Southeast Asian leaders at their annual summit should drastically rethink their response to the plight of Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya, Human Rights Watch said today. The 10 leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are scheduled to meet…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, is deeply concerned about the filing of a First Information Report (FIR) against the Lawyers Collective (LC) alleging violations of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 2010,…
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has expressed deep concern over the delay in forcefully displaced Rohingyas repatriation from Bangladesh to Myanmar. He expressed the concern at a meeting with State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam in New…
A meeting of regional networks was organised by South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) to develop a regional agenda for collective advocacy on Human Rights, Peace and Democracy in South Asia and was held on 12 and 13 of…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, condemns the use of live ammunition by the Pakistan army against activists of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) in North Waziristan. SAHR has learnt that the…
NEW YORK: The Myanmar military units, which committed war crimes against Rohingya Muslims in 2017, are still committing atrocities against the minority group, according to a new report from Amnesty International, a leading human rights group. The report says…
BY PRARTHANA MITRA Twitter/@TostevinM Jailed for over 500 days for reporting on Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis, award-winning Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were released by a presidential pardon Tuesday. This came mere days after World Press Freedom Day, which was…
Killing of 6 Villagers in Rakhine State Should be Fully, Credibly Investigated (New York) – Myanmar authorities should independently investigate the killing of detainees held by the military in Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 2, 2019, army…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, request the Government of Bangladesh to immediately ensure the safety and security of eminent human right activist, Sultana Kamal, and two others, who received death threats…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, is disappointed of the decision taken by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 12 April 2019 to not investigate the situation in Afghanistan, pursuant to Article…