Caste-based discrimination

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the discrimination of a person belonging to the Schedules Caste, vying for the post of a lecturer, by the District Inspector of School (DIOS) and college authorities in Uttar Pradesh. Mr. Lal Bahadur Ram appeared for the Intermediate Education Service […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that further threats have been made to a colleague of Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi, who we reported on only two days ago as having received death threats (See further UA-138-2005). The AHRC has confirmed information that further to this earlier threat to Dr. Lenin and […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission(AHRC) has received information from People’s Watch-Tamil Nadu of a caste-based assault on a Dalit woman in Vengamedu village, Perunthrai Taluk, Erode District, Tamil Nadu, India, on 31 March 2005. The only reason for the assault and sexual harassment of Ms. Pappathi was that she used the pathway which […]

[Re: UA- 50 -2005: INDIA: Three and a half year wait for justice for the brutal murder of an Adivasi (tribal person) by a forest official in Gujarat] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information on the case of Manishbhai Motibhai Vasava (30), an adivasi who was murdered by an Indian […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you about the continued inaction and disregard by the authorities of Surat, Gujarat, India in investigating and prosecuting the perpetrators of abuses and harassment against the Adivasi people – a tribal minority. The police have not yet investigated complaints filed before them, while the […]

The U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is visiting India at a crucial time. His proposals for reform of the United Nations remain high on the international agenda, and their fate rests on the support given by key parties in the global community. India is among these. It also has a big stake in the proposed […]

Dear friends, It has come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that a young man was killed and four other persons were wounded by four Brahmins on 16 August 2004 in Chauri Chaura, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, simply because they possessed the land which adjoins that of the Brahmins. All the victims […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) shares the concerns expressed by the Secretary General of the United Nations in his statement on the human rights situation in Nepal. Time and again the AHRC has stressed that regional governments such as India, international governments and bodies such as European Union, national political parties and the King […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Sita Sada, a 14-year old Dalit girl, was raped and killed by upper caste men on 17 May 2004. According to our information, while Sita was sleeping at night, more than 10 men came and dragged her out of the house. Two days […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man named Heeralu Mohottalalage Punchi Banda (39) was illegally arrested and tortured by the Sub Inspector (S.I.) Dhammika Bandara of Samanalaweva Police Post in Balangoda on 26 August 2004. Due to brutal torture, the victim still suffers from severe pain on his […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the ban on the Chamar Dalit community in Bhagawatpur-9 village by the upper caste villagers imposed since 6 September 2004. This situation arose following the decision of Chamar Dalits in the village calling for their social status and rights not to remove carcasses from […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Harshana Tharindu Wijegunawardena, an 11-year-old student (grade 6) at St. John’s College in Panadura, has been subjected to discrimination and inhuman and degrading treatment tantamount to mental torture after receiving compensation for being assaulted by one of the teachers. Please send a letter […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partner organisation in West Bengal, Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) that a pregnant Dalit woman, Lilabati Chowdhury, was brutally beaten by a police patrol party of the Beharampore police station at midnight on 7 August 2004. After the assault, Lilabati was admitted to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding an appeal from the Dalit Human Rights Monitoring (DHRM) on the brutal attack on Dalits settlement in the Kalapatti village of Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, India, by the dominant caste people on 16 May 2004.  We have attached for you the 10-page document written by […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 30-year-old woman named Ms. Hidayat was allegedly killed by her husband, Mr. Momin Ali Mahar in Dal village, Lakhi Ghulam Shah Town, Shikarpur District, Sindh Province, Pakistan on 29 February 2004. The case was registered at the Chak Police Station. However, a human […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the young couple named Manoj Khanga and Parbati Raut, who had an inter-caste marriage, has been kidnapped by the girl’s relatives on 27 January 2004, and the Dalit community (80 people) of Bishanpur VDC-9, which the male victim belongs to, was attacked by […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned at receiving information of yet another case of discrimination against Dalits in Nepal. A number of Dalits were beaten up and forbidden to enter the village temple in northwest Ajagaibi Village Development Committee, Rautahat district on 28 January 2004. Furthermore, at the village panchayat meeting […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that three Dalit teachers were transferred from Surendranagar district, Gujarat, India, on 3 December 2003, for objecting to the segregation of upper and lower caste students during the lunch meal. Another incident of discrimination occurred in the same week, also in Gujarat: Dalit Sarpanch […]

NEPAL: Discrimination based on sexual orientation ———————————————————— Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two young homosexuals were brutally assaulted by the Armed Police personnel near Ratnapark, central Kathmandu, on 6 December 2003. AHRC is gravely concerned of such regular assault, and torture of homosexuals in Nepal, especially by the […]

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that one Dalit woman’s house in Baglung district was burnt down by her upper caste neighbor on 13 November 2003, after she refused to move away from the area. The police have taken no serious action to investigate the case until now. In Nepal, […]