SACW - 23 May 2011 / Sri Lanka: Wrong Road to Peace ; Teachers Union action / Bangladesh: Women's Policy vs fundamentalists / Pakistan: Petition seeks recall of Mukhtar Mai judgement ; Peace in Balochistan / India: Forest rights, Saheli Fire, Mumbai

[Harsh Kapoor]

South Asia Citizens Wire - 23 May 2011 - No. 2714

Contents:

1. Pakistan: Full text of petition seeking review and recall the
[april 2011] Judgment on Mukhtai Mai
2. Sri Lanka University Teachers Struggle for Pay Hike - Trade Union
Action by the FUTA (Mahendran Thiruvarangan)
3. India - West Bengal: ’Comrades, we call this self-criticism’ (Ashok Mitra)
4. Bangladesh: Women development policy - Pushing the boundaries?
(Hameeda Hossain)
5. Resist fundamentalists and implement women’s development policy in
Bangladesh - reports and commentary
6. India: Saheli Fire - An update & appeal
7. India: Thousands Court Arrest to Demand Democracy in the Forests
8. Sri Lanka takes the wrong road to peace (Meenakshi Ganguly)
9. How Taliban recruits children for mass murder in Afghanistan (Jon Boone)
10. Pakistan: Peace for the Baloch (I A Rehman)
11. Book Review: The fabulous myths, tales and histories of Mumbai
(Rohit Chopra)

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Pakistan: Full text of petition seeking review and recall the Judgment
on Mukhtai Mai (April 2011)
Criminal Review Petition under Article 188 of the Constitution read
with Order XXVI, rule 1 of the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1980
against the Judgment of the Supreme Court passed on April 21, 2011 in
Criminal Appeal No.167/2005 arising out of Criminal Petition for Leave
to Appeal (...)
http://www.sacw.net/article2100.html

Sri Lanka University Teachers Struggle for Pay Hike - Trade Union
Action by the FUTA
The trade union action that the FUTA has embarked on coincides with
the crucial move made by the government to establish private
universities in Sri Lanka.
http://www.sacw.net/article2098.html

India - West Bengal: ’Comrades, we call this self-criticism’
The curiosum of a ‘red regime’ with a knack to get re-elected term
after term for over more than three decades within the ambit of a
full-fledged multi-party democracy has finally disappeared.
http://www.sacw.net/article2097.html

Bangladesh: Women development policy - Pushing the boundaries?
Sixteen years after Bangladesh endorsed the Beijing Plan of Action
(1995) for gender equality at the UN Conference for Women, the Cabinet
has finally okayed a National Policy for Women’s Development in 2011.
Its earlier incarnation formulated in 1997, in consultation with
women’s groups, and (...)
http://www.sacw.net/article2093.html

Resist fundamentalist opposition and implement women’s development
policy in Bangladesh - reports and commentary
Bangladesh govt must come clean and implement women’s development
policy and not surrender to demands of the religious fundamentalist
forces.
http://www.sacw.net/article2091.html

India: Saheli Fire - An update & appeal to help us rebuild our office
On 13th May 2011, a nasty fire in the Defence Colony Flyover Market in
Delhi gutted about 58 shops and along with that, our Saheli office
with 30 years of our belongings, files, records, documents,
publications, etc. The devastation has been incredible, but if
anything could give us the (...)
http://www.sacw.net/article2090.html

India: Thousands Court Arrest to Demand Democracy in the Forests
On 20 May 2011, 3,000 adivasis and forest dwellers from across the
India gathered at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, to protest against the
blatant and criminal resource grab of the Central and State
governments.
http://www.sacw.net/article2088.html

Sri Lanka takes the wrong road to peace - Meenakshi Ganguly
Sri Lanka has now called upon its “friends” to shield it from an
international investigation into alleged human rights violations. The
international community largely stood by while the bloodbath took
place and as the Sri Lankan government refused to investigate the war
crimes allegations.
http://www.sacw.net/article2087.html

How Taliban recruits children for mass murder in Afghanistan
Young Afghans being coerced into joining jihad with threats of
violence and promises of martyrdom
http://www.sacw.net/article2084.html

Peace for the Baloch (I A Rehman)
Peace in Balochistan is possible, only if an end to violence is
accompanied by justice in terms of a change in the status quo by
establishing fair power relationships between the civil and military
authorities, the centre and the province, and the elite and ordinary
(...)
http://www.sacw.net/article2082.html

Book Review: The fabulous myths, tales and histories of Mumbai
Gyan Prakash’s Mumbai Fables is a thing of beauty. Trawling the
archives as flâneur and walking the city’s past as historian, Prakash
reads the city as palimpsest. He pays homage to the seductive power of
myths about Mumbai
http://www.sacw.net/article2094.html

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