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 […]
1. Executive summary and recommendations Bangladesh is scheduled to hold its next, the 13th Parliamentary Elections, on 12th February 2026. On one hand the exclusion of the Awami League, on other hand, the release of the Islamic terrorists, the availability of approximately 400,000 illegal weapons, and overall lawlessness that permeated the society, raise serious doubts […]
The Constitution of Bangladesh guarantees fundamental rights which are non-derogable by any law, and laws inconsistent with fundamental rights are void as per Article 26 of the Constitution. This report, Bangladesh: Interim Govt Fails Constitution Compliance Test On Fundamental Rights, shows as to how the Interim Government failed to protect fundamental rights and how it […]
The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has urged Bhutan to implement the recommendations of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention which has submitted its final report after visiting the country in January 2019 to assess situation regarding the deprivation of liberty. The Working Group has submitted its final report to the UN […]
Pakistan has turned into a prison for Aasia Bibi. After acquittal by the Supreme Court from concocted blasphemy charges on 31 October 2018, the government of Pakistan entered into an agreement with the Tehreek-e-Labaik to place her name on the Exit Control List to prevent her from leaving the country which is indispensable to protect […]
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 […]
Maharashtra has been at the forefront of the leading initiatives against female foeticide. It was the first State in India to enact a law to protect the female foetus by enacting the Maharashtra Regulation of Use of PreNatal Diagnostic Techniques Act in 1987, much before the enactment of the Prevention of Misuse of Pre-Natal Diagnostic […]
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 […]
