South Asia

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• Call for Support! Solidarity campaign : Justice for Suja Jones and Child X
  21 March 2013, by siawi

  we call on women and human rights organisations to join us and widely support our solidarity campaign for justice for Suja Jones and Child X. We request all to endorse and sign our call for solidarity at

• UK: ’Honour your daughters’, says Malala’s father
  26 March 2013, by siawi3

  "With my daughter I did one thing, only one thing: I honoured her as an individual. I respected her as a person.”

• Pakistan: Civil society groups condemn target killing of Parveen Rehman, calls for urgent action by the state to protect citizens
  24 March 2013, by siawi3

  Ms. Rehman was a relentless social activist who sought to empower the unattended-by-the state community through education, skills-development and provision for microfinance facilities. It was this work of hers that was targeted by the powerful mafias as a threat to their existence.

• India: Sahmat Statement in support of Citizens for Justice and Peace
  13 April 2013, by siawi3

  Anti-communalist civil society organizations express solidarity, in wake of renewed media and legal attacks against Teesta Setelvad, the Indian passionaria who, virtually alone, conducted the struggle for justice of the Gujarat riots victims.

• Pakistan: Woman And Social Networks—Hostility On The Internet
  8 April 2013, by siawi3

  Women in Pakistan are being harassed and are encountering hostility via social networks on the Internet. At the same time, many women’s rights activists see the web as a new way to further their work.

• India: Solidarity Vigil for Bangladesh’s Shahbagh Movement held in Delhi - report and memo
  10 April 2013, by siawi3

  During the addresses most speakers at the vigil reiterated that despite the need to critically engage with certain demands like that of Death penalty emanating from the Shahbagh Movement, it is imperative that the secular-democratic and left forces in India stand in solidarity with Shahbagh Movement because the demand that secular principles and ethos alone should guide and govern all politics is not just a demand for Bangladesh but is universal in nature.
  “We sincerely feel that in an atmosphere of growing religiosity and faith based practices the world over, where one witnesses increasing intrusion of faith and religion in matters of governance as well as societal functioning, the Shahbagh movement offers the rest of humanity not only a beacon of hope but a promise that things can be changed for the better.”

• Bangladesh: 1971 - Re-emerging silences
  12 April 2013, by siawi3

  The courage of confrontation must come from the pain itself. In our telling and retelling of stories of the war how far have we given space to this pain? How can you give space to this pain.. in what language? In words, in gestures, in colours? The time has come perhaps to find the appropriate symbols.

• India: 1993 Bombay riots: Two decades on, the inconvenient truth
  13 April 2013, by siawi3

  The less privileged survivors of the 1993 Mumbai riots should not be deprived of justice on the grounds that old wounds will be reopened.

  It is 20 years since two cataclysmic events shook Bombay now Mumbai. If there is recollection now of the first — the communal carnage spread over two months and which killed over 900 people — it is called the reopening old wounds. On the other hand, if you speak about the second, the serial blasts of March 12, 1993, it’s about terror coming home to the city and claiming innocent lives. The survivors of the riots continue to despair. They can’t even get cases registered against culprits if they happen to be policemen. The Special Investigation Team, formed soon after the riots, closed more cases than it reopened. They have to approach the High Court for registering first information reports or demanding Central Bureau of Investigation inquiries. They have no choice but to reopen old wounds.

• Bangladesh: 13 from Pakistan honoured
  10 April 2013, by siawi3

  Bangladesh Confers Friends of Liberation War Honour to 13 Pakistanis.
  According to the Bangladesh government, these Pakistani nationals raised their voice for the freedom of Bangladesh against all the odds in their home country, which attacked unarmed Bangladeshis on the night of March 25, 1971.
  Some of them were sacked from their jobs, imprisoned and tortured for helping Bangladesh.

• Bangladesh: we stand with Bangladeshi bloggers and activists!
  12 April 2013, by siawi3

  Islamists continue to threaten prominent bloggers and have called for the “execution of 84 atheist bloggers for insulting religion”. Rather than defend freedom of expression and protect freethinkers, the Bangladeshi government has arrested several bloggers, promised to pursue others, and shut down websites and blogs. Freedom of expression, including to criticise Islam and Islamism as well as to blaspheme, is a basic right.

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