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INDIA: Police Sub Inspector assaults innocent persons in Kerala

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Nervazhi, a local human rights organisation based in Thrissur, Kerala regarding an incident where a Sub Inspector o...

UPDATE (India): Continuing detention of human rights activist in Chhattisgarh

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the detention of Dr. Binayak Sen, a medical doctor and human rights activist based in Chhattisgarh, India has been extende...

INDIA: A comparison between India and three African states

What is common between the governments in Uganda, Sudan, India and Nigeria? The past or present governments in these four states had employed a policy of arming the local population against its own pe...

INDIA: Medical doctor from Dalit community abused at the clinic and the local police refusing to take action

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) in Uttar Pradesh regarding an inci...

INDIA: Caste based discrimination and assaults against Dalits are on the increase in Uttar Pradesh

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) in Uttar Pradesh (UP) regarding th...

INDIA: Widespread corruption in the Public Food Distribution System causing starvation deaths

The Prime Minister of India in his foreword in the ‘Report to The People’ dated May 22, 2007, claims: “In this 60th year of independence, the country should have the satisfaction of ...

INDIA: What is the difference between Chhattisgarh and Kerala?

Chhattisgarh and Kerala are two states in India. Chhattisgarh is a newly formed state compared to Kerala. Chhattisgarh and Kerala have nothing much in common. For example, the Chief Justice of India i...

ASIA: Courts cannot allow bullshitting with justice

(A comment on the Indian Supreme Court judgement on the Best Bakery Case) –Basil Fernando, May 2007 …[B]ullshitters, although they represent themselves as being engaged simply in conveying...

INDIA: Three persons from the scheduled caste forced to work as bonded labourers in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, the Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), regarding the bonded labour of t...

INDIA: An ailing man died in the custody of Border Security Force( BSF) due to lack of medical help

[NOTICE: To facilitate your intervention of the urgent appeals issued by the AHRC, we have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal...

INDIA: Alleged torture of a man by police and continuous intimidation to victim by Communist Party of India (Marxist) activists

[NOTICE: To facilitate your intervention of the urgent appeals issued by the AHRC, we have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal...

GENERAL APPEAL (India): Muslim weavers’ community in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh faces starvation and lack of social welfare

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the PVCHR, a human rights organisation based in Uttar Pradesh state, regarding the horrible livin...

ASIA: Two outstanding rights defenders from India awarded regional prize

(Hong Kong, May 2, 2007) Two persons fighting for human rights in different parts of India were awarded a prestigious regional human rights prize on Monday. The 2007 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights wen...

UPDATE (India): District Magistrate misusing his office to lead a smear campaign against human rights activists

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the uninterrupted campaign of the District Magistrate against the human rights organisations within hi...

INDIA: Bar Councils, lawyers and Indias destiny

A legal professional is not above the law. A solicitor in Hong Kong was sentenced to imprisonment recently. It was alleged that the solicitor’s client who had lodged a complaint about a stockbroker h...

INDIA: Illegal detention of two minors by police

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information through its local partner the MASUM, a human rights organisation based in West Bengal regarding the illegal three-day po...

INDIA: Alleged abduction and murder of two persons by the security forces in Manipur

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the Human Rights Alerts (HRA), a human rights organisation based in Imphal, of Manipur state, Ind...

INDIA: Complete failure in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Uttar Pradesh

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the PVCHR, a human rights organisation based in Uttar Pradesh state, regarding the complete failu...

INDIA: Failure of police investigation into alleged dowry death of a woman

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Indian autho...

INDIA: Government pleader leads criminals to demolish houses in Kerala

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner Nervazhi, a local human rights organisation based in Thrissur, Kerala that the government pleader...