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. Read more [...]
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. Read more [...]
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. Read more [...]
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. Read more [...]
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. Read more [...]
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. Read more [...]
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”. Read more [...]
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. Read more [...]
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. Read more [...]
