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Fake Encounters for
Personal Gain
(February 05, 2007)
Elements of the Indian
army and paramilitary
cooperated with rogue
police officers to
perpetrate several
cold-blooded murders of
innocent civilians in
Kashmir and faking them
as counter-insurgency
encounters for personal
recognition and awards.<More>
ICDS Needs Overhaul
(January 18, 2007)
Concern over poor
implementation of Integrated
Child Development Services
(ICDS) has prompted Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh to
write to all States and Union
Territories asking them to set
up a process of dealing with
child development.<More>
NHRC Orders Compensation for
STF Victims
(January 17, 2007)
In a landmark verdict, the
National Human Rights
Commission (NHRC) found the
Special Task Force (STF)
charged to capture now-dead
criminal Veerappan guilty of
perpetrating atrocities on
civilians and order an interim
compensation of Rs. 2.8 crore. <More>
Child Trafficking Lacks Focus
(December 28, 2006)
Campaign Against Child Trafficking (CACT), an umbrella
organization of various groups working on the issue of
child rights protested against the Karnataka
government’s lack of focus to stem trafficking in women
and children.<More>
Armed Forces Act Amendment
(December 07, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visiting Manipur said that his government will
amend the Armed Forces Act withdrawing extraordinary provisions such as
shoot-to-kill thus complying with demands made by many politicians of the
North East (NE).<More>
Global Human Rights Panel in Sri Lanka
(October 30, 2006)
Responding to feedback mechanism from Indian interlocutors, Sri Lanka is
actively considering a global human rights panel that will investigate
allegations of human rights violations through a “full-fledged
international human rights monitoring mission.”<More>
Torture, Censorship, and Repression in ‘Azad’ Kashmir
(September 26, 2006)
Human Rights groups say that in so-called ‘Azad’ (free)
Kashmir , largely closed to international and
independent scrutiny, the Pakistani Government represses
democratic freedom, stymies the press and media, and
uses torture as instrument of administration.<More>
UN Treaty Seeks to Curb Arms Trade
(September 20, 2006)
A draft resolution for an international arms
trade treaty is being floated by Britain,
Finland, Japan, Argentina, Australia, Costa
Rica, and Kenya in the UN seeking to reduce
human rights, limit the spread of terrorism,
and reduce unintended suffering of millions.<More>
Disappearances on Rise in South Asia
(September, 06 2006)
As nations of South Asia fight terrorism, Amnesty International (AI) says
that “enforced disappearances” of people is growing and while “new patterns”
are emerging from Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.<More>
Maldives Nationals Attacked
(July 22, 2006)
Following unconfirmed
reports of 2 Keralities being allegedly harassed by Maldives locals, 3
unidentified gangs attacked 6 houses in Thiruvanathapuram around midnight,
occupied by Maldivian nations who are students and patients.<More>
European secret services
colluded in CIA terror
transfers
(July 04, 2006)
Human Rights watchdog
Council of Europe again
accused intelligence
agencies of several
European nations to have
colluded with the US
Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) in the illegal
detention and transfer of
terror suspects in or
across the continent.<More>
Pak SC Orders Girl Trade
Probe
(July 04, 2006)
Pakistan Supreme Court
ordered an inquiry into a
decision by a council of
elders, or jirga, in a
village in southern Sindh
province to give away five
minor girls in marriage as
compensation for a double
murder case.<More>
Sudan Stops UN Activities
(June 28, 2006)
The Sudanese Government
asked local authorities in
the western region of Darfur
to immediately suspend UN
all non-humanitarian
activities in 3 states and
allow only the World Food
Program and other
international aid agencies.<More>
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With growing complaints
from Europeans about US
treatment of prisoners at
Guantanamo Bay, the draft
of a final statement
prepared for the EU-US
summit contained a pledge
from US President George
Bush that he will respect
human rights in the war on
terror.<More>
More Vocal European
Protests on Guantanamo
(June 13, 2006)
The coordinated suicide
deaths of the three
suspected terrorists in
Guantanamo have invited
even the closest allies to
criticize the US and
question its methodology in
fighting terror.<More>
US Cuts Pak Aid
(June 13, 2006)
The United States (US) cut its USD 701
million aid package to Pakistan citing
deterioration in human rights, lack of
progress on democracy, not doing enough on
terror and also speculated for denying
access to disgraced nuclear scientist A.Q.
