Legality of NHRC chief’s appointment challenged
A Supreme Court lawyer today filed a writ petition with the High Court challenging legality of Kazi Reazul Hoque’s appointment
2016 ANNI Report on the Performance and Establishment of National Human Rights Institutions in Asia
The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, as the Secretariat of the Asian NGO Network on National Human Rights
‘End repression in Kashmir’: Statement by Activists
With life in the Kashmir Valley at a near-standstill for about four months, close to 200 activists, academics, lawyers, prominent
SAHR observes with great concern the alarming deterioration of the relations between India and Pakistan
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), the regional human rights organisation observes with great concern the alarming deterioration of the
South Asia: People’s SAARC Statement on the Cancellation of the 19th SAARC Summit
People’s SAARC, a regional network of progressive South Asian people’s movements and mass organisations, is deeply dismayed at the cancellation
The curse of triple talaaq
The Radiance is a weekly journal of the Jamaat-e-Islamia, a fundamentalist organisation. It carries on its front page an article
SAHR welcomes the report of the joint mission by UNESCO and IUCN on the current state of conservation of the Sundarbans
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) welcomes the report of the fact finding mission (http://whc.unesco.org/en/documents/148097) jointly conducted by UNESCO and
Challenge of torture by police
THE recently released report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) titled This Crooked System: Police Abuse and Reform in Pakistan, broadly
SAHR expresses concern over govt’s uncompromising stance
A regional human rights organisation expressed its deep concern on Sunday over the government’s uncompromising stance to proceed with the
Should we rethink Kashmir?
PRIME MINISTER Nawaz Sharif has perhaps done all that he could to draw the international community’s attention to the Kashmiri