RLS in South Asia
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International Dialogue |
Human Rights and the Sports Industry
While the FIFA World Cup 2022 has ended, the Kafala system hasn't. The woes of the thousands of migrant workers living and working in Qatar remain unaddressed. We deconstruct some issues that will continue to plague workers living in the Gulf country unless something drastically changes.
Focus on the Global South, India, Social-Ecological Transformation |
Outcomes of the Twelfth Ministerial Conference 2022 of the World Trade Organization: Implications for India’s Agriculture and Food Security
This report highlights expectations from MC12, details the actual outcomes and their implications, and lays out a path for future action, one that focuses on the political struggle for peasant unity.
Focus on the Global South, India, Social-Ecological Transformation |
Agrarian Crisis: Women's Role in Revolutionary Transformation
This short report describes the fragile livelihood equilibrium of a major section of men and women, who constitute the agrarian workforce in India.
Read more … Agrarian Crisis: Women's Role in Revolutionary Transformation
Focus on the Global South, India, Social-Ecological Transformation |
Wind down the WTO Agreement on Agriculture In Defence of Food Sovereignty
In this dossier, we bring together a series of articles that will inform the reader about agriculture and food policy in India and the Agreement on Agriculture’s bias towards agribusiness driven agriculture.
Read more … Wind down the WTO Agreement on Agriculture In Defence of Food Sovereignty
Centre for Education and Communication, India, Social Justice |
Working Lives during the Pandemic
The objective of this report is to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on informal workers, the myriad ways labour responds to the pandemic, and to explore appropriate labour strategies for mitigation of the problems faced by the vast majority of labouring people in India.
Critical Action Centre In Movement, India, International Dialogue |
Handbook on Free Trade and Investment Agreements
This handbook maps India’s free trade and investment agreements and flags concerns with regard to their implications in various sectors, attempting to bring to fore how these agreements, in the absence of multilateral agreements, often mimic the unequal power equations that exist in the geopolitical sphere.
Read more … Handbook on Free Trade and Investment Agreements
Social-Ecological Transformation |
Crash Barriers for Post-COVID-19 Food and Agricultural Systems
Incredible examples of solidarity across the urban and rural divide were lived during the COVID-19 pandemic that showed how grassroots and solidarity actions can ensure access to nutritious food for millions of people.
Read more … Crash Barriers for Post-COVID-19 Food and Agricultural Systems
Centre for Education and Communication, India, Social Justice |
Work Relations and the Pandemic: An Anthology
Knowledge about mass grave sites was scattered across multiple sources, making it difficult to gain a comprehensive understanding of this issue. This report consolidates the available information on each site.
Social-Ecological Transformation |
Can Hunger be Defeated? Advancing Food Security in South Asia
This publication by Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung combines ground reports as well as political analysis on Social Protection, Food Security and Food Sovereignty. We hope that putting together this compilation will be a step towards placing voices from the ground and policy analysis connected with Food Security and Food Sovereignty, at the same table.
Read more … Can Hunger be Defeated? Advancing Food Security in South Asia
International Dialogue |
Policy Paper: Democracy and Discontent
This paper analyses the current political situation in India with a view to the elections in spring 2019.
International Dialogue |
Policy Paper: China´s Belt and Road Initiative
This paper analyses the new Chinese global growth and development strategy, the so-called "New Silk Route".
International Dialogue |
Policy Paper: Leftizing the Left
This paper analyses the unification of the left parties in Nepal.
Social Justice, South Asian University |
Archiving Women’s Resistance
This working paper series from South Asian University aims to understand women's questions in left politics by carving and linking them in local resistance, and their interaction and contribution to larger movements geared towards socio-political transformation.
International Dialogue, South Asian University |
Organizing Against Capital
This edited volume by South Asian University brings fresh insights into ongoing debates of anti-capitalist movements and facilitates understanding on the working and politics of capital and labour located within it.
Focus on the Global South, India, Social-Ecological Transformation |
Indian Agricultural Markets
This report is an output of a symposium by Focus on the Gobal South on "Agricultural Markets in India: Policies, Challenges and Alternatives" to take stock of the contemporary challenges around agricultural commodity markets in India.