Prisons in India are synonymous with deplorable conditions amounting to inhuman and degrading treatment and deaths of the prisoners from denial of basic medical facilities to torture. Prison reform is the least priority of the society and the State. Would Justice (retd) Amitava Roy Committee therefore be able to reform the shameful prisons of India? […]
On 12 October 2011, Asian Centre for Human Rights filed a complaint with the NHRC with respect to the custodial death of Lallu Nayka (42 years) at Pardi police station in Valasad district of Gujarat on 22 September 2011. He was reportedly a witness in an unsolved murder case. On the night of 21 September […]
On 23 April 2013, Asian Centre for Human Rights filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the custodial death of Virendra Kumar Mishra due to alleged torture at Hasanganj Police station in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh on the night of 18 April 2013. The deceased was picked up for interrogation in a […]
New Delhi: The State Government of Manipur provided compensation of Rs. 5.5 lakhs to the next of kin of Chongkham Sanjit Singh, a victim of extrajudicial execution following directions of the National Human Rights Commission acting on a complaint filed by Asian Centre for Human Rights on 3 August 2009. On 23 July 2009, Chongkham Sanjit Singh, […]
New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights welcomed the commutation of death sentence of Surinder Singh Koli, prime accused of the Nithari serial killings, into life imprisonment by the Allahabad High Court today on the grounds of delay of three years and three months as a step towards providing timely access to justice to death row […]
Under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) scrutinises human rights records of all the member States of the United Nations. The UPR was created as a mechanism of the HRC ostensibly to address selectivity and politicization under then UN Commission on Human Rights. Since its first session in […]
This report chronicles as to how India failed UN human rights test during the second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of India’s human rights record held on 24th May 2012 during the 13 th Session of the UPR of the Human Rights Council. The UPR is a unique process under which human rights records of all […]
On 24th May 2012, the United Nations Human Right Council reviewed India’s human rights record during the 13th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva, Switzerland. This was India’s second review under the UPR. During the UPR examination of India in 2008, only 18 recommendations were made to India. Though India submitted its […]
This submission is being made by Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) pursuant to the call made by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India for comments from the civil society organizations on its “Draft Universal Periodic Report-II” (available at http://www.mea.gov.in/mystart.php?id=5212). The comments are to be submitted by either fax to 011-23011922 or emailed […]
