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Centre for Education and Communication, India, Social Justice |
Exploring (De-)Regulation of Labour in the Automative Value Chain in Delhi-NCR
The study examines the nature of employment relations, the composition of the workforce, modes of recruitment, work hours, access to amenities and social security in the sector. The study also examines the potential and challenges of regulating the Automotive Value Chain, especially in the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act context.
Read more … Exploring (De-)Regulation of Labour in the Automative Value Chain in Delhi-NCR
Council for Social Development, India, Social Justice |
Culture, Capital, and Witch Hunts in Meghalaya and Nagaland
In continuation of the conceptualisation of our earlier study on ‘Culture, Capital and Witch Hunts in Assam’, this study has tried to explore the social beliefs and ritual practices of witch-hunts in indigenous societies of Meghalaya and Nagaland in Northeast India.
Read more … Culture, Capital, and Witch Hunts in Meghalaya and Nagaland
India, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Social Justice |
Mass Grave Sites in Sri Lanka: History and Legal Framework
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.
Read more … Mass Grave Sites in Sri Lanka: History and Legal Framework
Focus on the Global South, India, Social Justice |
Graphic Series on Agriculture and Food Security
Join Soni and Lucky in their journey across India as they search for tough answers on food security and explore the complexity of Indian agriculture. The graphic series is created by Orijit Sen, Vidyun Sabhaney and Harsho Mohan Chattoraj.
Focus on the Global South, India, Social Justice |
Recovery & Road Ahead — Post COVID19 and Agriculture in South Asia
This paper discusses the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on food systems in South Asia to highlight the aftermath of the disruptions to supply chains, farming and agricultural markets.
Read more … Recovery & Road Ahead — Post COVID19 and Agriculture in South Asia
Council for Social Development, India, Social Justice |
Culture, Capital, and Witch Hunts in Assam
This study hopes to build an understanding of witch hunts in Assam and elsewhere, which is necessary for human society to end belief in witchcraft and the practice of witch violence and bring in a human rights-respecting culture.
Centre for Education and Communication, India, Social Justice |
Labouring in South Asia: Status, Issues and Possibilities
This year's Centre for Communication and Education Labour Dialogue focuses on: gig work and labour rights in South Asia; challenges before the labour movement in South Asia; South Asian migrant labour in the Gulf countries; fair wage, social protection and workplace safety for informal workers; and promoting the rights of migrant workers.
Read more … Labouring in South Asia: Status, Issues and Possibilities
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.
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 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.
Social Justice |
Bridging the Divide
A consultation on the interface between the seasonal migrant workers, the formal sector workers’ movement and oppressed caste-based movements in India.
India, Prayas, Social Justice |
They leave their homes to build ours
Issues and perspectives of migrant construction workers in Surat.
India, Social Justice, Society for Labour and Development |
Migrant Workers at Margin
Migrant Workers at the Margins October 2018 report examines whether migrant workers currently access their rights and civic entitlements to education, work, health, and food in migration sending areas and rural destinations.
India, KISLAY, Social Justice |
Migration and Women Casual Workers
Migration is now a central part of India's socioeconomic landscape, but few of the studies and policy discussions on this issue address the reality that the majority of migrants in India are women.
Social Justice |
Nepal Capitalism and Development
This volume consists of lectures given by prominent academicians, scholars and politicians of Nepal under RLS-CNS collaboration on topics relating to nature of capitalism in Nepal and development debates.