AITUC deplores the latest order from the Ministry of Home Affairs dated 3rd May stating that the government will facilitate the movement only of those stranded workers who had gone to work or from workplace to hometown just before lockdown but could not return to their native places/workplaces on account of restrictions placed on movement of persons and vehicles as part of lockdown measures.
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India: Place no restrictions on movement of migrant workers - AITUC demands withdrawal of Home Ministry order of 3rd May 2020
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Video: Lawyers Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju on the Marriage Project of the LGBT Indians
6 May 2020Video recording of Lawyers Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju speaking on The Marriage Project of the LGBT at the Oxford Union in the aftermath of Navtej Singh Johar & Ors. v. Union of India thr. Secretary Ministry of Law and Justice is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of India in 2018 that decriminalised all consensual sex among adults, including homosexual sex
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India Covid 19 Crisis & Lockdown: 42 Unions and NGOs Demand Safe Passage For Migrant Labourers Returning to West Bengal
5 May 2020Letter from Right to Food and Work campaign to the State official in West Bengal seeking safe return of migrant workers.
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Text of Appeals by Daniel Pearl’s Parents in the Supreme Court of Pakistan Against April 2, 2020 Ruling by Sindh High Court that would set free men sentenced for Pearl’s murder in Karachi
4 May 2020Text of Appeals by Daniel Pearl’s Parents in the Supreme Court of Pakistan Court Against April 2, 2020 Ruling by Sindh High Court that overturns the conviction & sentencing for Pearl’s kidnapping and murder in Karachi
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Video: Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism
4 May 2020In this documentary, Zuboff takes the lid off Google and Facebook and reveals a merciless form of capitalism in which no natural resources, but the citizen itself, serves as a raw material. How can citizens regain control of their data?
