On 29.01.2014, Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) a Dalit identified as U Ezhumalai (35) was beaten to dead by upper caste people at Gandhinagar village in Thiruvanainallur in Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu on 16.01.2014. The deceased friend identified as Ayyapan also sustained injuries in […]
On 26.04.2013, Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the death of Shebaram Reang (23), s/o Sotrogun Reang due to alleged torture in the custody of Mizoram Police and India Reserve Police at Kanhmun police station in Mamit district, Mizoram on 20.04.2013. The NHRC registered […]
On 23.4.2013, Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) alleging that a prisoner Somla Naik died on 18.4.2013 due to torture at the Central Prison Warangal. Naik was arrested by the Excise Police on 16.4.2013 on the charge of possessing illicit distilled liquor. He was remanded […]
The interventions of the Asian Centre for Human Rights led to the rescue of two Scheduled Tribe girls of Assam, aged 12 years and 19 years, and their reunion with their families after they were abducted and trafficked to Mumbai in 2012. The tribal girls namely Dibya Devi Chakma (12 years), d/o Natun Chandra Chakma […]
On 1 May 2013, Asian Centre for Human Rights filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the death of tribal children due to malnutrition at Attappady in Palakkar district of Kerala till 17 April 2013. Attappady consists of 171 hamlets. The valley is mostly inhabited by Muduga, Irula and Kurumba tribal […]
On 12 October 2011, Asian Centre for Human Rights filed a complaint with the NHRC with respect to the custodial death of Lallu Nayka (42 years) at Pardi police station in Valasad district of Gujarat on 22 September 2011. He was reportedly a witness in an unsolved murder case. On the night of 21 September […]
On 23 April 2013, Asian Centre for Human Rights filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the custodial death of Virendra Kumar Mishra due to alleged torture at Hasanganj Police station in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh on the night of 18 April 2013. The deceased was picked up for interrogation in a […]
The problem of female foeticide or sex selection in India is acute in India. The invention of technology i.e. ultrasonography for pre-natal sex determination in 1980s replaced intentional killing of infant girls with sex selective abortion of female foetuses. Since 1990s various studies recognised female infanticide as a serious problem with reduction of women in […]
This report chronicles as to how the United Nations Human Rights Council considered the issue of female foeticide in India under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of India’s human rights record during the third cycle of the UPR held in May 2017. In its National report, the Government of India raised the issue and that […]
