South Asia Citizens Web

Just when the generations coming before began to reconcile to a different national and world order based on dominance devoid of humanism, young people began to mobilise in the most unique and unusual ways. First came the climate change movement, headed by Greta Thunberg, then the Me Too movement, the Hong Kong democracy movement, the movement in India against the Citizenship Act and now Black Lives Matter. All these movements, some accompanied by violence, still hint at a new tomorrow where universal values and the struggle for freedom, equality, dignity and respect will again be normative and acceptable

A PhD thesis from the LSE - May 2015 on India China Relations 1949-62

GENEVA (16 June 2020) – The agreement by the new coalition Government of Israel to annex significant parts of the occupied Palestinian West Bank after 1 July would violate a cornerstone principle of international law and must be meaningfully opposed by the international community, UN experts said today. Forty-seven of the independent Special Procedures mandates appointed by the Human Rights Council issued the following statement:

Eight reports from diverse sources on the COVID19 lockdown impact on labour, the issues of joblessness, social distress and exodus that it triggered.

. . . almost universal, actions by all employers around the country reveal the precarious, informal, insecure and vulnerable nature of employment for millions of these workers. In a vast majority of cases, there is no formal contract; even when it exists, it is with some labour contractor or service provider (like housekeeping & security services).