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INDIA: Where freedom & dignity remains a mirage 

The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-003-2013.pdf/view Human Rights Day commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of...

INDIA: अधिकारों की छाँव तले झुलसते बच्चे 

बीते हफ़्तों में चुनावी सरगर्मी के बीच अंतर्राष्ट्रीय बाल अधिकार दिवस अनजान...

INDIA: चुनावी राजनीति में कहाँ गुम हो गए बच्चों के हक के सवाल? 

आजकल मध्यप्रदेश के चुनावी समर में कुपोषण एक बार फिर प्रमुख चुनावी मुद्दा है|...

INDIA: Implementation of the National Food Security Bill – will the poor benefit?[i] 

In a previous article I argued that India’s “rights revolution” has so far mostly existed on paper without significant improvements in the conditions of the poor. In this article I e...

INDIA: Report of the Fact Finding Committee on the suicide of Mr Venkatesh, Ph D Student, University of Hyderabad

Introduction: Mr Madari Venkatesh, Ph.D (Chemistry), third year student, in the Advanced Centre for Research in High Energy Materials (ACRHEM), University of Hyderabad, committed suicide by consuming ...

INDIA: Imminent threat of arrest and harassment to Ms. Sheeba Aslam Fahmi

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the imminent threat of arrest and harassment of New Delhi based journalist, feminist activist and human rights...

INDIA: Food Security Bill – Making sense of the media debate[i] 

The Government of India, led by Congress, claim to be champions of the poor. In the upcoming election they will point out that they have given rights to all the poor; The National Rural Employment Gua...

INDIA: बैगा समुदाय की परम्परागत खा़द्य सुरक्षा,पोषण एवं स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं की स्थिति 

An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: बैगा समुदाय की परम्परागत खा़द्य सुरक्षा,पोषण एवं स्वा...

INDIA: मध्यप्रदेश के सतना जिले में मातृत्व और बाल स्वास्थ की स्थिति 

मध्यप्रदेश के सतना जिले का मझगवां ब्लाक उ.प्र. की सीमा से लगा किनारे का ब्लाक ...

INDIA: Mother’s Quest for Justice 

The culture of women’s movement often set it root in motherhood as symbol or a weapon to create space. The notion of motherhood proved instrumental for women struggle for justice world wide. Pat...

INDIA: Inventing Enemies – The Indian Way 

In 1958, north east India was declared as a ‘disturbed area’ and the draconian legislation Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) was imposed to fight the ‘enemies’, w...

INDIA: Assam police fabricate charges over the murder of rights activist

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from human rights activists based in North East India regarding the arbitrary arrest of two persons by fabricating charg...

INDIA: Policemen accused of human trafficking conducting his own ‘investigation’

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the involvement of police in human trafficking. And, the same police official (Police Station Sarailakhansi, D...

INDIA: Female police officer complains against the police 

This statement is released to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November Ms. Padmini, a traffic warden, has accused local police, investigating her complaint...

INDIA: Human rights defender Ms Agnes Kharshiing released; struggle for land rights of indigenous people continues

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received communication from Ms. Agnes Kharshiing, President of Civil Society Women’s Organisation (CSWO), regarding her arrest, denial ...

INDIA: Immediate release of human rights defender Ms. Agnes Kharshiing

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of the arrest of Ms. Agnes Kharshiing, President of Civil Society Women’s Organisation (CSWO), and subsequent rejection of bail...

INDIA: Disturbed or discriminated? 

The extension of ‘disturbed area’ status for north eastern states since 1955, and thereby the activation and extension of emergency laws, has been but a routine administrative exercise for...

INDIA: मध्य प्रदेश में बदस्तूर जारी है शिक्षा का भगवाकरण 

हमारे संविधान की उद्देशिका के अनुसार भारत एक समाजवादी, पंथनिरपेक्ष, लोकतंत...

INDIA: Irom Sharmila’s ‘attempted suicide’ enters 14th year, democracy’s murder 56th

Irom Sharmila Chanu’s story is a bizarre, almost schizophrenic, tale of absurdities. It has a woman who has not eaten a morsel for a full 13 years. It has a state that has kept her incarcerated for ...

INDIA: Fallen through the cracks: Malnourished children in Growing Gujarat 

The fact that every third child of Gujarat is malnourished comes as no revelation. It cannot be for a state whose Chief Minister Narendra Modi, now Prime Ministerial Candidate of the main opposition p...