ACHR urges President of UN Human Rights Council for removal of UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Professor Yanghee Lee for bias
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ACHR urges President of UN Human Rights Council for removal of UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Professor Yanghee Lee for bias
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 […]
India is infamous for female foeticide and female infanticide, the crudest forms of gender based violence. The Child Sex Ratio (CSR) defined as the number of females per 1000 males in the age group 0-6 years had come down alarmingly to 939 as per 2011 census from 961 in 2001 in undivied Andhra Pradesh indicating […]
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 […]
