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  • Video: Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future - Pervez Hoodbhoy in conversation with Shaheryar Azhar 1 of 16 episodes

    9 August 2023

    Pervez Hoodbhoy in conversation with Shaheryar Azhar over Pakistan

  • Pakistan: Press Statement announcing Minority Rights March, Karachi, Aug 11, 2023

    8 August 2023

    With unity and purpose, we have come together as a collective to initiate the first Minority Rights March. People who don’t belong to the majority religion are persecuted in Pakistan every day. We see increasing attacks of discrimination and violence against Christian and Hindu communities, we see young and underage girls from these faiths being forcibly converted and married - against their will. While people of the minority faiths face everyday violence and discrimination and the large looming threat of the misuse of the blasphemy law causes fear and insecurity for young and old.

  • India: EGI Statement on Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023

    6 August 2023

    The Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned with some of the draconian provisions in the Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023, which was introduced in the Rajya Sabha by the Hon’ble Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Mr. Anurag Thakur, and is meant to replace the existing Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 (PRB).

  • India: Five Years Without an Elected Administration: August 2022 – July 2023 report of The Forum for Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir

    4 August 2023

    In an additional counter-affidavit filed before the Supreme Court in July 2023 against petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Presidential Orders of August 5, 2019 (reading down Article 370 of the Indian Constitution), as well as the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act of August 9, 2019, the union Ministry of Home Affairs claimed that that the changes wrought by the two actions had ‘brought unprecedented development, progress, security and stability to the region.’1 The facts, however, suggest otherwise. In its three annual and two thematic reports, the Forum has documented over three dozen economic, political and social rights that have been violated between August 2019 and July 2022, including economic losses of over Rs. 50,000 crores at a conservative estimate, vitiation of land and domicile rights, marginalisation and even purges of local personnel in the civil and police services, questionable arrests under draconian legislation, communication bans, media intimidation, and routinised curbs on the freedom of expression and movement. 2 Equally glaring, the right to representation has been denied for five years, as of June 2023. This report on the state of human rights in Jammu and Kashmir between August 2022-July 2023 finds that while there has been improvement on some parameters, human rights violations continue on most. Its findings are as follows:

  • India: CPI(M) Condemns Communal Violence in Haryana / CPI Condemns Killings of Passengers, Haryana Riots (Aug 2, 2023) / AIKS condemns Communal Violence in Haryana (Aug 3, 2023)

    3 August 2023

    The Party also appeals to all Indians that they should not fall prey to politics of hatred, fear and violence which is the main plank of BJP-RSS politics unleashed in the background of ensuing elections.

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