Articles by Asian Centre for Human Rights
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India Is Losing the Battle against Female Foeticide
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
3 Nov 2016 – The 290-page report, “The State of the PC&PNDT Act: India’s losing battle against female foeticide”, is the first ever comprehensive study on the status of implementation of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques.
→ read full articleFemale Infanticide Worldwide: The Case for Action by the UN Human Rights Council
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
India ranked No.4, Liechtenstein No.1 in skewed child sex ratio at birth. Releasing its report, “Female Infanticide Worldwide”, the first ever global study on the issue, ACHR stated that female infanticide for son preference due to variety of reasons is a worldwide phenomenon with 1.5 million female foetuses being aborted every year.
→ read full articleWill Suu Kyi Pose a Threat to a Democratic Myanmar?
Suhas Chakma, Asian Centre for Human Rights – Bangkok Post,
23 Nov 2015
Since her release from house arrest, Ms Suu Kyi has shown glimpses of authoritarianism. While she may still find a rubber-stamp president, the rule of the majority is unlikely to be handy for dealing with the ethnic minorities who have been waging wars against the majority Burmese for the past five decades.
→ read full articleOur Standards and Their Standards: India vs Abolitionist Countries [Death Penalty]
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
This report is being published by the “National Campaign for Abolition of Death Penalty in India”. It shows that there are countries with fewer resources than India which faced far more protracted and deadly insurgencies and acts of terrorism but did not feel the necessity to use death penalty to ensure national security. These countries are mainly in Asia including Philippines, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
→ read full articleThe Rohingyas: UN and Bangladesh Making Them Easy Prey to Traffickers and Terrorists?
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
That the UN and the Government of Bangladesh have been making the Rohingyas easy prey to the traffickers and terrorist groups and further that the fleeing Rohingyas have turned into perpetrators of human rights violations on the indigenous Jumma peoples of Bangladesh have been consistently ignored and/or overlooked.
→ read full articleIndia: Call to End Imposition of Death Penalty
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
2 June 2015 – Report released today called for an end to imposition of death penalty by majority view of the judges of the High Courts and the Supreme Court of India. “The ratio of differences of opinion among the judges whether somebody convicted for offences punishable with death should die or live in most cases in India is 2:1. When this difference of opinion is also between acquittal and death sentence, imposition of death penalty by majority opinion becomes legally untenable and morally unconscionable.”
→ read full articleIndia: Fifty Shades of Terror
Suhas Chakma - Asian Centre for Human Rights,
26 Jan 2015
The massacre of the Adivasis shows once again India’s typical responses to terror. There is the usual failure to prevent terror even when there are actionable inputs. Once killings start, security forces seldom respond on time to prevent further killings.
→ read full articlePresident Mukherjee Rejects 97% of Mercy Pleas as India Gives Two Death Sentences Each Day
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
The empirical evidence establishes that death penalty does not act as deterrent. ACHR called upon the Government of India to amend all laws that provide death penalty and replace them with imprisonment for life.
→ read full articleBangladesh Sending Its Death Squads for the UN Peacekeeping Missions
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Serving in a UN peacekeeping mission is deemed so lucrative [as a Bangladesh Army officer earn upwards of US $2,200 a month in addition to other allowances and parks for an officer against Taka 15,000 (about US $200) for an officer in the country and US $1,100 for a soldier, against Taka 7,717 (about US $100)] that Bangladesh Army has systematically monopolised the UN postings.
→ read full articleNepal: Regmi Is Becoming an Obstacle – International Community Must Help Organize Free and Fair Elections
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2013
“The consequences of not holding or not being able to hold elections are more anarchy. The impatience with Khil Raj Regmi government including by four big political parties will grow while Regmi’s tenure as Chief Justice will expire in June 2014.
→ read full articleIndia’s Child Soldiers: Thousands Recruited, Government Defends Record of Terror Groups before UN Child Rights Committee
Asian Centre for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today released its report, “India’s Child Soldiers” (http://achrweb.org/reports/india/JJ-IndiasChildSoldiers2013.pdf), the first ever comprehensive study on the subject in India, and accused the Government of India of defending the records of the armed opposition groups, officially designated as terrorist groups, on the recruitment of child soldiers before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
→ read full articleIndia: 48,338 Child Rape Cases from 2001 to 2011
Asian Centre for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
336% Increase of Child Rape Cases from 2001 to 2011 – Asian Centre for Human Rights in its report, “India’s Hell Holes: Child Sexual Assault in Juvenile Justice Homes” stated that sexual offences against children in India have reached an epidemic proportion and a large number of them are being committed in the juvenile justice homes run and aided by the Government of India.
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