Female foeticide because of preference for boys over girls for a host of reasons is gigantic in India. According to the estimates of Asian Centre for Human Rights, during 1991 to 2011, a total of 25,49,3,480 girls went missing primarily as a result of sex selection. The child sex ratio (CSR) in India has […]
H.E. Joaquín Alexander Maza Martelli President UN Human Rights Council C/o-Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland Email: hrcpresidency@unog.ch Subject: Seeking your urgent intervention for the removal of UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Professor Yanghee Lee for blatant […]
Days after a series of attacks on Africans just an hour’s drive from capital New Delhi and a sharp barb by foreign diplomats, the Indian government rejected that the incidents were racist in nature, pending an investigation. On this edition of We The People, we ask: Are we in denial when we say that India […]
Inside: Executive summary The 2016 survey of the Rohingya refugees by the Government of Bangladesh: Rohingya refugees are mainly settled in the CHTs Bangladesh indirectly encouraging ethnic cleansing of the Rohingyas in Arakan and ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples of the CHTs From refugees to rulers: The case of the Rohingya refugees becoming effective rulers […]
As per census from 1981 to 2011, India’s only Muslim majority State Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) had recorded the highest decline in the Child Sex Ratio (CSR) by 102 points followed by tiny Dadra & Nagar Haveli (69 points), Haryana (68 points), Rajasthan (66 points), Himachal Pradesh (62 points) and Punjab (62 points), among others. […]
New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today welcomed the commutation of death sentence of four death row convicts i.e. Krishna Mochi, Nanhe Lal Mochi, Bir Kuer Paswan and Dharmendra Singh @ Dharu Singh by President Pranab Mukherjee. They were convicted in the Bara massacre case of 13 February 1993 in Bihar. The State Government […]
India is fighting a losing battle against sex selection because of son preference, dowry, neglect of girl child, higher mortality at younger age, female infanticide, female foeticide etc. According to the estimates of Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), during 1991 to 2011 a total of 250 million girls or 12.5 million girls per […]
New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today welcomed the recommendation of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to commute the death sentence of four death row convicts i.e. Krishna Mochi, Nanhe Lal Mochi, Bir Kuer Paswan and Dharmendra Singh @ Dharu Singh who were convicted in the Bara […]
