South Asia

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• Persecution of the LGBTIQ Community: Does Sri Lanka’s Police have Nothing Better to Do?
  11 November 2020, by siawi3

  Sri Lanka is one of the 72 countries that criminalise private, consensual, same-sex sexual activity among adults. Almost half of these countries are Commonwealth jurisdictions

• The Continuum of Violence: Sexual Violence and Body Politics in Bangladesh
  3 May 2021, by siawi3

  “The rapists are [like] beasts” is a phrase we often hear from authorities in response to incidences of sexual violence. It is a phrase which allows authorities to disassociate themselves from the structures that enable such violations in the first place. Above all, such disassociations also seek to invisibilise the ‘continuum of violence’ that is intrinsic to such acts of contemporary and historical trajectories of sexual violence.

• Teenage Afghan footballer fell to death from US plane at Kabul: federation
  20 August 2021, by siawi3

  Anwari was 17 years old. Memories of the Taliban’s brutal regime of the 1990s — which saw music and television banned, people stoned to death and women confined to their homes — have caused panic about what lies ahead, prompting many Afghans to try to flee.

• Pakistan: Remembering Ardeshir Cowasjee
  29 November 2021, by siawi3

  His criticism of the powerful was fearless and irreverent, and his readers loved it. Zulfiqar Bhutto was “megalomaniac”, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif “corrupt to the core” and Altaf Hussain “the Pir of Edgware”. And these are only a sample of the words he used to describe them. On camera, he would go even further in ridiculing those who ruled Pakistan. He offered a very different take on the rulers compared to the biographers and other commentators.

• Disinformation about India’s Muslim population fuels Islamophobia
  4 May, by siawi3

  One Facebook post sarcastically greeted news that India’s population had overtaken China’s by thanking Muslims “for producing 5-10 children” each.

• Bangladesh : des rĂ©fugiĂ©s rohingyas acceptent de partir sur une Ă®le
  21 octobre 2019, par siawi3

  Le gouvernement du Bangladesh y voit une solution pour rĂ©soudre le problème des camps de rĂ©fugiĂ©s surpeuplĂ©s oĂą vivent près d’un million de Rohingyas.

• India: CAA Protests Continue: 11 Deaths, 35 Arrests and Several Detentions
  21 December 2019, by siawi3

  Saturday brings fresh waves of protests not just to Delhi, but across India.

• Ties with Israel
  16 August 2020, by siawi3

  In the aftermath of the shock announcement of the establishment of relations between Israel and the UAE, there is feverish speculation about which Arab/Muslim country will be next to forge ties with the Zionist state. Said veteran PLO leader Dr Hanan Ashrawi: “May you never be sold out by your ‘friends’.

• USA-Afghanistan: US diplomats sent cable in mid-July warning of potential swift Taliban takeover: report
  20 August 2021, by siawi3

  About two dozen diplomats sent an internal cable last month warning US State Secretary...

• India: Hindu right-wing groups arrested for disrupting Muslim prayers
  1 November 2021, by siawi3

  Hindu groups have been pressuring authorities for weeks in the northern city of Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi to stop Muslims from offering Friday prayers in open spaces.

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