05 December, 2005
Cobra's (or call them tigers) Are Back
By subhash gatade
The state police department of Andhra Pradesh has engaged a criminal mafia gang called ‘Black Cobra’ . This gang has been issuing ‘death lists’ in media and brutally hacking those on the lists.' And this gang has already killed two intellectuals
26 August, 2005
Fifty-four Years In Jail Without Trial:
The Plight Of Prison Inmates In India
By Parwini Zora
The state of Indias penal and justice systems speaks volumes about the true nature of human rights and social equality in a country routinely held up by the Western media as the worlds largest democracy.
13 August, 2005
Caste Discrimination Root Cause Of Conflict in Nepal
By Center for Human Rights and Global Justice
Caste discrimination is a root cause and an insidious consequence of the civil war in Nepal, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice charged in a new report
12 August, 2005
The Vanished Of Punjab
By Rajesh Ramachandran
From 1984 to 1994, the Punjab Police was at its brutal best. A decade later, NHRC is still to administer justice
11 August, 2005
The Ugly Case: NHRC Of Nepal
By ACHR Review
The National Human Rights Commission of Nepal which played a crucial role to monitor human rights violations both by the security forces and the Maoists since its inception today stands as the most discredited National Human Rights Institution in the Asia Pacific region
20 July, 2005
For A Free Press
By Nuiman
New Delhi based Malayalam magazine Free Press has been forced to stop its publication for having written against state-sponsored terrorism. The journalists at Free Press have been under constant attack from the establishment ever since the magazine boldly covered the wrongs done to Abdurahman Geelani who was falsely implicated in the Parliament attack case
01 June, 2005
White Australia Abusing Asian Mothers And Children
By Gideon Polya
Have you got your passport?" is set to become a standard semi-serious comment within the "visible minorities" in racist White Australia
22 May, 2005
Joint Letter to Prachanda
By Human Rights Organisations
A joint letter by international humanrights organisations to CPN (Maoist) to establish mechanisms for cooperation with the UN human rights monitoring mission, including mechanisms to allow transparent and independent investigations by the UN teams in areas under (CPN) Maoist control
Australian Academics Advocate Legalized Torture
By Gideon Polya
Two Australian law academics have caused a storm in Australia by their advocacy of legalised torture
17 March, 2005
The Dark Side Of Australia's Palm Island
By Andrew Boe
Tensions between police and locals continue to run high on the troubled indigenous settlement of Palm Islan, Queensland, Australia following last November's death in custody of Cameron (Mulrunji) Doomadgee. It also raises questions about Australia's racial prejudices
09 March, 2005
Reign Of Terror In Kasipur
By Statesman News Service
The People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) which went on a fact finding mission to the Kasipur area of Raygada district in the Indian state of Orissa where the Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL) plans to establish an alumina plant reports of a "reign of terror"
02 March, 2005
Australia: Palm Islands Dark History
Of Aboriginal Repression
By Erika Zimmer
Conditions on Palm Island have steadily worsened. The disaster that has been created by a succession of governments, state and federal, is now being used to justify further inroads into the social position of Aborigines
20 February, 2005
Who Pulled The Trigger... Didn't We All?
By Arundhati Roy
Must we in our hypernationalism take a man who has already suffered enough and reduce him to fish bait? Can we-and our media-stop judging S.A.R. Geelani
16 February, 2005
White Australia Imprisons Refugees
By Gideon Polya
White Australia has been imprisoning thousands of innocent, non-European refugee men, women and children behind razor wire in privately-run detention camps in remote deserts and on remote Pacific islands