With life in the Kashmir Valley at a near-standstill for about four months, close to 200 activists, academics, lawyers, prominent journalists and other members of civil society such as Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Harsh Mander and Vrinda Grover have endorsed…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), the regional human rights organisation observes with great concern the alarming deterioration of the relations between India and Pakistan. Consequently, the cross border firing has now become routine activity. Civilians and soldiers of…
People’s SAARC, a regional network of progressive South Asian people’s movements and mass organisations, is deeply dismayed at the cancellation of the 19th South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit which was scheduled to be held in Pakistan…
The Radiance is a weekly journal of the Jamaat-e-Islamia, a fundamentalist organisation. It carries on its front page an article which says: First, you give us account. Apparently, it means the Hindus. The article is on triple talaaq. The…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) welcomes the report of the fact finding mission (http://whc.unesco.org/en/documents/148097) jointly conducted by UNESCO and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to assess the current state of conservation of the Sundarbans,…
THE recently released report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) titled This Crooked System: Police Abuse and Reform in Pakistan, broadly focuses on two areas: a) police misuse of force including brutal methods of torture and b) weak capacity and…
A regional human rights organisation expressed its deep concern on Sunday over the government’s uncompromising stance to proceed with the construction of the Rampal power plant, situated close to Sundarbans, a Ramsar and World Heritage Site. The group, South…
PRIME MINISTER Nawaz Sharif has perhaps done all that he could to draw the international community’s attention to the Kashmiri people’s ordeal. He and members of his large entourage spoke of India-held Kashmir to whoever they met in New…
To the people of the older generation in Pakistan and India, the present level of confrontation between their countries, especially the war of words between their media persons, sounds like a steep fall from the standards of mutual understanding…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), the regional network of human rights defenders is extremely concerned of the uncompromising stance taken by the government of Bangladesh to proceed with the construction of the 1,320MW coal power plant in Rampal,…