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INDIA: Magistrate assaults journalists at police station

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) regarding the executive magistrate in Varanasi distr...

UPDATE (India): False charge filed against Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi and colleagues

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to provide you the update regarding the case of Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi and the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR). ...

ASIA: A year of historic struggles for human rights

The year 2007 will be remembered as a year in which brought out increasingly belligerent responses from ruling elites across Asia. It is certain that throughout the region more and more people are res...

INDIA: Human rights activist threatened for reporting starvation death

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights [PVCHR] in Uttar Pradesh that their field activist Mr. Manoj...

INDIA: Human rights activist facing threats for reporting cases in Uttar Pradesh

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) regarding the recent threats to Dr. Lenin Raghuvansh...

INDIA: Pregnant mother and two-year-old baby likely to die from starvation

INDIA: Failure of government health system; non-functional Public Distribution System; right to food; caste discrimination; corruption —————————&#...

INDIA: Three-year-old Dalit boy may die soon from acute starvation in Jaunpur 

INDIA: Government neglect; caste based discrimination; corruption; right to food; failing public health system ————————————̵...

UPDATE (India): Three cases of assault in Nandigram, West Bengal

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information from MASUM, a local human rights organization in West Bengal, India, regarding the brutal attack by armed carder...

INDIA: Yet another person dies from starvation in Uttar Pradesh 

INDIA: Government neglect; caste based discrimination; corruption; right to food; failing public health system ————————————̵...

INDIA: Human rights activist facing death threats in Varanasi

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) regarding the case of Mr. Prem Kumar Nut, a human ri...

INDIA: Statement from Concerned Citizens on the Shameful Events in Nandigram in the last few days

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Article 21-Now, a human rights group based in India regarding the recent attack in Nandigram. The statement issued by the Asian Hum...

INDIA: Maltreatment of a couple by Border Security Forces (BSF), West Bengal

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organization in West Bengal, India, regarding the maltreatment of a couple by the Borde...

UPDATE (India): CPI-M cadres’ blunt attack resumed against villagers in Nandigram with inaction and connivance of the West Bengal state government

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the MASUM, a local human rights organization in West Bengal, India, regarding the brutal attack by armed activists ...

INDIA: The state government of West Bengal is promoting organised crime

Nandigram, a remote village in West Bengal state of India is once again in front page news in the country. This remote village in West Bengal was in the news 11 months ago when violence erupted in the...

ASIA: Using the law for social change

Presentation at the International Human Rights Colloquium at San Paulo organised by CONECTAS from 3rd to 8th November by: Basil Fernando Executive Director of the Asian Human Rights Commission This is...

INDIA: One minor injured and another killed when Border Security Forces open fire in West Bengal

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by yet another alleged extra-judicial killing committed by the Border Security Forces (BSF) in West Bengal, India. According ...

ASIA: The future opportunities for the eradication of torture and proliferation of universal human rights within the current global discourse

Basil Fernando (A presentation for the International Seminar on Freedom from Torture – Challenges we face for the rehabilitation and prevention on the occasion on the 25th anniversary of the Rehabili...

INDIA: Can courts and media be substitutes for governance?

On October 22, 2007 the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) received a communication from the government of Kerala in India. The communication, in the form of a letter, dated September 9, 2007 prepar...

INDIA: Human rights activist facing threats for protesting against corruption

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) regarding the case of Mr. Mangala Prasad, a human ri...

GENERAL APPEAL (India): Dalit women refused medical care and asked to pay bribe at the Primary Health Centre

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Gramya Sansthan, a human rights organisation based in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh regarding the case of two women who w...