We the undersigned human rights organizations strongly condemn the ongoing persecution and reprisals by Sri Lankan authorities against student leaders, labour union leaders, teachers, academics, and others involved in recent protests against education policies in the country. Sri Lankan…
We mourn the loss of Kamla Bhasin, feminist activist, writer, poet, mentor and friend who left us on September 25. Kamla has been a core part of influencing and collaborating with feminist movements in Sri Lanka since the 1980s.…
EVER since last summer when the government applied a historic monetary and fiscal stimulus to the economy a question has hung silently in the air, holding its poise through all the hype along the way around the current account surplus of…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, calls on the Taliban to respect and protect the rights of Afghan women and girls and not to let history repeat itself. We are deeply concerned…
Six months have passed since the military coup in Myanmar. The situation has become a humanitarian crisis as anti- coup protests and violent crackdown continue in the country. So far, more than 1000 people have been killed and many…
ON July 20, Noor Mukaddam, the daughter of a former Pakistani diplomat, was killed in an upscale Islamabad neighbourhood. The incident was particularly reprehensible not only because of its gruesome nature but also because it was yet another example…
I was shocked and deeply repulsed beyond words to witness the apparent coordinated attempts by the administrations of Boris Johnson and Joe Biden at bleaching Myanmar’s international legal crime of genocide on the very day Rohingya survivors around the…