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November 2008 - Minority Concern of Pakistan (32° Issue). Click here to download the report. Click here for further information. 19-23 November - EU-India Workshop on 'Cultures of Governance, Democracy and Conflict Resolution', New Delhi and Simla (India). Further information to be uploaded soon! 17 November 2008 - LEAD: Tibetan exiles begin meeting to discuss future course (Breitbar.com): DHARAMSALA, India. A special meeting of Tibetan exiles began Monday to discuss the future course of action on Tibet…Click here to read more. 15 November 2008 - According to analysts lack of democracy in political parties (Lankawin): Sri Lanka. According to a research conducted into the level of democracy within political parties have revealed that they lack a adequate level of democracy... Click here to read more. 6 November 2008 - How Muslims made Europe (by The New York Review of Books, Vol. 55, No.17): The conception of the Mediterranean as the meeting of three continents goes back to classical Greece. But it took a further intellectual leap to conceive of their inhabitants as a collectivity... Click here to read more. 5 November 2008 - Leaders must resist ethnic polarization (UPI Asia.com): Colombo, Sri Lanka. […] the president's popularity is accompanied by considerable alienation of the Tamil ethnic minority and other ethnic minority groups. There are reasons for this growing ethnic polarization... Click here to read more. 4 November 2008 - Burma Army Attacking Christian Karen Villagers; Several (BosNewsLife): Hundreds of villagers of Burma's, predominantly Christian, Karen minority have been displaced and several killed… Click here to read more. 4 November 2008 - India directly cannot interfere in military activities (LankaWin): Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stated, Indian has more concern towards the Sri Lankan Tamils, but without disturbing its sovereignty, problems should be settled… Click here to read more. 3 November 2008 - India's election season: bad for minorities (Open Democracy): The democratic process can be a pretext for India's politicians to foment ethnic sentiments for electoral gain… Click here to read more. 29 October 2008 – An exclusive interview with Habib Nabgan about the arrest and deportation of his family from Syria to Iran (Iranian Minorities Human Right Organisation, Defending Minorities - IMHRO). Click here to read more. 29 October 2008 - The end of '30 years of repression' (BBC): The election victory of Mohamed Nasheed, a former political prisoner, as president of the Maldives in the country's first democratic presidential election is a watershed... Click here to read more. 27 October 2008 - Dalai Lama 'loses hope' for Tibet (BBC) - This weekend the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, told his followers he had lost hope of reaching agreement with China about the future of his homeland… Click here to read more. 16 October 2008 - Reforming the Judiciary in Pakistan (ICG Asia Report No. 160): Pakistan's return to civilian government after eight years of military rule and the sidelining of the military's religious allies in the February 2008 elections offer an opportunity to restore the rule of law... Click here to read more. 13 october 2008 - Hinduism vs. Christianity in India: The family of Solomon Digal was summoned by neighbors to what serves as a public square in front of the village tea shop. They were ordered to get on their knees... Click here to read more. 29 September 2008 - EU-India Summit in Marseille (France). Click here for more information. 25 September 2008 - OSCE hosts Europe's largest human rights and democracy conference in Warsaw: More than 1,000 government representatives, experts and human rights defenders are set to meet in Warsaw... Click here to read more. 24 September 2008 - Is English law related to Muslim law? (BBC): In London's historic "Inns of Court", barristers practise law in the shadow of the distinctive medieval Temple Church. But does English law really owe a debt to Muslim law?… Click here to read more. 14 September 2008 - Revealed: UK's first official sharia courts (Times Online): ISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases… Click here to read more. 1 August 2008 - Published the SOUTH ASIA HUMAN RIGHTS INDEX - 2008. Click here to download the full report. To see OLD NEWS click here!
USEFUL LINKS: Delegation of the European Commission to India, Bhutan and Nepal http://www.delind.ec.europa.eu/ The EU and South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC), http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/saarc/index_en.htm South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC) http://www.hrdc.net/sahrdc/about.htm Asian Human Rughts Commission, http://www.ahrchk.net/index.php Amnesty International in India http://www.amnesty.org.in/ South Asian news in German http://www.suedasien.info/ South Asia Network http://www.southasia.net/ BBC news on South Asia http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/default.stm Reuters India on South Asia http://in.reuters.com/news/southAsia
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