Prime Minister KP Oli’s spat last week with senior functionaries of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sent alarm bells ringing about the interference by the executive into an independent body responsible for upholding post-conflict transitional justice.
South Asia Citizens Web
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Nepal: Prime Minister signals to the independent National Human Rights Commission to seek prior approval before going public
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India: In Solidarity with all Kashmiri students: An appeal by a group of Kashmiri Pandits
10 April 2016We, as Kashmiri Pandits, are distressed about this politics of hate and revenge. Our first reaction is: Have we lost our mind? Where are we heading with this kind of brazen brutality? Before this unfortunate incident is used to create communal hysteria and detrimental sentiments and further this cycle of violence, we want to tell the people and especially students across the country to refrain from attacking Kashmiri Muslim students. We urge them not to mentally or physically harass Kashmiri students under any circumstance.
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India: Glimpses from Pratirodh - 2, a gathering against attacks on reason, democracy and composite culture (8 April 2016, New Delhi)
8 April 20168 April 2016: Pratirodh II was held "against attacks on reason, democracy and composite culture"; Mavalankar Hall, New Delhi; photos posted below are by Mukul Dube
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India: ‘Anti-national’ has become the handle to snuff out all criticism
by , 8 April 2016Unthinking nationalism is immature because it is bereft of reflection and perilous because it can lead to erosion of liberties
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Bangladesh: UN and EU officials condemn the murder of the blogger Nizamuddin Samad / Fellow Students protest after killing
7 April 2016Nizamuddin Samad, a master’s degree student of Jagannath University in Dhaka who had expressed secular views online, was killed in the capital on Wednesday. The 28-year-old was reported to have been an organiser of the Ganajagran Manch, a secular campaigning group. UN and Eu reps in Bangladesh have reacted to the killing and fellow students have protested.
