An Appeal For The Immediate Cancellation Of South Asian Countries’ Debts
Dear friends,Several organisations have come together to demand the immediate cancellation of South Asian countries’ debts. The recent pandemic has further exacerbated the dismal state of the people and the state capacity to deal with the...
Case Study On Garment Workers In Pakistan: Situation And Challenges Views From The Ground
Case Study on Garment Workers in Pakistan: Situation and ChallengesViews from the GroundThis bit of writing is based on documentation and monitoring of the situation of workers in the garment sector conducted by Labour Education ...
The Covid 19 Titanic Living The Apocalypse, Surfing The Second Wave
The Covid 19 Titanic:Living the apocalypse, Surfing the second wave Every morning I read the newspapers,The headlines, the small print, the numbers,The visuals of stretchers, ambulances, nurses, the dying, the dead...
Report Review- Migrant Poor In South Asia: A Review Of The SAAPE Poverty And Vulnerability Report, 2020
Report Review- Migrant Poor in South Asia: A Review of the SAAPE Poverty and Vulnerability Report, 2020By Swati Mohana KrishnanSouth Asian region has its unique and complex dimensions in all the major streams of migra...
South Asia Dogged With Poor Health Facilities, Erosion Of Democratic Rights: Report
South Asia dogged with poor health facilities, erosion of democratic rights: ReportSunday, December 06, 2020 By Our RepresentativeA recent report by multinational advocacy groups, Asian Forum for Hu...
The Crisis Of Poverty And Migration In The SAARC Region
The crisis of poverty and migration in the SAARC regionA review of ‘Migration in South Asia: Poverty and Vulnerability’ report published in one of the national magazines in India, Frontline, by T.K. RAJALAKSHMI.A rece...
Movement Of Peoples In South Asia Calls For Building Solidarities, Collective Action
Shared-destiny of migrants in the region has become all the more prominent during the COVID-19 lockdowns. The failure of state mechanisms to provide a modicum of income support, social security benefits and healthcare to migrants was gl...
Cancel The Debt
April 2020, Mustafa Talpur*Last week, the G20 group of rich countries decided to postpone the debt payment that is due to be paid to G20 governments up to the end of 2020 for developing countries.This will help Pakistan free u...
Inequality In South Asia
-By SAAPE SecretariatInequality on a historical march is even more rising on a world scale and South Asia is no exception. South Asia has be...
Nepal Needs Total Debt Cancellation To Face The COVID-19 Crisis
23 April by Praman AdhikariThe devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic is a serious threat which has brought our civilisation and economies at the brink of collapse. The current crisis in every secto...
Reflections On Indian Muslim Women’s Struggle Against Triple Talaq
Zakia Soman, Founder member, Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan & Core Committee Member of SAAPEWomen continue to remain second class beings everywhere and particularly in South Asia although there is a greater degree of awareness a...
Growth Of Informal And Precarious Work In Journalism: The Indian Scenario
– Babu P. Remesh, Professor and DEAN, School of Development Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), India During the first few decades since India’s Independence (i.e from 1950s till 1980s), journalists were one of the...
Pakistan After Osama
Pakistan after Osama is not the same. Relationship of different political trends and countries are changing. After the initial shock, the religious fundamentalist terrorist groups are back in business. There have been several suicidal attacks afte...
Do Human Rights Exist?
Do human rights exist in Sri Lanka? The UNDP organized a human rights day program at the Colombo University and Ms Sunila Abesekara, Executive Director of INFORM and Human Rights Defender, was invited as the keynote speaker. But the vice-chancello...
Women Continue Struggle To Rebuild Life & Livelihood
One year ago during the month of July/August, the floodwaters that ravaged southern parts of Pakistan have long receded. Though gone are the makeshift tent camps on roadsides but revival of normal life and livelihood still remain a challenge. Thou...
LDC Watch International Secretariat
Digital Advocacy & Communication OfficerJob posted on 30 Jun, 2022 Apply before 15 Jul, 2022LDC Watch International Secretariat Detailed Job description / requirements:...
Fight Inequality Campaign in South Asia: Tax the Rich!
Economic Inequality in South Asia Fast economic growth need not necessarily go hand in hand with growing inequality. Implementation of inequality-reducing ...