Social Movements in South Asia

Social Movements in South Asia: Selected Internet Resources

Looking for NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in South Asia? Try the NGO database, or SARAI's NGOs, or South Indian NGOs.
CorpWatch includes extensive reports on the activities of social movements in South Asia, including statistics on the economy, local effects of globalization, analysis of neo-liberal economic reforms, descriptions of anti-corporate and anti-poverty movements, and environmental actions.
SouthAsia.Net: Activism Public, includes many links about activist groups and social movement issues
South Asia Citizens Web hosts a rich site on a variety of social, economic and political issues.
Third World Network is an independent non-profit international network of organizations involved in issues relating to development, poverty, and north-south relations.

Chipko Movement, a site about activists fighting the destruction of forests in India.
The Greater Common Good, a widely-reprinted article by Arundhati Roy on the Narmada Valley.
Friends of the Narmada River, an international volunteer organizing working to protect the Narmada eco-system.
International Rivers Network's South Asia campaigns
National Alliance of Peoples' Movements and their work against CocaCola in India
South Asia country reports of oneworld.net, an international consortium of hundreds of activist groups working for social change.
SRISTI: society for research and initiatives for sustainable technologies and institutions

Corpwatch, includes statistics on the economy, local effects of globalization, analysis of neo-liberal economic reforms, descriptions of anti-corporate and anti-poverty movements.
Fair Trade Forum India, the national fair trade network of India
A 2010 podcast of a UCLA Center for India and South Asia talk on fair trade issues

David Bedell's Bibliography of Materials on South Asian Gay, Lesbian, Concerns.
Darpan, a gay magazine published in Delhi.
International Lesbian & Gay Association's Legal Survey on India (for reports on other South Asian countries, see their Asia page)
A page of essays, samalinga.
South Asian Queer Resources, a site hosted by the South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association of New York.
Trikone magazine

Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's "Untouchables," a 1999 report from Human Rights Watch
Child Labor and India, a report by the Indian Embassy.
Child Labor in India -- MNC Masala, an extensive archive of articles and fact sheets on child labor including information on IMF policies, the effects of globalization, and statements of children's rights organizations.
Child Labor in Pakistan, an in-depth report published in the Atlantic Monthly.
Human Rights Watch and Anmesty International include annual human rights reports for most South Asian countries.
Small Hands of Slavery: Bonded Child Labor in India, a report from Human Rights Watch
Tibetan community in Dharamsala, India, where tens of thousands of refugees from Chinese-occupied Tibet have created a community.

Bhima Sanga, a trade union of child laborers in India.
General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions, based in Kathmandu.
New Social and Political Unionism: Labour, Industry and the State, a paper by UCB professor Christopher Candland on the effects of globalization on the South Asian labor movements.
Pakistan Trade Union Movement, a short history from the current secretary general of the organization.
A speech by Renana Jhabvala of the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) in India, a labor group representing low-wage workers.
Working Women's Forum, a grassroots union network of poor working women in the "informal sector" in Madras, India.

India, Pakistan: Make Love, Not War lists many sites documenting the movement for peace and "cultural harmony" in South Asia.
Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament
Nuclear Testing in India and Pakistan: Selected Internet Resources is a webliography about nuclear issues on the subcontinent.
Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy, an anti-war group.
Peace Brigades International's Sri Lanka page.
South Asians Against Nukes, includes a selection of research papers, editorials and interviews on Indian and Pakistani nuclear issues.

Afghan Women's Association International, a non-profit organization devoted to defending the rights of Afghan women.
Community Development Society in Alappuzha, India is a participatory organization working to bring urban women out of poverty.
Directory of women's organizations in India, including phone, fax and sometimes email.
Feminism Theory Website has bibliographies of women's movements and links to organizations and individual feminists in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
Mahila Milan-Byculla, a poor women's collective in Bombay, India working for labor, housing and human rights.
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan includes
documents, photographs, movie clips on the situation of women under Islamic fundamentalism in Afghanistan.
SAWNET (South Asian Women's Network), a huge site that includes current news about the women's movement, reviews of books and movies, directories of organizations, and much more.
The Taliban's War on Women, a 1998 report by Physicians for Human Rights
The Women's Movement in India, an essay by Urvashi Butalia, a co-founder of Kali for Women.

India and the Struggle Against Apartheid, an online article by E.S. Reddy about the history of India's opposition to apartheid in South Africa.
Several sites are dedicated to Indian activist Mahatma Gandhi, including Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), and a RealAudio clip of one of Gandhi's speeches.
Women in the Independence Movement, a paper by Sonal Shukla and Amrita Shodhan