Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Universal Periodic Review(UPR), Bangladesh: A Report by Human Rights Forum

    by dristipat, 7 October 2008

    drishtipat.org
    This report has been prepared by the Human Rights Forum, Bangladesh, a coalition of 17 human rights and development organisations formed to prepare a joint stakeholders’ report under the UPR.
    Stakeholders 1. Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), Secretariat 2. Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF) 3. Bangladesh Mohila Parishad (BMP) 4. Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS) 5. Bangladesh Legal Aid & Services Trust (BLAST) 6. Bangladesh Dalit and Excluded Rights Movement (BDERM) (…)

  • Sri Lanka: Breakdown of Law and Order

    by sacw.net, 6 October 2008

    A number of concerned women’s groups and networks join other organisations and individuals who have condemned the recent grenade attack on the residence of Mr. J.C Weliamuna the well known and respected human rights lawyer.
    Women’s organisations have in the past, drawn the attention of the Minister of Women’s Empowerment and Child Development and the National Committee on Women to acts of violence against women and children committed with impunity by armed persons in various parts of the (…)

  • Full Text of the Report by Commission of Enquiry Consisting of Justice Nanavati and Justice Mehta

    by sacw.net, 6 October 2008

    Text of controversial report of the commission of inquiry by Justice Nanavati and Justice Mehta on the sabarmati express train burning in Godhra.

  • Surviving on the Faultline: 3 years after the earthquake . . .realities of people’s lives

    by sacw.net, 6 October 2008

    From: Rashida Dohad Date: Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:27 PM
    Dear friends:
    In 2007-08, Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation and its local community partners in the earthquake-affected areas of Hazara conducted research on the government’s rehabilitation policies and performance. The findings of the research provide evidence showing:
    1. The pace of rehabilitation is unacceptably slow. There is little progress against the government’s planned targets for rehabilitation which is (…)

  • Rape, Justice and Compromise

    by Beena Sarwar, 6 October 2008

    The News on sunday, 5 October 2008
    Displacement and its related matters aside, the real issue remains the rape of the girls, and the fact that they are not getting justice. If they and their families were to agree to a ’compromise’, their troubles would be over in a flash
    "The most difficult thing is to ask for something," said Tasleem, sudden tears in her eyes overshadowing her determined cheerfulness.
    On Jan 10, 2007, local thugs gang raped Tasleem’s sister-in-law Kainat Soomro, then (…)

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