Category Archives: South Asia

Trading women for profit

Graham Peebles examines the worldwide problem of trafficking in women in the context of a global capitalist system that gives primacy to the commercialisation and commodification of everything and everyone.

Commercialization and conflict in new India

Graham Peebles views the causes of the insurgency in parts of India – poverty, neglect and government policy focused on enriching the corporate rich – and argues the case for sharing resources.

Human rights vs tyranny

Alan Hart assesses the state of human rights and explains what must happen if the world’s population is to live as humans and not as animals or more like animals than humans.

Trafficking of children and women in India

Graham Peebles views the plague of human trafficking afflicting India, and argues that the Indian government must act to implement regulations outlawing trafficking and associated criminality, including police and official corruption.

The struggle for justice in India’s Manipur

Graham Peebles looks at how emergency laws introduced in India’s northeast in 1958 and still in force 61 years later are allowing the army and paramilitaries literally to get away with murder.

Corporate India vs indigenous peoples

Graham Peebles calls for an alternative to the greedy corporate-driven capitalist totalitarianism that is confining millions of India’s indigenous Adivasi and Dalit peoples to poverty and the margins of society.

India’s inequality and destructive development

Graham Peebles outlines the scale and depth of poverty, inequality and injustice pervading India under the banner of globalization and free market fundamentalism – what is known as the Indian economic “miracle”.

Indian farmers trapped and desperate

Graham Peebles considers the reasons for the epidemic of suicides afflicting India’s debt-ridden, corporate-crushed farmers, and views the Indian government’s response – a mixture of indifference and siding with big business.

Daughters of India violated and abused

Graham Peebles argues that India must undergo fundamental legal reform and a sea-change in attitudes towards genders if it is to protect its women and girls from rape, violence, abuse and indignity.