Documented incidents of extremism from November 2021 to March 2022 The Taliban government has announced the establishment of a military tribunal to implement religious law in Afghanistan.[1] Human Rights Watch in a report has claimed that more than 100…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, expresses concern over the US government’s decision to dispense $7 billion in Afghan assets, now frozen in the United States (US)., to be used for humanitarian aid…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, expresses concern over the statement issued by the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry on 4, February 2022 as a response to the statement made by a prominent…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of Human Rights Defenders is deeply concerned of the forcible disappearance of Tamana Zaryab Paryani and Parwana Ibrahimkhil, two women’s rights activists along with several of their family members on…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, is deeply alarmed and concerned by the rising explicit intolerance against minorities especially Muslims, and the ongoing crackdown on human rights organisations in India. In…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, deliberates on the ever delayed justice for the slain and disappeared journalists in Sri Lanka. The thirteenth death anniversary of Lasantha Wickrematunge, the slain journalist falls…
Ladies stripped and paraded, hundreds of rapes taped, a person burnt to death, but the business mill continues. While random unverified tweets claim that Pakistan’s exports orders are suffering in the aftermath of the horrific Sialkot incident, all stakeholders contacted…
In the 1990s, India liberalised its economy, paving the way for more private investment. For the next two decades, India grew at a rapid pace, lifting millions out of poverty. Many in the 2000s considered India the next ‘Asian…
On December 10, 2019, Abubacarr Tambadou, then Gambia’s justice minister, posed a question to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. “Why is the world standing by and allowing such horrors again in our lifetime?” It was the first…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, vehemently condemns the vigilante attack on the Sri Lankan Migrant worker Priyantha Diyawadana who was subjected to a mob lynching and being burned alive in public…