Khan.<More>
Three Prisoners Commit
Suicide in Guantanomo
(June 12, 2006)
Three inmates at the US
prison camp at Guantanomo
Bay have reportedly
committed suicide using bed
sheets and personal
clothing under mysterious
circumstances that the US
calls a "mystical" effort
to free their peers.<More>
The CIA Terror Web
(June 08, 2006)
European Human Rights watchdog Council of Europe
accused 20 countries, including many in Europe, of
colluding with the US Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) to create secret prisons to transfer terror
suspects and use torture as means of interrogation.<>
US Marines Killed in Cold Blood
(June 01, 2006)
A military investigation into the gory death of 38
civilians in Haditha, Iraq last November suggests that
US Marines purposely shot to death 38 civilians in
cold blood and instead claimed that they were killed
in a roadside bomb attack.<More>
Amnesty Accuses US of Human Rights Violations
(May 24, 2006)
In its annual report of 2006, Amnesty International
(AI) accused the US of gross human rights violations
and double standards in its fight against terrorism
and depreciated their credibility for not demanding
more of allies engaging in abuses in fear of losing
them.<More>
SLMM Says Lanka Army behind Civilian Killings
(May 12, 2006)
For the first time,
the Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission (SLMM) has
acknowledged that the Sri Lankan Army (SLA), sponsored
militia, and rebel factions of Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been behind civilian
disappearances and extra-judicial killings.<More>
Iraq Analysts Accuse US Army for Violations
(March 23, 2006)
Iraqi Police accused the US troops of a "clear and
perfect crime" saying that they killed an entire
family of 11, including 5 children and 4 women, when a
patrol came under attack leading to the death of one
of the members at Ishaqi.<More>
HRW Accuses LTTE
(March 16, 2006)
US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is extorting
money from Tamil populations settled in Canada,
Britain, and Europe often under threat of serious
consequences.<More>
Annan Accuses US of Prisoners Torture
(March 09, 2006)
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan released a
report which characterized the US’s policy of
detaining thousands of Iraqis without trial as “de
facto arbitrary detention.”<More>
AI Accuses US, Allies for Prisoners Abuse
(March 08, 2006)
An Amnesty International (AI) report accused the
United States and its allies occupying Iraq of
mistreating prisoners saying, “from the outset the
occupying forces attached insufficient weight to human
rights considerations.”<More>
UNHCR Asks US to Close Guantanomo
(February 20, 2006)
Five independent investigators of the United Nations
Commission of Human Rights (UNHCR) asked the United
States to shut down the detention center at Guantanomo Bay.<More>
UNICEF Accuses LTTE
(February 18, 2006)
In response to a call from the United Nations Children
Education Fund (UNICEF), the Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam (LTTE) announced that it release 28 child
soldiers.<More>
NHRC Praises Karanataka (February 06, 2006)
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said
that it is happy with the Karnataka's rehabilitation
of tribal population displaced by the Kabini Reservoir
and the Bandipur National Forest projects.<More>
HRCP Accuses Pak on Baloch Killing
(February 04, 2006)
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has
accused the Pakistan armed forces of indiscriminate
bombing, killing, torture, and mysterious
disappearances in Baloachistan.<More>
US Uses Systematic Torture
(January 26, 2006)
European Human Rights investigator and Swiss Senator
Dick Marty said that the United States systematically
used torture through third parties as a weapon against
captured Taliban fighters and suspected terrorists.<More>
HRC Chides Pak for racist Policy
(January 24, 2006)
Bugti rebels attacked a Pakistani army base, telephone
exchange, and Government offices in South Western
Baloachistan province.
<More>
Gnanendra Curbs Civil Rights
(January 20, 2006)
In a major crackdown to thwart opposition to February
elections, Nepal arrested scores of activists, cut
cell phone services, and placed under house arrest
senior leaders.<More>
HRW Slams Musharraf for Anti-Women Violence
(January 20, 2006)
The New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said
that the Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was so
interested in consolidating power that he had
virtually ignored the plight of women in Pakistan.<More>
Militant Attacks Curtails Civil Liberties
(January 20, 2006)
The United States Agency for International Aid (USAID)
said that militant attacks are "significantly
damaging" infrastructure in Iraq and widespread
lawlessness is dramatically curtailing civil
liberties.<More>
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