About 13,48,481 girls went missing in Uttar Pradesh during 2001 to 2011 as per 2011 census. Uttar Pradesh recorded the 10th lowest Child Sex Ratio (CSR) of 902 girls per 1000 boys in the age group of 0-6 years among 35 States and Union Territories (UTs) against all India CSR of 919 during 2011 census. […]
Days after a series of attacks on Africans just an hour’s drive from capital New Delhi and a sharp barb by foreign diplomats, the Indian government rejected that the incidents were racist in nature, pending an investigation. On this edition of We The People, we ask: Are we in denial when we say that India […]
As per census from 1981 to 2011, India’s only Muslim majority State Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) had recorded the highest decline in the Child Sex Ratio (CSR) by 102 points followed by tiny Dadra & Nagar Haveli (69 points), Haryana (68 points), Rajasthan (66 points), Himachal Pradesh (62 points) and Punjab (62 points), among others. […]
New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today welcomed the commutation of death sentence of four death row convicts i.e. Krishna Mochi, Nanhe Lal Mochi, Bir Kuer Paswan and Dharmendra Singh @ Dharu Singh by President Pranab Mukherjee. They were convicted in the Bara massacre case of 13 February 1993 in Bihar. The State Government […]
India is fighting a losing battle against sex selection because of son preference, dowry, neglect of girl child, higher mortality at younger age, female infanticide, female foeticide etc. According to the estimates of Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), during 1991 to 2011 a total of 250 million girls or 12.5 million girls per […]
New Delhi: The State Government of Manipur provided compensation of Rs. 5.5 lakhs to the next of kin of Chongkham Sanjit Singh, a victim of extrajudicial execution following directions of the National Human Rights Commission acting on a complaint filed by Asian Centre for Human Rights on 3 August 2009. On 23 July 2009, Chongkham Sanjit Singh, […]
