: Rashida Dohad Date: Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:27 PM
Dear friends:
In 2007-08, Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation and its local community partners in the earthquake-affected areas of Hazara conducted research on the government’s rehabilitation policies and performance. The findings of the research provide evidence showing:
1. The pace of rehabilitation is unacceptably slow. There is little progress against the government’s planned targets for rehabilitation which is (…)

The News on sunday, 5 October 2008
Displacement and its related matters aside, the real issue remains the rape of the girls, and the fact that they are not getting justice. If they and their families were to agree to a ’compromise’, their troubles would be over in a flash
"The most difficult thing is to ask for something," said Tasleem, sudden tears in her eyes overshadowing her determined cheerfulness.
On Jan 10, 2007, local thugs gang raped Tasleem’s sister-in-law Kainat Soomro, then (…)

The real danger of the Indo-US nuclear deal is that it formally recognises India as a legal nuclear weapons state and provides the platform for a closer integration of the Indian state and the economy with the global economy and power structure. This simple truth is evident to almost all leftists outside India who have pitched their opposition to the deal on issues of non-proliferation and denuclearisation. By opposing this nuclear deal on the grounds of national interest, the Left in India (…)