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) ------------- 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 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ South Asia Citizens Wire Buzz for secularism, on the dangers of fundamentalism(s), on matters of peace and democratisation in South Asia. An offshoot of South Asia Citizens Web: www.sacw.net/ DISCLAIMER: Opinions expressed in materials carried in the posts do not necessarily reflect the views of SACW compilers. _______________________________________________ SACW mailing list SACW@insaf.net http://insaf.net/mailman/listinfo/sacw_insaf.net