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UPDATE (India): More children severely malnourished found in Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh

[RE: AHRC-HAC-008-2009: UPDATE (India): Approximately 83 percent of the children in eight villages of Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh are malnourished] Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (A...

INDIA: 22 children died of malnutrition associated with diseases for past two months in Sidhi district, Madhya Pradesh

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to draw your attention to the 22 children who died of malnutrition associated with relevant diseases for past two months in Sidhi district...

INDIA: Approximately 83 percent of the children are malnourished in eight villages, Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to draw your attention to the child malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh. According to the recent report received from Birsa Munda Bhu Adhikar Manch (Birs...

INDIA: Corruption and neglect excludes the poor and migrants Below the Poverty Line (BPL) families

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to draw your attention to the corruption that is excluding the poor from Below the Poverty Line (BPL) family list. BPL families are ex...

INDIA: No government programme supports severely malnourished child in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) that four-year-old Ibran suffers from Grade IV malnu...

INDONESIA: 113 villagers’ hunger deaths caused by government neglect as well as harvest failure in Yahukimo, Papua

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from human rights groups working in Yahukimo that since January 2009 till now approximately 113 villagers in Yahukimo, P...

INDIA: Villagers die of hunger due to corruption in public food distribution and lack of livelihood in Bihar

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information regarding the deaths of five villagers of hunger from the Hunger Free Bihar Campaign, a human rights group working o...

INDIA: Another child died of malnutrition while fifty one children malnourished in Saledhana village, Madhya Pradesh

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that a child died of malnutrition associated with fever, diarrhoea and breathing difficulty on June 17, 2009. The human rig...

INDIA: Three children died of malnutrition for past two months and four children are currently suffering from malnutrition in Dabhiya village of Madhya Pradesh where children had died of malnutrition in 2008

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a human rights group based in Madhya Pradesh Spandan, Samaj Seva Samiti (Spandan) regarding three children who died...

UPDATE (India): Home-based treatment for the malnourished children living in remote rural area needs to be encouraged

[RE: AHRC-HAU-003-2009: UPDATE (India): Two children suffer from malnutrition in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh] Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated informa...

UPDATE (Phlippines): Soldiers threaten civilian lives by blocking food aid, burning houses in Maguindanao

[RE: AHRC-HAG-003-2009: PHILIPPINES: Soldiers burn houses, blocks food supply for over 34,000 displaced families in Maguindanao] Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform...

GENERAL (Philippines): Soldiers burn houses, blocks food supply for over 34,000 displaced families in Maguindanao

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to draw your attention to the continuing food blockade the military has imposed in Maguindanao thereby depriving over 34,000 families ...

UPDATE (India): The government’s announcement that it will issue ration cards in Khandwa district must be implemented

[RE: AHRC-HAU-003-2009: UPDATE (India): Two children suffer from malnutrition in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated informa...

UPDATE (India): Two children suffer from malnutrition in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh

[RE: AHRC-HAC-002-2009: UPDATE (India): The government ignores deaths of forty-three children due to malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) had reported...

INDIA: The government ignores deaths of forty-three children due to malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a human rights group, Spandan Samaj Seva Samiti (Spandan) in Madhya Pradesh (MP). It appears that the state governm...

UPDATE (India): Call for more attention on handloom weaver community where five children died of malnutrition in Varanasi

[RE: AHRC-HAU-001-2008: INDIA: UPDATE (India): Boy suffering from malnutrition dies; 13 others remain at serious risk] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) had reported that a two-ye...

INDIA: Hunger strike protester dies while demanding fairness in food distribution

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) that a young man died of hunger while on a hunge...

GENERAL (Philippines): Flood aggravates hunger and poor health of the villagers in Davao

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you that the villagers in Kamuhkaan village suffer from hunger and illness aggravated by flood. The local government temporarily...

UPDATE (India): Call for more attention for hand-loom weavers suffering from hunger and Tuberculosis in Varanasi

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has recently received information that a handloom weaver living in the Lohta area suffers from Tuberculosis (TB). Lohta located in the Varanasi d...

GENERAL (Philippines): Landless farm labourers in Davao suffer from hunger and extreme poverty

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you about the situation of the villagers in Davao Del Sur, who suffer from hunger and extreme poverty. Many of the villagers are...