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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing news of the starvation death of a 65 year-old woman in Sonbhadra, Uttar-Pradesh. Punvasia, an elderly tribal woman (adiva...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the discrimination of a person belonging to the Schedules Caste, vying for the post of a lec...

(Re: UG-04-2005: INDIA: Poor condition of the Basirhat Hospital morgue represents the collapse of post mortem system in West Bengal, AG-01-2004: INDIA: AHRC letter to the President of India regarding ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the rape of a young woman who was subsequently sold in a public auction on 20 August 2005 in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the torture and arrest of human rights activist, Mohammad Musa Azami, in Varanasi, Uttar Pra...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the illegal occupation of a room in a primary school build...

[RE: UA-138-2005: INDIA: Human rights activist facing death threats for working with Dalit and Backward Community] Dear friends, The article below includes the updates regarding the death threats to Â...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) welcomes the call by the President of India, Mr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam to the nation that the country should be self-sustaining within a period of 25 years in r...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the current situation of one adivasi (indigenous) family living in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra. Forty year-old Ra...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that further threats have been made to a colleague of Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi, who we reported on only two days ago as having ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to bring to your immediate attention the situation faced by Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi, a human rights activist working for the Dalits and the ...

[Re: UA-07-2005: INDIA: Handicapped torture and rape victim waits ten years for justice. Ms. Hasna Mondal, a handicapped woman, from East Daukimari, District Jalpaiguri, West Bengal is still waiting f...

Dear friends, Further to its previous urgent appeals and statements regarding the appalling conditions of morgues and the consequent ill treatment of dead bodies, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AH...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal about the local police in Jalangi, Murshidabad District, not only...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission(AHRC) has received information from People’s Watch-Tamil Nadu of a caste-based assault on a Dalit woman in Vengamedu village, Perunthrai Taluk, Er...

[Re: UA- 50 -2005: INDIA: Three and a half year wait for justice for the brutal murder of an Adivasi (tribal person) by a forest official in Gujarat] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (A...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to learn that at least two police officers have been suspended and arrested in connection with the torture and death of a man in polic...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received new information from the Social Development Foundation (SDF) in Delhi on a case involving the hunger and malnutrition plaguing one f...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Masum about the case of at least 250 tea garden labourers in Raimatang, Jalpaiguri district, who are suffering from...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about a sugar cane cutter losing his sight in one eye while working in the paddy fields that come ...