South Asia

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• ‘I’m alive but not living’: Survivors of Bangladesh’s rape crisis
  8 December 2020, by siawi3

  In 2018, 732 rape cases were reported in the country, according to the Bangladeshi human rights group, Ain o Salish Kendra. The cases almost doubled to 1,413 in 2019. Now with almost 1,000 cases reported so far this year, Bangladesh is seeing more than four rape cases per day on average.
  These numbers are thought to be just the tip of the iceberg. With four reported rapes a day and many more unreported, survivors and activists say anyone could be next.

• Afghanistan: ‘Yankee, go home’
  21 August 2021, by siawi3

  In a breakdown provided by Taliban members of revenues amassed by its financial wizard Mullah Yaqoob, “the militant group during the last financial year [2020] earned some $464m from mining, $416m from drugs, $240m from foreign countries and individuals, another $240m from exports, $160m from taxes, and $80m from real estate�. That amounts to $1.6bn, hardly enough to buy a state, but enough to reassure the World Bank that the new Afghan government has the requisite broad-based expertise to manage a diversified economy.

• India: Psychological Effects of the Caste System
  12 June 2021, by siawi3

  Along with social and economic exploitation, caste is responsible for psychological violence too.

• En Inde, les médecins protestent contre Baba Ramdev, qui déclare que le yoga vaincra le coronavirus
  9 July 2021, by siawi3

  Baba Ramdev, gourou de 55 ans, a déclaré à plusieurs reprises que le yoga et la médecine traditionnelle étaient plus efficaces que les vaccins. Le télévangéliste du yoga dispose d’un important réseau de disciples. Sa chaîne YouTube est forte de 7,8 millions d’abonnés.

• Afghanistan : 3^e jour de combats autour d’Hérat, la grande ville de l’Ouest partagez
  1er août 2021, par siawi3

  Des milliers d’habitants ont fui ces dernières semaines les zones alentour, touchées par les affrontements, pour se réfugier en ville.

• Des Afghans brandissent le drapeau national dans les rues, en geste de défi aux talibans
  20 août 2021, par siawi3

  Ce jeudi, jour du 102^e anniversaire de l’indépendance de leur pays, des Afghans sont descendus dans les rues avec des drapeaux nationaux.

• Afghanes ou Algériennes : un seul combat !
  20 septembre 2021, par siawi3

  Comment ne pas être interpellée par la similitude de ces politiques de « réconciliation nationale » qui hypothèquent l’évolution des droits des femmes ? En un tournemain, les Taliban ont été blanchis, mieux encore réhabilités puis hissés au statut de partenaire crédible et d’interlocuteur incontournable dans le processus de normalisation de la vie politique en Afghanistan.

• On illiberalism in Modi’s India: The rising tide of Hindu majoritarianism
  1 July 2022, by siawi3

  A year before he ascended to the prime ministership of India in 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru proclaimed that his nation was ‘a cultural unity amidst diversity, a bundle of contradictions held together by strong but invisible threads’. Yet, in the seventy-five years since India’s independence, secularist tolerance of religious and cultural difference has been eroded by a rising tide of Hindu majoritarianism.

• India: 20 YEARS AFTER HORRIFIC GANG-RAPE AND MASS MURDERS IN GUJARAT, ABOUT 6000 CITIZENS SPEAK OUT IN SUPPORT OF BILKIS BANO’S CONTINUING STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE!
  23 August 2022, by siawi3

  The statement urged the Supreme Court to undo this grave miscarriage of justice. The remission of sentences for the 11 convicted of gang-rape and mass murder will have a chilling effect on every rape victim who is told to ‘trust the system’, ‘seek justice’, ‘have faith’.

• Floods in Pakistan: Where is the ‘International Community’ for the imperialized zones of the world-system?
  21 December 2022, by siawi3

  Pakistan has contributed a pittance to the global emissions that drive climate change, and it is not ‘just’ for the country’s long suffering people to be left isolated. More than 35 million Pakistanis were deprived of their homes, livelihoods and dignity by this summer’s unprecedented monsoon-related floods

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