REPORTS
ACHR REVIEW
- Police firing in India: Human life remains as cheap as a bullet, 13 January 2012
- AG’s opinion on the AFSPA is non-est in law, 3 December 2011
- The State versus Kataria: The Impunity of the Indian Army and Lessons from Nepal, 16 April 2008
- India’s failed National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy, 2007, 19 December 2007
- The Other Side of India’s boom: 1000 Conflicts Now, 12 December 2007
- Racism in India, 21 October 2007
- The Naxals get lethal, 03 October 2007
- Dr Haneef’s case: Lest we forget India’s hypocrisy and double standards, 25 July 2007
- The Naxal Conflict: Killings decrease, conflict intensifies, 04 July 2007
- Declaration of the National Conference on Prevention of Torture in India, 27 June 2007
- Preface: India Human Rights Report 2006, 31 January 2007
- Atrocities at Singur, India : A matter of rights of the dispossessed, 06 December 2006
- Episodic reactions for 60 years: Arming the Dalits Now? 29 November 2006
- No succour for the victims of the armed opposition groups in India, 10 May 2006
- From Asia with Caution: An unconfident democracy, a suave dictatorship and a proxy candidate, 26 April 2006
- Messengers under fire in India, 15 February 2006
- Naxalism and looming civil wars of India, 21 September 2005
- A Bad Case: NHRC of India clogged under operational inefficiency, 3 August 2005
- Forest Rights Bill vs Environmental Extremism, 4 May 2005
- Review of the AFSPA: Need for upholding primacy of the rule of law, 5 January 2005
- Review of AFSPA: Too Little, Too Late, 3 November 2004
- Guns and Talks in India's Wretched of the Earth, 13 October 2004
- India's NHRC: The best case is quite worse, 15 September 2004
- Spanners in the Draft National Policy on Tribals, 11 August 2004
- Mal-administration of indigenous and tribal peoples of India, 4 August 2004
- Protecting cultures and identities of India's indigenous peoples, 28 July 2004
- No rights, only charity for India's indigenous and tribal peoples, 21 July 2004
- Archaic visions: India's Draft National Policy on Tribals, 14 July 2004
- Holy cows, chained watchdog and a Banana Republic, 28 January 2004
- Interpreters of the Draconian: An analysis of the POTA judgement and POTA Amendment Bill 2003, 01 January 2004
PRESS RELEASES
2012
2011
- Jammu & Kashmir: Juveniles detained without trial, girls compulsorily sent to prisons and police lock ups, 16 November 2011
- 12 RTI activists killed since 2010:
ACHR demands amendment of the Act to protect the activists, 2 September 2011
- Only in 1.73% of the 77,925 cases registered by the Central Vigilance Commission permission for prosecution has been given, 23 August 2011
- Bru repatriation to resume from tomorrow; Mizoram asked to resettle the returnees in the villages, 11 April 2011
- 50,000 displaced Rabhas and Garos facing discrimination, 21 January 2011
- About 30,000 remaining Bru IDPs agree to return, Home Ministry assures further assistance to the returnees, 6 January 2011
- NHRC overrules Meghalaya government, orders Rs 5 lakh compensation, 5 January 2011
2010
- PR/IND/20-2010: Mining companies are arming the Maoists, 8 December 2010
- PR/IND/19-2010: ACHR condemns killing of 18 civilians in Assam by NDFB, 9 November 2010
- PR/IND/18-2010: MHA and North Eastern states not complying with Supreme Court order for vacating school premises by the security forces, 8 November 2010
- PR/IND/17-2010: Resumption of Bru repatriation to Mizoram welcomed, 03 November 2010
- PR/IND/16-2010: Orissa: Torture and sexual abuse forced juveniles to flee Berhampur Observation Home, 06 October 2010
- PR/IND/15-2010: Maoists urged to release 4 Chhattisgarh policemen, 30 September 2010
- PR/IND/14-2010: Rajya Sabha urged to reject Prevention of Torture Bill, 2010, 27 August 2010
- PR/IND/13-2010: Compensation of 3 lakhs for death of a Mizo juvenile detainee is highly insensitive and inadequate, 23 August 2010
- PR/IND/12-2010: ACHR condemns attack on the Gyaneshwari Express by the Maoists, 28 May 2010
