Two human rights defenders arrested for complaining against to...

Delhi-based Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has in its latest report titled "India''s Child Soldiers", said that Naxals and other insurgent outfits are recruiting children to fulfill their objectives. According to the report, at least 3,000 ...

The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) in its report, "India's Child Soldiers", released on Thursday, said at least 3,000 children are members of militant outfits and 500 of them are in the northeast and Jammu and Kashmir.

New Delhi, Apr 30 (IBNS): The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to raise the issue of accountability for past human rights abuses, and the indispensability of holding free and fair elections for durable ...

New Delhi, May 9 : Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) on Thursday released its report, "India's Child Soldiers", claiming it to be the first ever comprehensive study on the subject in India, and accused the government in New Delhi of defending the records ...

Guwahati, May 2 : A human rights advocacy group, Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), today moved various United Nations (UN) bodies over the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in custody of Pakistan.

New Delhi, Apr 5 : Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) on Friday alleged that President Pranab Mukherjee has reduced the President's Office to a rubber stamp of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) while rejecting mercy pleas of the death-row convicts as per ...

Kazakhstan's controversial Muslim Union and Muslim Committee on Humans Rights in Central Asia have proposed to set a limit for the country's future presidents to 80 years and put to death any ruler who tries to keep the reins beyond that age, ...

Salman was elected to Fifa's executive committee by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), which also installed him as its new president after a three-way vote. The Bahrain royal takes over the AFC presidency from disgraced Qatari Mohamed bin ...

SEAPA The year 2012 was a landmark year for human rights in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), after its leaders unveiled its first ever human rights instrument, the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) on 12 November 2012. The ...