H. E Maithirpala SirisenaThe PresidentPresidential Secretariat,Colombo 01, Sri Lanka. Your Excellency, SAHR expresses concerns on your call for reviving the use of the death penalty for drug-related offenses On behalf of the South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, is deeply concerned of the plight of Indian and Pakistani fishermen who are arrested for trespassing the territorial waters, subjected to prolonged detention and in some…
‘Our report observes that no steps have been taken to adequately address the issue of citizenship of the Rohingya people’ United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said the Myanmar authorities continue violating the fundamental and human…
Bureau members of the South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) met with the foreign Minister of Maldives HE Abdulla Shahid on 17 March 2019 during their visit to the country. The delegation conveyed its congratulations to the Government of…
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s army said on Monday it had set up a military court to investigate its conduct during a crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority in 2017 that forced more than 730,000 to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh.Aerial…
Sharifah Shakirah, who helps improve the lives of Rohingya women in Malaysia, has been nominated as Malaysia’s candidate for the US Department of State’s International Women of Courage award. In a statement, the US embassy said US Ambassador Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir…
In international relations there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies, but it is evident beyond the shred of doubt that for the last 70 years Pakistan and Indo-Pakistan india relations haves been in the doldrums, and clouds…
In a significant order, the Central Information Commission (CIC), has directed the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to provide the complete list with full details of arrested Indian and Pakistani civilians and fishermen to a Mumbai RTI activist within four weeks. The CIC’s directions came…
We, undersigned regional networks and organisations, request both India and Pakistan to immediately de-escalate tensions and end the present dangerous impasse. The reasons for the present escalation is well known and we believe that such instances would recur without…
A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer went missing after he was scheduled to be released from jail Thursday following a two-year prison sentence for state subversion charges, said rights activists. Jiang Tianyong — who had taken on many high-profile cases including those of Falun Gong…