South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, condemns the violence taking place in Delhi where the Muslim community has been especially targeted for the past four days and urges the Central and Delhi…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) seeks an editor to provide a comprehensive content edit on a regional research on religious intolerance conducted particularly in Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, including South Asian regional trends…
Pro-democracy protesters from HK Alliance hold placards of detained rights activists as they march towards the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong on February 19, 2020 AFP UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet stressed the need for urgent action on…
Physical punishment including caning, squatting, and frog-marching is nothing new to primary and high school students in the conservative nation of 168 million people. PHOTO: AFP DHAKA: Bangladeshi authorities have suspended a high school headmaster who cut the hair…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), expresses its heartfelt condolences to the family, relatives and friends of the late Justice (R) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim, former chief election commissioner of Pakistan, upon his death on Tuesday, 7 January , 2020.It…
The new year and in fact a new decade have dawned under dark clouds in the region and the world more broadly. The concluding weeks of the last year have seen major protests in India against the worrying Citizenship…
The recent on-going genocide on the Rohingya community comprising a major Muslim population has risen ample of questions on Human Rights Violation. While the uproars are on peak on social media and among public intellectuals across the world against…
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation might have turned 35 but its three-and-a-half decades of existence has largely failed to advance its own central tenet—regional cooperation. As SAARC marked its 35th anniversary with a flurry of congratulatory messages from heads…
Rights activists, academics and artists of South Asia have declared a democracy emergency in the region.The declaration came after a careful examination of curbs on freedom of expression and association in the region, in a regional consultation that held…
Rights activists, academics and artists of South Asia have declared a democracy emergency in the region. The declaration came after a careful examination of curbs on freedom of expression and association in the region, in a regional consultation that…