Dear Hon’ble Home Minister of Bangladesh, The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), a NGO having Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council, is writing to express our dismay with your statement on 11 March 2026 at a seminar on “National Human Rights Commission Ordinance, 2025 and Expectations from the New Parliament” […]
মাননীয় স্বরাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী, বাংলাদেশ সরকার, এশিয়ান সেন্টার ফর হিউম্যান রাইটস (ACHR) – জাতিসংঘের অর্থনৈতিক ও সামাজিক পরিষদের (UN ECOSOC) বিশেষ পরামর্শমূলক মর্যাদা সম্পন্ন একটি এনজিও – আপনাকে এই পত্রটি লিখছে। গত ১১ মার্চ ২০২৬ তারিখে “জাতীয় মানবাধিকার কমিশন অধ্যাদেশ, ২০২৫ এবং নতুন সংসদের কাছে প্রত্যাশা” শীর্ষক সেমিনারে আপনার দেওয়া বক্তব্যে বিষয়ে আমাদের বিস্ময় প্রকাশ করছি। উক্ত […]
Dear Hon’ble Home Minister of Bangladesh, The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), a NGO having Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council, is writing to express our dismay with your statement on 11 March 2026 at a seminar on “National Human Rights Commission Ordinance, 2025 and Expectations from the New Parliament” […]
In the last 45 days between 1 December 2025 to 15 January 2026, at least 15 minority Hindus were murdered by persons belonging to the majority Muslims in Bangladesh i.e. murder of one Hindu every third day. The minority Hindus murdered are Samir Das and Prolay Chaki on 11 January 2026; Joy Mohapatra on 10 […]
In an unprecedented order, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) directed the Chief Secretary, Government of Goa “to arrest and bring the said Secretary, Home Department, Government of Goa before the Commission on 19.9.2018 at 12:00 Noon and return the warrant duly executed on or before 12.9.2018 with an endorsement certifying the day on which […]
The interventions of the Asian Centre for Human Rights led to the rescue of two Scheduled Tribe girls of Assam, aged 12 years and 19 years, and their reunion with their families after they were abducted and trafficked to Mumbai in 2012. The tribal girls namely Dibya Devi Chakma (12 years), d/o Natun Chandra Chakma […]
The problem of female foeticide or sex selection in India is acute in India. The invention of technology i.e. ultrasonography for pre-natal sex determination in 1980s replaced intentional killing of infant girls with sex selective abortion of female foetuses. Since 1990s various studies recognised female infanticide as a serious problem with reduction of women in […]
This report chronicles as to how the United Nations Human Rights Council considered the issue of female foeticide in India under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of India’s human rights record during the third cycle of the UPR held in May 2017. In its National report, the Government of India raised the issue and that […]
A total of 4,29,225 girls altogether went missing during 2001 and 2011 in the age bracket of 0-10 years in Gujarat according to Census 2011 and Gujarat recorded the 8th lowest Child Sex Ratio (CSR) among 35 States and UTs of India with CSR of 890 girls per 1000 boys against all India average […]
Following the fall of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on 4th August 2024 after 15 years of iron rule, an Interim Government headed by Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus took over. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) was invited to investigate the violations committed during July-August 2024 mass protests that led […]
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in its latest report (A/HRC/42/39) submitted to the 42nd session of the UN Human Rights Council being held in Geneva from 9-27 September 2019 stated that many detainees who were subjects of its opinions have faced reprisals from the Member States and called on the States concerned […]
The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has urged the Government of Bangladesh to cooperate with the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to determine the fate or whereabouts of those disappeared and to prevent future enforced disappearances in the country. The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances in its latest report submitted […]
Pursuant to the directions of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) vide proceedings dated 26.04.2019, a 15-year-old Dalit boy who had been victimized by a Uttar Pradesh Police Constable Sanjesh Yadav in Hathras district, received interim compensation of Rs.1.5 lakh in May 2019. As per report dated 18.07.2019 submitted by the Superintendent of Police, Hathras, […]
Available at Gulf News 10 September 2019 Girls are disappearing from some communities, some are bought as ‘slaves’ by the men Dubai: Women are being forced to take several husbands at once amid ‘wife shortage’ in the Baghpat district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. An August 2019 story by the Telegraph shares the account of […]
As the UNESCO’s 47th Session of the World Heritage Committee takes place in Paris till 16 July 2025, the betrayal of indigenous peoples living in the World Heritage sites of the UNESCO, where they often become victims of forced evictions, torture, extrajudicial executions, sexual violence etc, has come to the fore. I. UNESCO BLOCKING THE […]
In the last 45 days between 1 December 2025 to 15 January 2026, at least 15 minority Hindus were murdered by persons belonging to the majority Muslims in Bangladesh i.e. murder of one Hindu every third day. The minority Hindus murdered are Samir Das and Prolay Chaki on 11 January 2026; Joy Mohapatra on 10 […]
