Here is a summary and some articles posted by Taimur Rahman that will hopefully help to educate people about what is at stake.
According to international water distribution law, the tail ender has a legal and natural right on river and that is why no mega construction or reservoir can be built without permission and endorsement [...]
The police carried out a raid and closed a factory. The children, who were working there, were all set free. Some said: “We are orphans. To eat we need a livelihood.” The reply was swift and crude: “It is against the law”.
“Then we will have to beg”, they said, “or else we will have no [...]
Civil liberties in the age of the War on Terror
Venue: HRCP auditorium (107 Tipu Block, Garden Town, Near Barkat Market).
Map:
Date: Sunday, 23rd March, 2008
Starting Time: 3:00 pm
Organizers: Young Professionals Lahore, Students Action Committee, FastRising
About the speakers:
Mrs. Amna Masood Janjua, spokesperson of the families of the missing people. Mrs Amna Masood’s husband went missing about 2 [...]
Simón Trinidad [nom de guerre of Ricardo Palmera Piñeda], the FARC’s well-known prisoner-exchange negotiator, was today sentenced to 60 years in prison in Federal District Court in Washington, DC. Several months ago, Trinidad was found guilty of conspiracy to take three [US] military contractors as hostages, a crime occurring back in 2003. The sentence was [...]
As one of the most significant interludes for the people of Pakistan starts with the approaching September 15th, all eyes are fixed on the Parliament, eager to know the fate of their country and their ‘unfortunate’ Constitution of 1973. General Pervez Musharraf, who was elected as the President of Pakistan through the phony referendum five [...]
After the decision of Supreme Court on 20th of July, where the epic Court declared the reference filed against the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry by General Pervez Musharraf as illegal, scores of people expressed their joy with regards to the decision over the media. Their delight was justified. The movement in favor of Chief [...]
Following are some of the notes that I took while studying ‘Marx and Engels on Law’ (a selection of the writings of Marx and Engels on Law) that are related with the subject. Forgive me for disorderly language and vague referencing:
Chapter 2: Law in Historical Materialism
‘base/superstructure’ relationship: “guiding thread for my studies”
“Marx and I [...]
“There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has” — Hugo Black, former Supreme Court Justice of USA.
In one of his articles, Michael Parenti, a leading progressive writer and political activist in USA, raises a very important issue about the inclinations of [...]
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