Bangladesh ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) on 6th September 2000. In the last fourteen and half years, Bangladesh has not even submitted its Initial Report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee. In this submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which is holding its 113th Session from 16 […]
NEW DELHI: The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today called upon members of the United Nations Security Council to hold an emergency session on the situation in the Maldives following sentencing of former President Mohammed Nasheed to 13 years imprisonment under trumped up terrorism charges and urged the members of the UN Security Council to […]
NEW DELHI: Asian Centre for Human Rights in its report, “Bangladesh: Polarisation, Political Violence & an Undeclared Civil War”, released today stated that about 90 people have been killed and more than a thousand were injured in the ongoing violent anti-government protests by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led 20-party alliance demanding resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s […]
New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights welcomed the commutation of death sentence of Surinder Singh Koli, prime accused of the Nithari serial killings, into life imprisonment by the Allahabad High Court today on the grounds of delay of three years and three months as a step towards providing timely access to justice to death row […]
NDTV Published on : December 2, 2014 Fighting the Maoists: Time for a new approach? As India pays tribute to 14 CRPF men who lost their lives in a Maoist ambush in Chhattisgarh on Monday, we ask whether it’s time to radically change the approach to dealing with Naxals. Delhi church fire: More attempts to […]
Despite a return to democracy in December 1990, the Bangladesh Army remains “the power behind the throne” in Dhaka. Its control over the security forces is absolute. A large number of senior positions in the Bangladesh Navy and Bangladesh Air Force are served by Army officers as per Section 2A of the Army Act of […]
Since 1960, Nigeria has been one of the United Nations’ (UN) largest troop contributing countries. Throughout these years, Nigerian forces have been regularly accused of corruption and human rights abuses. For example in 2005, 11 Nigerian policemen serving on a UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were withdrawn over sexual harassment […]
NewsX Published on Feb 1, 2014 In a gruesome incident, a boy from Arunachal Pradesh, Nido Taniam, was allegedly beaten to death in Delhi. The incident took place on Wednesday at Lajpat Nagar in Southeast Delhi. Nido Taniam, a student, was the son of an Arunachal MLA. His body is in the mortuary of the […]
As Nepal successfully concluded the second Constituent Assembly elections on 19th November 2013, the Supreme Court in a historic judgement on 2 January 2014 held that general amnesty provided in the ‘Commission of Inquiry on Disappeared Persons, Truth and Reconciliation Ordinance’ of March 2013 is unconstitutional. The Court further held that the merger of two […]
Under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) scrutinises human rights records of all the member States of the United Nations. The UPR was created as a mechanism of the HRC ostensibly to address selectivity and politicization under then UN Commission on Human Rights. Since its first session in […]
