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
New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights welcomed the commutation of death sentence of Surinder Singh Koli, prime accused of the Nithari serial killings, into life imprisonment by the Allahabad High Court today on the grounds of delay of three years and three months as a step towards providing timely access to justice to death row […]
New Delhi: Releasing its 360 page report, “Torture: India’s Self Made Hurdle to Extradition” (https://www.achrweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IndiaRefoulement.pdf) analysing judgments of the foreign courts on India’s extradition requests, the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) stated that diplomatic assurances on improving prison conditions are not sufficient to extradite fugitives like Vijay Mallya.. During the hearing, Mallya, inter alia, […]
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 […]
