New Delhi, Dec 23 (ANI): The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today stated that unless India reverses its current policy of putting all its eggs on the Nepal Army and its cohorts, the escalating violence and the resulting anarchy in Nepal may even [...]
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Asian rights body to visit communal-hit areas in Mizoram
New Delhi, Nov.27 (ANI): The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today accepted the offer of the Mizoram Home Minister Pu R. Lalzirliana to visit Mizoram from 4 to 11 December 2009 or any other dates convenient to the State government.
In a press held in Aizawl on 22 November 2009 in response to the [...]
Asian rights body demands CBI probe into Brus attacks in Mizoram
New Delhi, Nov.20 (ANI): The Asian Centre for Human Rights today urged Home Minister P. Chidambaram to order an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the killing of one Mizo youth identified as Zarzokima on November 13 and the subsequent burning [...]
ACHR welcomes NHRC order to Assam to pay compensation to families of victims killed by police
New Delhi, Oct.12 (ANI): The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today welcomed the order of the National Human Rights Commission of 7th October 2009 to award compensation of Rs five lakhs each to the families of Ram Singh Chauhan [...]
Orissa pays compensation for custodial death of a prisoner
New Delhi, Sep.14 (ANI): The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today welcomed the payment of compensation of Rs 100,000 by the Orissa government to the family members of Takala alias Muktikanta Muduli, an undertrial prisoner who died in Balasore District jail of Orissa on 29 August 2007.
The National Human Rights Commission informed the [...]
Sri Lanka’s expulsion of UNICEF official is a clear warning to all UN agencies: ACHR
New Delhi/Colombo, Sep.7 (ANI): A New Delhi-based human rights watchdog has said that the expulsion of a senior UNICEF official by the Government of Sri Lanka “is a clear warning to the UN agencies and all relief workers not to speak out about the situation of 300,000 Tamils who are being interned.”
Suhas Chakma, Director of [...]
Naxals condemned for massacre of civilians in Jharkhand
New Delhi, Sep 7 (ANI): Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today condemned the killing of five innocent villagers, including two students by the cadres of the Communist Party of India (Maoists) at Pundigiri in Ranchi district of Jharkhand on [...]
