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 […]
‘If a conservative estimate of 15% is used in “bribes to process applications” then during the FYs 2002-2003 to 2008-2009 at least Rs 998,15,38,153 or Rs. 142,59,34,022 per year were removed from funds to the poor and given in bribes to different layers of officials approving the projects. This is literally stealing the money of […]
India is infamous for female foeticide. It has been witnessing consistent fall in the child sex ratio (CSR): from 976 in 1961 to 964 in 1971 to 962 in 1981 to 945 in 1991 to 927 in 2001 and 919 in 2011. Before the invention of technology for sex determination, India’s CSR was 976 in […]
