Express news service : Gandhinagar, March 31 The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had written a detailed letter to the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee stating how reputations of the institutions of governance and justice were at stake if victims… Continue Reading →
Heidelberg, 13 March 2012 – A ground-breaking new human rights instrument, the “Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,” has been launched at the UN in Geneva. In order to address… Continue Reading →
Arun Ferriera who spent four years in prison shares his experinces of torture and struggle for human rights inside prison. He was speaking at the Human Rights Education Seminar, at St Pius College, organised by the South Asian Human righst education… Continue Reading →
Inviting Written Submissions – The Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW Committee) Asia Pacific Regional Consultation for the Proposed General Recommendation on Human Rights of Women in Situations of Conflict and Post Conflict Dear Friends, CEDAW Committee’s Asia… Continue Reading →
By Meredith Tax (WOMENSENEWS)– Salafi mobs have caned women in Tunisian cafes and Egyptian shops; attacked churches in Egypt; taken over whole villages in Tunisia and shut down that country’s Manouba University for two months in an effort to exert… Continue Reading →
Separate Between Religion and State Having experienced the ways in which religious fundamentalists have used both armed violence and state power to attack fundamental freedoms, we want to express our alarm at the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and other… Continue Reading →
Asis Pacific Forum ( APF Bulletin) January 2012 Pakistan’s National Assembly has unanimously passed a bill to establish an independent human rights institution (NHRI) with wide judicial powers. The passage of the bill on 21 December 2011 follows years… Continue Reading →
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