The Fundamental objective of SAHR’s South Asian Peace Missions is to bring women into the mainstream security discourse in order to improve the prospects of peace not only at the national level but to create greater discourse on regional…
Kumari Jayawardena and Rachel Kurian have uncovered the injustices heaped upon the plantation community of immigrant Tamil and oppressed caste origin by the powerful – while recovering their individual and collective acts of resistance in the struggle for human…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, launches today the report of the fact finding mission “Nepal Blockade – A Humanitarian Crisis amidst Diplomatic Kerfuffle” conducted in the Nepal-India borders from 10-14 January…
Obsession with the geostrategic has been deeply rooted in the ethos of the Pakistani state since its very inception. The survival instincts of a fragile new state probably necessitated it. But the geostrategic theories of the colonial ideologues also…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a network of human rights defenders based in seven countries in South Asia, is deeply concerned about the arrest and detention of Mr. Kanak Mani Dixit, an eminent journalist and pro-democracy and human…
Equality for all: 50 organisations launch Haji Ali Sabke liye movement More than 50 organisations and prominent personalities on Wednesday launched a movement, Haji Ali sabke liye, demanding women be allowed in the dargah located at Worli.They came under…
Concerns with regard to early recall from medical leave given to three Maldivian political detainees have been brought to the attention of South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders. SAHR is deeply concerned…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a democratic regional network of human rights defenders, condemns the launching of a civil suit against the lawyer and SAHR bureau member Vrinda Grover by Rajendra K. Pachauri, former head of the U.N.’s…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) expresses its severe shock and vehement condemnation at the gruesome killing of Nazimuddin Samad, a 28 year old law student and secular activist on 7 April. According to the police he was targeted for…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) a regional network of human rights defenders, vehemently condemns the violent police crackdown of the peaceful sit –in protest carried out by journalists in front of the President’s office and the arrest of…