Pakistan’s dangerous anti-terrorism law
Published in “The Express Tribune” on July, 20th :: Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain on July 11 gave Pakistani citizens a new reason to fear the country’s security forces. He signed […]
Amnesty International India urges to frame clear policies to prevent violence against children in schools
Published in DNA India on July 19th :: The rape of a six-year-old student in a private school in Bangalore has brought to light the need for clear guidelines and […]
Human rights in tatters
Published in Times of India, July 19th. GANDHINAGAR: The rise in number of complaints alleging human rights violation in Gujarat is disquieting. The annual report of the Gujarat State Human […]
Women trafficking
Source Article: Daily Times, Pakistan Called one of the modern forms of slavery, human trafficking affects 2.5 million people around the world, most of them women and children. Nearly every […]
Don’t Resume Executions – HRW Asks of Pakistan
Pakistan’s government should revoke its decision to resume executions and renew its moratorium on the death penalty, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists said in a joint […]
International Commission of Jurists and Human Rights Watch Ask Pakistan to Avoid Resuming Death Penalty
The International Commission of Jurists and Human Rights Watch, in a joint statement ask the Government of Pakistan to reconsider resuming the death penalty. Reproduced below is the statement. Honorable […]
Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha seek National Human Rights Commission Help in Public Humiliation, Molestation of Woman
The Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) has written to the Bangladeshi National Human Rights Commission asking that it intervene in the case of the public humiliation and molestation of a […]
Arrest Commanding Officers in Weliweriya Incident – AHRC
The Asian Human Rights Commission has called for the arrest of commanding officers of the Sri Lanka Army following the incident of August 1st 2013, in Rathupaswala, Weliweriya in which […]
Sri Lanka should order independent and transparent inquiry into the deaths of protesters at Weliweriya – HRW
Human Rights Watch, an independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights, has issued a statement calling for the Government of Sri Lanka to order an independent and transparent […]
Prominent Human Rights Defender Adilur Rahman Khan arrested in Bangladesh
Adilur Rahman Khan, a respected human rights defender in Bangladesh was picked up from his residence in Dhaka on the 10th of August by officers from the Detective Branch of […]