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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 (ACHR) in a press release today stated that Pakistan’s draft resolution against Myanmar tabled at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva yesterday contains factually incorrect information and does not include key issues relating to the Rohingya refugees. The draft resolution (A/HRC/29/L.30 dated 1 July 2015) titled “Situation […]
New Delhi: In response to the letter from the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) on 26 June 2015 concerning the ruling of the Supreme Court of the Maldives against five members of the Human Rights Commission on the unlawfulness of the written submission of the Human Rights Commission of the Maldives (HRCM) to the Second […]
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 […]
(avialable at https://www.achrweb.org/Review/2015/246-15.html) New Delhi: Since the release of ACHR’s briefing paper “ Maldives: The case for a resolution at the 29th session of the UN Human Rights Council ” on 15 June 2015, the Government of Maldives has taken more draconian measures which call for adoption of a resolution at the ongoing session of the UN Human Rights Council. […]
