Back in 1984, when Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy and I were examining the history textbooks of Pakistan, it was possible for us to see the impact of the changes in curriculum being brought about by Ziaul Haq on the young minds.
Back in 1984, when Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy and I were examining the history textbooks of Pakistan, it was possible for us to see the impact of the changes in curriculum being brought about by Ziaul Haq on the young minds.
How can a democratic country allow its army to dictate terms and make political statements on Armed Forces Special Powers Act revocation or troops withdrawal? It is only in a military dictatorship that the army is above all and above the board. India happens to be a constitutional democracy.
Instead of seeing Salman Taseer’s murder as an unprecedented act commanding utter shock and horror, it must be placed on a continuum of rising intolerance and vigilantism that has been given official protection
The debates around securing the right to health for all in India are at a complex and sensitive stage. In India, we have gross inequity in health-care delivery. The huge inequity is evident, on the one hand, in flourishing international medical tourism, and high-technology biomedical interventions done cheaply, and, on the other, minimum levels of health care being unavailable to those unable to pay.
Draft articles on citizenship in Nepal’s proposed new constitution risk making many Nepali children stateless, Human Rights Watch said today. Some of the proposed citizenship provisions are sharply at odds with Nepal’s obligations under international law as well as the explicit commitment in the draft constitution itself to prevent statelessness, Human Rights Watch said.
The current draft, as modified by the High Level Task Force created to review the draft constitutional provisions in November 2010, specifies that a child would automatically be granted Nepali citizenship only if both parents prove they are Nepali citizens. Human Rights Watch urges the Constituent Assembly to amend the draft to allow a child born to either a Nepali mother or a Nepali father to be able to claim citizenship by descent.
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