The attacks on indigenous peoples in Sajek, in Rangamati District of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), on 22 October 2026 brought into focus the policy pursued by Bangladesh in this troubled region. Since 11 October 2026, Indigenous peoples under the banner of the Sajek Gono Odhikar Rokkha Committee and the Sajek Karbari Association have been […]
While the dismissal of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) provincial government, led by the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), on 11 July 2026 under Articles 232 and 234 of the Constitution of Pakistan raised questions about the status of democracy in the country, what has gone unnoticed is the de facto and de jure suppression of the […]
As internal armed conflicts intensify in Pakistan, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, enforced disappearances have been skyrocketing. The cases of enforced disappearances in Balochistan surged by over 308% in 2025 (1,482 cases) compared with 2020 (480 cases). This trend continues in 2026 with 793 cases of enforced disappearances from January to July 2026 i.e. […]
On 23 September 2026, a man identified as Faizan Shan, reportedly a resident of Chak Dhamni in Rawalakot, was killed and another man travelling with him on a motorcycle was reportedly injured following an incident involving Pakistan Rangers personnel near a checkpoint in the Rawalakot area. According to reports, Rangers personnel opened fire during the […]
In an unprecedented order, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) directed the Chief Secretary, Government of Goa “to arrest and bring the said Secretary, Home Department, Government of Goa before the Commission on 19.9.2018 at 12:00 Noon and return the warrant duly executed on or before 12.9.2018 with an endorsement certifying the day on which […]
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 […]
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 […]
Among the States and Union Territories (UTs) of India, Punjab has the second worst record of Child Sex Ratio of 846 girls per 100 boys and third worst record in skewed sex ratio of 895 females per 100 males as per Census 2011. The CSR of Punjab has consistently decreased from 908 in 1981 Census […]
Female foeticide because of preference for boys over girls for a host of reasons is gigantic in India. According to the estimates of Asian Centre for Human Rights, during 1991 to 2011, a total of 25,49,3,480 girls went missing primarily as a result of sex selection. The child sex ratio (CSR) in India has […]
On 21 June 2018, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) directed the State Government of Mizoram through its Chief Secretary to pay Rs. 3 lakhs to next of kin (NoK) of deceased Shebaram Reang who was tortured to death in the custody of Mizoram police and India Reserve Police at Kanhmun police station in Mamit […]
In its latest proceedings held in June 2018, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) directed the State Government of Tripura through its Chief Secretary to show cause as to why the Commission should not recommend compensation of Rs 5 lakhs to be paid to the next of kin (NoK) of the deceased, Shankar Dev, who […]
In its latest proceedings held on 15.05.2018, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) directed the State Government of West Bengal through its Chief Secretary to show cause as to why it should not recommend compensation to a minor girl, who was raped by a police officer at a police barrack in Cooch Behar district, West […]
A/HRC/63/NGO/170: Written statement submitted by Asian Centre for Human Rights, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status can be accessed here
Regarding interventions against handing over of the administration of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) to the DGFI, mandating the State sponsored vigilante group PCJSS to draft anti-terrorism policy, extending democracy denied for the last 37 years further and continuing acts of racial discrimination by providing free food rations to implanted majority plain settlers in the […]
THE WEEK 05 September 2019 New Delhi, Sep 5 (PTI) The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a plea seeking direction to the Centre to enact a suitable stand alone comprehensive legislation based on UN Convention on custodial torture, observing that it is under the government’s “active consideration”. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi rejected […]
As the UNESCO’s 47th Session of the World Heritage Committee takes place in Paris till 16 July 2025, the betrayal of indigenous peoples living in the World Heritage sites of the UNESCO, where they often become victims of forced evictions, torture, extrajudicial executions, sexual violence etc, has come to the fore. I. UNESCO BLOCKING THE […]
