Child rights

Avinash Pandey Samar* On 23 May 2010, police officers, including a woman police constable reportedly tortured and abused a mother and her 12-year-old son in Rajouri Garden Police Outpost in Delhi. It is reported that the officers forced Mala (name changed) to strip naked in front of her minor son and demanded her to have […]

Dear Friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that 11 farmers, including four minors, were arbitrarily detained. Legally non-existent charges have been laid against them after the policemen arrested them. The farmers were requesting the landowner’s representative, who had come together with the policemen in Calamba City, Laguna to refrain from […]

Two incidents of child abductions were reported in the past two weeks. One was of a two and a half year old boy from Kelaniya. The other case is of a one and a half year old little boy from Hendala Palliyawatte, who is still missing. The recovery of the little boy revealed a story […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 14 year-old girl was gang raped by armed men to punish her father for identifying them in a case of theft at his house. When the girl was being raped police in the vicinity heard her cries from a distance but did […]

Parents of these children say that apart from the trauma of losing their loved ones, equally painful is the lack of interest shown by the police in recovering them. The police say that since children’s going missing is not a cognisable offence on its own, it is difficult to follow up in the manner that […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a teacher severely caned three young students in Kurunegala before forcing them to eat inedible produce as part of a punishment. One 13-year-old fell violently ill and has since been to hospital a number of times, missing a month of school. Corporal punishment in […]

Danilo Reyes From the moment a child is born into a family of sugarcane workers he becomes an object of control in his society, community and even in his own family. For such a long time now the lives of the people have revolved around sugarcane planting and production that it is naturally assumed any […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that police and officials are refusing to respond to the abduction of a fifteen-year-old Hindu girl by a neighbour in December last year. Her parents found her captive in a Muslim seminary and were told that she was married and had converted to Islam. The […]

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from India Committee of the Netherlands. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from India Committee of the Netherlands forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: Petitions on Child Labour policy & Vedanta mining company Stop Child Labour petition On the […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to share its concern regarding the killing of two women and a 12-year-old child by army personnel under unclear circumstances in Bardyia National Park in Nepal. Although the army claims that the victims were killed during an encounter, there is evidence to suggest otherwise, leading to […]

Mr. Anoop Mishra, Madhya Pradesh state Minister of Public Health and Family Welfare said in the state legislative assembly on 8 March that 30,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every year in the state. The shocking admission by the minister about the state government’s criminal neglect in addressing the need of […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is calling for a legitimate investigation into the trafficking of a 14-year-old girl in Jaitpura, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. We have learned that local police officers initially refused to register the case of kidnapping and trafficking but that the Director General of Police did so after being contacted […]

Dear friends,  Amnesty International, supported by other civil society organisations such as the Advocacy Forum Nepal, is beginning an international campaign today to call for justice in the infamous case of murdered 15-year-old Maina Sunuwar. Four military officers are accused of having illegally arrested, raped and tortured Maina to death on 17 February 2004. Despite the […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned about the impunity of those involved in the murder of Maina Sunuwar. Four military officers are accused of having illegally arrested, raped and tortured this 15-year-old girl to death on 17 February 2004. Despite the enormous national and international attention this case has received […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an 8-year-old Dalit girl has been assassinated, in what could be a sacrifice for good omen on December 4, 2009 in Maryadpur, Rupandehi District, Nepal. The AHRC is concerned that the case may not receive appropriate attention from the local police who have […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a young deaf girl has been missing since June 2006 and that police have refused to investigate the case; instead they have acted as brokers for the suspected perpetrators. The seventeen-year-old was hired by a well known politico-religious family in Punjab to assist […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that Ms. Bhuje died on New Year’s Eve after struggling against sickness and hunger since April 2009. She leaves behind seven children. Before Bhuje’s death, her husband died of Tuberculosis in January 2009. Facing lack of food and lack of a sustainable livelihood, […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information that Galle police have refused to register a mother’s complaint about suspicions that her 24-year-old daughter was murdered. The authorities also failed to adequately look into the woman’s concerns that the girl was being put to work by her foster family, years before. […]

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a rape victim for whom we have been campaigning has finally won her case in court, after a judge took particular interest. The victim has been fighting a criminal case against her father for more than five years, during which she has been […]

Dear friends, A seven-year-old girl was badly injured when members of the Frontiers Corp (FC), a para-military force fired indiscriminately at the car she was traveling in, in Hayatabad, Peshawar. One of her legs has had to be amputated and her second leg is badly fractured. Her uncle was also severely injured in the attack […]