South Asia Citizens Web

• Mapping Taliban Violence Targeting Civilians in Afghanistan - A Joint ACLED and APW Report | 11 August 2023

  12 August 2023
  Introduction
  On 17 August 2021, two days after the fall of Kabul, the Taliban held a press conference promising amnesty for former government officials, respect for women’s rights, and freedom of the press.1 Nearly two years later, it is clear that the Taliban has upheld none of these promises, instead conducting a violent campaign of repression. Since the takeover, the Taliban has targeted former government and security officials, carried out collective punishments in areas where  (...)
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  India: Multiple hate killings on train by RPF constable Chetan Singh! - Statement by PUCL Maharashtra (Aug 7, 2023)

  10 August 2023

  PUCL Maharashtra is shocked by the ghastly hate killings by RPF constable Chetan Singh of his superior officer RPF Assistant Sub-Inspector Tika Ram Meena and three Muslim passengers Abdul Qadir bhai Mohammed Hussain Bhanpurwala, Asgar Abbas Ali and Sayed Saifullah, onboard the Jaipur-Mumbai Central Express on July 31, 2023. Increasing hate propaganda is hurtling the Indian society down such a dangerous path, where even a police officer from Railway Protection Force (RPF) is influenced enough by communal hate to carry out killings of Muslim men, identifying them by clothes and beards, inside a train.

• Poster with Demands of India March for Science - Aug 12, 2023, New Delhi

  9 August 2023

  Demands of India March for Science in Delhi on Aug 12, 2023

• 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.

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