- PR/IND/11-2010: 154 displaced Bru families returned to their homes in Mizoram today, 21.05.2010
- PR/IND/10-2010: Repatriation of the displaced Brus to Mizoram to start on
21 May 2010 on Home Ministry’s assurance, 19 May 2010
- PR/IND/09-2010: Maoists’ dastardly attack on
civilians in Chhattisgarh uncondonable, 18 May 2010
- PR/IND/08-2010: 41.66% increase of custodial deaths under the UPA from 2000, 13 April 2010
- PR/IND/07-2010: Arrest of prominent human rights activist, Kirity Roy, condemned, 7 April 2010
- PR/IND/06-2010: Army asked to pay compensation for torture of innocents in Assam, 15 March 2010
- PR/IND/05-2010: Wanton killing of civilians by alleged Maoists in Bihar condemned, 18 February 2010
- PR/IND/04-2010: NHRC directs Manipur to report about 111 fake encounter killings, 2 February 2010
- PR/IND/03-2010: Mizoram arrests Bru leader to sabotage talks and return of the Brus: Chidambaram urged to intervene, 23 January 2010
- PR/IND/02-2010: Mizoram failed to protect the Brus: November repatriation was a recipe for chaos and conflict, 21 January 2010
- PR/IND/01-2010: NHRC rejects BSF authority’s report, awards Rs 6.5 lakhs compensation to victims, 8 January 2010
2009
- PR/IND/12-09: ACHR concludes Bru displacement fact finding mission, 15 December 2009
- PR/IND/11-09: ACHR accepts offer of the Mizoram government to visit the communal affected areas if security can be guaranteed, 27 November 2009
- PR/IND/10-09: CBI investigation sought into the communal attacks on the Brus in Mizoram, 20 November 2009
- PR/IND/0909: Orissa pays compensatioon for custodial death of a prisoner, 14 September 2009
- PR/IND/0809: Naxals condemned for massacre of civilians in Jharkhand, 7 September 2009
- PR/IND/0709: Meghalaya flayed for pre-judging NHRC’s impending order on custodial death, 27 August 2009
- PR/IND/0609: NHRC awards Rs 5 lakhs compensation, 22 August 2009
- PR/IND/0509: UN Rapporteur on Torture urged to intervene against NHRC of India, 3 August 2009
- PR/IND/0409: Govt urged to place anti-torture Bill before the Parliamentary Standing Committee, 21 July 2009
- PR/IND0309: NHRC not complying with Delhi High Court orders, 2 July 2009
- PR/IND0209: Police torture kills 1,184 persons in custody
in India in the last eight years, 25 June 2009
- PR/IND0109: India Human Rights Report 2009, 29 May 2009
2003-2008
- PR/IND/04/08: "India Human Rights Report 2008" released, 9 December 2008
- PR/IND/03/08: NHRC condemned for the failure to act on Orissa, 3 September 2008
- PR/IND/02/08:Torture in India 2008: 7,468 custodial deaths in the last five years, 25 June 2008
- PR/IND/01/08:Arrest of Irom Sharmila condemned, 08 March 2008
- PR/IND/11/07: Naxal leaders must be held responsible for the Jharkhand killings, 27 October 2007
- PR/IND/10/07: Naxal violence kills 384 persons in India, 03 October 2007
- PR/IND/09/07: Expulsion of “Doctors Without Borders” from Chhattisgarh is counter-productive, 11 August 2007
- PR/IND/08/07: Naxal killings decrease by 45% during first half of 2007, 04 July 2007
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PR/IND/07/07: Government urged to develop a National Law on prevention of Torture, 25 June 2007
- PR/IND/06/07: Fact finding report on the custodial killing of Rohtas Singh, Faridabad released, 13 June 2007
- PR/IND/05/07: Armed groups are responsible for more violations, police firing endemic, 30 May 2007
- PR/03/2007: 749 killed in 2006 in the Maoists' conflict in India : Salwa Judum campaign prolongs the conflict, 10 January 2007
- PR/IND/01/2006: President Kalam urged to demand release of Aung San Suu Kyi, 08 March 2006
- PR/IND/03/2005: ACHR deplores Maoists' massacre in Jharkhand, 13 September 2005
- PR/IND/02/2005: Don’t penalise the tribals - Young MPs urged, 06 May 2005
- PR/IND/01/2005: NHRC approached against tattooing of prisoners in Punjab, 26 April 2005
- PR/IND/01/2003: Vulnerable children's rights not protected in India, ACHR study, 30 October 2003