UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres yesterday launched a new global strategy to combat hate speech, a growing scourge he said has “poisoned” debate on crucial challenges like migration. Guterres announced the effort, which will be led by his special…
The ravishing Kashmir valley has suffered waves of intense unrest and sporadic violence since 1947. Three generations of Kashmiri populace have witnessed the horrors of conflict. Not only Kashmiris, people of the South Asian region are also the immediate…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, welcomes all efforts aiming to speed up and enhance the peace process in Afghanistan including the recent meeting in Moscow held on 5th and 6th of…
Global probe into HR violations in IOK demandedSrinagar, February 20 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the Joint Resistance Leadership has said that India cannot stifle the voice for freedom by resorting to aggressive policies and imposing ban on political opponents…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, strongly condemns the cases filed against and imminent arrest of reputed author and Dalit scholar Prof. Anand Teltumbde. Prof. Anand Teltumbde, is currently a senior professor at…
‘We the Rohingya have been subjected to a textbook genocide which has gradually escalated since my childhood’ The Free Rohingya Coalition (FRC), a leading global activist group led by and for the Rohingya people, is set to host a…
Colombo, 30 January 2019 We, members of civil society networks of South Asia gathered in Colombo to deliberate on a South Asian Regional Agenda for Collective Advocacy on Human Rights, Peace and Democracy,* have resolved to re-energise collaborations across…
Frequent clashes between Myanmar security forces and Buddhist rebels in Rakhine state have spread alarm among thousands of Rohingya refugees living in no-man’s-land on the country’s border with Bangladesh, as concerns grow over the intensified fighting. More than 730,000…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, vehemently condemns the attack on the motorcade of the Jatiya Oikyafront leader and senior lawyer Dr Kamal Hossain on 14 December 2018 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dr.…
The UN has located major areas where there is violation of human right in various States. For that there is the United Nations Centre for Human Rights (UNCHR) as a focal body for all activities in connection with human…