30 May 2008 | SAHRDC – South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
India
Article on the investigations on the case of the Punjab mass cremations during the 1980ies
A Step Forward in the Punjab Cremations Case [HRF/184/08] (Appeal or News Release, English)
30 April 2008 | SAHRDC – South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
India
Article on situation of Tibetan refugees in India: Tibetan communities, legal status of Tibetans, restriction Tibetan refugees' rights
Tibetan Refugees in India; Declining Sympathies, Diminishing Rights [HRF/183/08] (Appeal or News Release, English)
19 March 2008 | SAHRDC – South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
India
Information on anticipatory bail in Uttar Pradesh: Definition of anticipatory bail and background information on the law and its use
Anticipatory bail in Uttar Pradesh [HRF/182/08] (Appeal or News Release, English)
9 February 2008 | SAHRDC – South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
India
Article on current situation in Central India, Chhattisgarh State: Historical development of civil war, fighting factions and their demands, situation in refugee camps, role of government and its failure of disarming terror groups
Chhattisgarh: State opts out as private army steps in (Appeal or News Release, English)
11 January 2008 | SAHRDC – South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
Sri Lanka
On 2 January 2008, government called off 2002 ceasefire agreement with Tamil rebels; abrogation of the agreement is likely to result in an escalation of violence
Renewed need for independent human rights presence [HRF/180/08] (Appeal or News Release, English)
26 December 2007 | SAHRDC – South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
Bangladesh
Reason for approval of international community on Bangladeshi emergency state remains questionable as it offers constitutional breaches; government has failed to give reason for prolonging of emergency state beyond April 2007; there have been reports of 153 extrajudicial executions in 10 months of emergency
Our kind of emergency: The world believes – wrongly – that the Bangladesh crisis is ‘different’ (Appeal or News Release, English)
15 November 2007 | SAHRDC – South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
India
SAHRDC calls for the National Human Rights Commission of India to take action in disability rights
Disability Rights Convention: Opportunities for India’s NHRC [HRF/177/07] (Appeal or News Release, English)
31 October 2007 | SAHRDC – South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
India
According to SAHRDC, India fails to meet the demands of the Indian public opinion to pressure the Burmese military junta
Marching in step with Burma’s generals [HRF/176/07] (Appeal or News Release, English)
12 October 2007 | SAHRDC – South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
Myanmar
SAHRDC calls international community "disappointingly passive and formulaic" over last weeks' events, says as long as rest of world does not interfere, secret detentions, extrajudicial executions, forced labour and repression of minorities will persist
Western Shadowboxing Sustains Military Junta [HRF/175/07] (Appeal or News Release, English)
26 September 2007 | SAHRDC – South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
India
Country's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has failed to hold government accountable for its record on human rights, says South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC)
NHRC Fails to Use Its Meagre Powers [HRF/174/07] (Appeal or News Release, English)
