Full Coverage: Civil rights

28.03.2008 South Asians for Human Rights is organising a consultation on the Concerns of the Bhutanese Refugees in South Asia on March 31, 2008, in New Delhi, India. The consultation will provide a forum to deliberate on the present state of the Bhutanese refugees in India and Nepal and the recently held elections to the National Assembly.

15.03.2008

12.03.2008 NEW YORK, Mar 12 (OneWorld) - The United States government is facing new international scrutiny for its treatment of racial minorities.

06.03.2008 Forget that judicial system is not accessible to the vast majority of people in India, even worse is the fact that it is increasingly acquiring an elitist and anti-poor character. A recently held convention in New Delhi talked of reclaiming and reinventing the judiciary for the poor.

05.03.2008 ICIMOD’s latest resource manual, Advocacy Strategies and Approaches has been developed for effective advocacy of mountain development issues and themes in the Himalayan region. It also serves as a useful guide to facilitate mountain people’s participation in mainstream policy making.

03.03.2008 Found guilty of espionage, Kashmir Singh, an Indian national was awarded capital punishment by a Pakistan court in 1973. Having remained on death row for 35 long years, he has been recently granted clemency by President Pervez Musharraf. He is now all set to return and reunite with his family.

03.03.2008 Amnesty International’s new report titled: Sri Lanka: Silencing Dissent, says clamping down on media freedom corrodes free speech and strangles debate, and prevents a true assessment of human rights abuses. Journalists, actors, writers, filmmakers have been targeted both by the government and rebels alike.