Hunger Alert Case

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing news from Masum of the death of a villager who committed suicide due to poverty and starvation in West Bengal on August 21, 2005. Bighna Bhuiyan, a resident of Bhuiyanpara Village, Kumarganj Block, South Dinajpur District was struggling to provide food for his family and […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing news of the starvation death of a 65 year-old woman in Sonbhadra, Uttar-Pradesh. Punvasia, an elderly tribal woman (adivasi), died on June 12, 2005 after suffering months of hunger and malnutrition when her government-allocated ration card expired. Starvation and malnutrition has been an ongoing […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Mindanao People’s Caucus (MPC), a coalition of human rights groups in Mindanao, regarding the threat of starvation and hunger to hundreds of villagers displaced by renewed fighting between soldiers and bandits in Guindulungan, Maguindanao province, Mindanao. The villagers were not able to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the current situation of one adivasi (indigenous) family living in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra. Forty year-old Ramesh Lakshman Sonawne, who is landless, settled in the Rustapur village over 20 years ago. In recent years he and his family have been struggling to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that three families are suffering starvation and are in desperate hunger in the municipalities of Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao. They are among the thousands of villagers reported to be vulnerable to hunger. Infestation of rats and severe drought left most of the affected families […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received new information from the Social Development Foundation (SDF) in Delhi on a case involving the hunger and malnutrition plaguing one family in Sonebhadra, Uttar-Pradesh. Despite repeated pleas for food assistance from local authorities, the mother and young children continue to live with extreme hunger. The […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Masum about the case of at least 250 tea garden labourers in Raimatang, Jalpaiguri district, who are suffering from night blindness due to a deficiency of vitamin A caused by malnutrition. According to the information received, the management of the tea garden is […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that some families of tenant farmers in Pigcawayan, Cotabato, Mindanao, have experienced starvation following a severe drought that destroyed their farm crops. The families are dependent on their farm produce for their food, livelihood and basic needs. After the drought they are now having […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received new information from Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum) regarding the appalling starvation situation in the South 24 Parganas District, West Bengal. The entire community, mainly made up of villagers belonging to the Munda indigenous group, has been facing hunger for many months. Many are on the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received new information from the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR) in Uttar Pradesh concerning three starvation deaths in one family during April and May 2005. The surviving members are also facing imminent death due to starvation. The AHRC urges you to write to the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received new information from the Social Development Foundation (SDF) in Delhi concerning a disturbing case of potential hunger and starvation amongst the tribesmen and women in the Chitrakoot district of Uttar-Pradesh. The villagers, mainly landless Kol adivasis (tribal people), were forcibly removed from their land in […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received new information concerning a man who died from an adverse reaction due to taking medicine on an empty stomach. Mr. Tilangi Mushhar, working in Kushinagar district as a daily brick kiln worker, died on March 11, 2005. He had not eaten any food on the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Social Development Foundation (SDF) in Delhi, India of a disturbing case where the government is playing a vital role in creating poverty and hunger. Suddhu Rawat, his wife, and children are just one of several families living in Ghazipur and employed by […]

Update on Urgent Appeals: UA-35-2003: Two hundred Adivasis made homeless over land rights; UP-32-2003: Enquiry into the shooting of Adivasis in 2001; UP-34-2003: Landless people stand firm against continuing government attacks; UP-40-2003: Hunger strike of Adivasis calling for right to land and UP-13-2004: Please send a letter to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra calling for right to land for Adivasi […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the living conditions of adivasis (tribal people) employed as sugarcane cutters at the Bardoli Sugar Factory in Surat, Gujarat. The factory, under the Co-operative Societies Act, is governed by the Registrar and employs the adivasis through a contractor. The factory, in accordance with […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) regarding the suicides of two young girls who had suffered extreme hunger and malnutrition for a prolonged time and could do so no more. Sundari Sardar and and Phulan Sardar, from the state of West Bengal, committed suicide after […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a horrific fire that?ripped through the Koilasava village in Kushinagar, Uttar-Pradesh, leaving 40 Mushhar families with nothing but the clothes that they wear and damage to the huts and contents of many other village families. Despite the severity of the fire and the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) regarding the death by starvation of a young pregnant mother. Ms. Bulbuli Paul, a pregnant 25 year-old mother of two, died at almost full term (nine months). The cause of death was reported as malnutrition by the health officer […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) in West Bengal, India, that people in the South Dinajpur district are dying of starvation while the government authorities have not taken any effective action to stop the deaths. It is reported that starvation has been a lengthy concern […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum) in West Bengal, India, that people in Murshidabad district are dying of starvation while the government authorities have not taken any effective action to stop the deaths. One five-year-old boy is reported to have been eating dirt before he […]