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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the PVCHR, a human rights organisation in Uttar Pradesh state, that several families in Alhadapur...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner MASUM, based in West Bengal that a family is facing continuous threat from extortionists and that...

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

Monoranjan Ghosh, a resident of Gopalpur village in South 24 Parganas District of West Bengal, was threatened by a money-extorting gang at least half a dozen times. Monoranjan was assaulted several ti...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the Human Rights Alert, a human rights organisation working in Imphal, Manipur regarding the alle...

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 with regard to the death of Mr. Hay...

Criminalisation of politics in India is a growing problem, despite legal attempts to address it. In 2003 a law was introduced to prohibit the election of criminals or alleged criminals to state or cen...

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 death of a 16 year ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in Uttar Pradesh, the PVCHR, regarding the alleged attack on the Dalit community by the upper cas...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR) in Uttar Pradesh that the 18 Musa...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner MASUM, a human rights organization in West Bengal, India, about the apparent police inaction into...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the MASUM, a human rights organization in West Bengal, India, regarding the alleged murder of two...

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

The following is a joint statement by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia), Asian Legal Resource Centre, and International NGO Forum on Indonesia Development (INFID) at the 4t...

The following is an oral submission made by Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) at the 4th Session of the Human Rights Council on March 26, 2007: Interactive dialogue – Special Rapporteur on Tor...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and human rights activists in Leh district of Jammu and Kashmir are a...

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

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that one renowned trade union activist and human rights defender namely Mr. Phani Gopal Bhattacharya, has allegedly been...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in West Bengal, MASUM, regarding the alleged illegal detention and brutal torture of a man by the...

The following is a joint statement by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia), Asian Legal Resource Centre, International NGO Forum on Indonesia Development (INFID), and Pax Roma...