South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) is pleased to release the report on the “Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in South Asia: Justiciability and Beyond”, the second phase of its efforts to increase justiciability of ESCR cases in South…
The hospital had allegedly refused to provide ambulance to a seriously injured accident victim The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has ordered an inquiry against a private hospital which denied ambulance to transport a youth who was seriously injured…
17 July 2017 South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) is pleased to release the publication “Nation State Boundaries and Human Rights of People in South Asia” based on its study of cross border issues by Shomona Khanna, a researcher and a…
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was established in 2006, replacing the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR). The creation of UNHRC marks one of the major reforms ever undertaken in the United Nations (UN) since its…
The International Movement against all forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR) together with South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) organised a round table discussion on ‘Religious extremism in the South Asian Region: Safe Guarding Minorities’ on 28 April 2017…
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…
Two groups of Human Rights Defenders from South Asia carried out two peace missions to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The Fundamental objective of this initiative was to bring women into the mainstream security discourse in order to improve the…
By: Hameeda Hossain SAHR KHATMANDU 25 FEBRUARY 2016 Some years ago many of us from South Asia met in Nirmana, an old fort in Rajasthan, and decided to work together towards social and political change, that would make our…
The objective of consultation was to facilitate discussion among experts on the theme, review and analyse the political and other dimensions of the security crisis in the region and to make recommendations to ensure that gender perspective is fully…
SAHR is currently conducting its second peace mission from 19 – 21 December 2015 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. To start off, the peace mission is meeting with Sri Lankan civil society working on peace, transitional justice and reconciliation. …