. Divided though the opinion was, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology -- discussing the issue of limited foreign investment in print media -- today decided to go with the majority view and table in Parliament its first draft opposing any kind of foreign participation in print media reports The HINDU.

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The Theeradesa Mahilavedi, the women's wing of the Kerala Swatantra Matsya Thozhilali Federation, will from a human chain around the Secretariat on March 8 to protest against "the indifferent attitude" of the State and Union Government towards fisherwomen.

Vinod Raina speaks on the closure of HSTP and the dynamics between the state and various independent initiatives

Please do come for the screening.

Several groups in North America, Europe and South Asia, along with an impressive list of over one thousand individuals, have appealed to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York to stand firm on its commitment to screen Anand Patwardhan's films, and to not cave in to censorship demands made by some groups and individuals in the US claiming to represent Hindu interests.

Concern over recent threats and intimidation against women activists of the social work organisation SANGRAM and the prostitutes collective VAMP (Veshya AIDS Mukabla Parishad) by the Nippani Circle Inspector of Police Satish Khot and the Shiv Sena corporator of Nippani.

AMERICA WAS FOUNDED BY CHRISTIAN GENTLEMEN? HERE IS SOME HISTORY FOR TONGUE-SPEAKING ASHCROFT AND TONGUE-TIED BUSH.

Green Party members across the U.S. and around
the world rally after the kidnapping of the Green
Party candidate for President of Colombia

If the United States decides to begin a full scale war against Iran, it will be a decision full of perils for America. The consequences will be permanent and irreversible.

a new film by the activist/independent film maker Anand Patwardhan will be screened at Georgetown University (Washington, D.C) on Monday, Feb. 25th, 2002.

The Magsaysay Award winner, Aruna Roy, drew a parallel today between activists and journalists and said, ``If you want to get to the truth, you face the same problems we face.'' Ms. Roy was speaking on `Media and the Right to Information' at the invitation of the Network of Women in Media in Mumbai.

. Representatives of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and voluntary bodies are up in arms over what they call is the ``Centre's attempts to choke the voluntary sector'' by further tightening the flow of foreign funds for development projects in the country.

The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader, Medha Patkar, told presspersons here on Friday, that the ex-parte allotment of land to the project-affected families (PAFs) in Alirajpur and Badwani in western Madhya Pradesh is in violation of the Narmada Water Dispute Tribunal Award.

Recently over a hundred women from the world of media in India met and formed this group: Network of Women in Media, India. Jyoti Punwani, a senior journalist from Bombay, who was also part of the forum, reported the following piece.

Statement by an Asian Delegation to the World Social Forum 2002
February 2, 2002

The Shiv Sena leader, Bal Thackeray, has warned that Ministers belonging to his party in the Union Cabinet would quit if the National Democratic Alliance Government did not reconsider in a month its decision to change labour laws which would threaten job security to workers of sick units.

. Expressing concern over the suicides by cotton farmers in Andhra Pradesh, the Human Rights Council, Visakhapatnam, has sought the intervention of the National Human Rights Commission to direct an enquiry and award of compensation to the families of the victims

The Left parties today strongly condemned the Centre's decision to amend the Industrial Disputes Act and Labour Laws permitting lay-off, retrenchment and closure of industrial units and saw it as an attack on workers' rights.

"Finland's 14 percent crime solving rate is not even poor...."