South Asia

A combination of recent events caught my attention that led to a few brief thoughts on India I wanted to share.

A poll gauging the Philippine government's response to the November 2009 political massacre in Maguindanao. 

Converging Indian and Pakistani interests in Afghanistan

As the war in Afghanistan takes a turn for the worse, the burden of blame has increasingly come to rest on the state of relations between India and Pakistan and their “rivalry” in Afghanistan.

The Philippine President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, hit the headlines last week when the news spread about a blood-chilling massacre that occurred in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao.

Introduction

Family is an important establishment recognized throughout the international community as the foundation of society.  Families are responsible for the wellbeing and development of their young children.  However, gender discrimination and cultural practices within families often run counter to the development of the female child.  Children throughout the world are subjected to sexual exploitation, particularly female children. 

Often, families help facilitate this practice. 

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent three-day visit to Islamabad and Lahore highlighted the ongoing challenge of conducting diplomacy in Pakistan.

Recent reports emerging from New Delhi indicate a new centralized offensive to combat the Naxalite threat in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, and

Adopted in 2005 at the United Nations’ World Summit, the doctrine of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) represents a remarkable evolutionary step for the international state system. R2P, which was pushed by then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in the wake of the Rwandan genocide, seeks to ensure that another Rwanda (or Cambodia or Holocaust) will never happen again.