Indian society is infamous for son preference and discrimination against the girl child leading to female foeticide and female infanticide. According to the Government of India, “Some of the reasons for neglect of girl child and low child sex ratio are son preference and the belief that it is only the son who can […]
The Government of India enacted the Pre-conception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (PC&PNDT Act) to address the menace of sex selection leading to female foeticide. After 20 years, as per information placed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare before the Lok Sabha on 27.02.2015, 14 States/UTs i.e. Arunachal […]
Child Sex Ratio (CSR) i.e. the number of girls per 1,000 boys in the age group 0-6 years has reached alarming proportion in India. Haryana has the lowest CSR among the States and Union Territories in India. As per the Government of India, “some of the reasons for neglect of girl child and low child […]
NDTV Published on Apr 23, 2016 On The Big Fight tonight we debate the issue of rising radicalisation in Kashmir and the presence of the Army in civilian areas. Questions on the misuse of the Armed Forces Special Act (AFSPA) continue as activists from Kashmir confess that it is time that the voice of the […]
NDTV Published on Feb 13, 2016 Though we profess to believe in the mantra of universal brotherhood yet there is no denying of the fact that there is a deep-seated bias or prejudice against communities different from our own. Whether it’s the taunt that people from North East hear in Delhi or police hostility towards […]
New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights in its report, “Arunachal Pradesh: Not the Chakmas/Hajongs but other non-tribals pose bigger threat to indigenous peoples”, today stated that Chakmas and Hajongs of Arunachal Pradesh who had migrated from erstwhile East Pakistan during 1964-1968 do not pose any threat to indigenous peoples of Arunachal Pradesh. The issue of […]
New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights today urged the President of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC, Ambassador Mr Joachim Rücker of Germany to issue a “President’s Statement” on the situation of human rights in Maldives at the ongoing 29th Session of the UNHRC for the blatant violation of the UNHRC Resolution No. 24/24 of 9 October 2013 […]
– President Yameen putting his opponents in jail but not taking any action against those joining the Islamic State – New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights today called upon the UN Human Rights Council, which is holding its 29th session from today i.e.15th June 2015 in Geneva, to adopt a resolution on the deplorable human rights […]
-UN and Bangladesh making them easy prey to traffickers and terrorists- New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) in a report (https://www.achrweb.org/Review/2015/244-15.html) released today stated that the United Nations and the Government of Bangladesh have been deliberately making the Rohingyas easy prey to the traffickers and terrorists, and over 200,000 undocumented Rohingyas in Bangladesh are essentially waiting to […]
