Category: India

INDIA: Child soldiers being used as expendable pawns in armed conflicts

6th Session - 2007 September, ALRC AT THE UN, Countries, documents, Human Rights Council, India, Written Submissions September 7, 2007August 19, 2015 admin 0 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 7, 2007 AL-024-2007 A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre to the 6th session of the UN Human Rights Council INDIA: Child soldiers being used as expendable pawns in armed conflicts In April 2007 the Chhattisgarh State Police ambushed a 12-member strong brigade of armed Naxalites (a group similar to the Maoists in Nepal) operating near Dhanora village. In the operation, the police arrested two girls, respectively aged 14 and 15 years old, who were wearing school uniforms and were armed with old 303 bore rifles. When questioned, the girls confessed that they had been picked up from school by the Naxalites, and […]

INDIA: Widespread corruption in the Public Food Distribution System causing starvation deaths

5th Session - 2007 June, ALRC AT THE UN, Commission on Human Rights, Countries, documents, India, Written Submissions May 31, 2007August 19, 2015 admin 0 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 31, 2007 AL-011-2007 HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Fifth session A Written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre INDIA: Widespread corruption in the Public Food Distribution System causing starvation deaths The Prime Minister of India in his foreword in the ‘Report to The People’ dated May 22, 2007, claims: “In this 60th year of independence, the country should have the satisfaction of recording for the fifth year in a succession a rate of economic growth of over 8.5%.”  [1] The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) however is not sure whether the estimated over 200 million Indians who are presently suffering from malnourishment, and the many more […]

Reunion of Kashmiri Families

ALRC AT THE UN, CHR 58th Session - 2002, Commission on Human Rights, Countries, documents, India, Written Submissions March 4, 2002August 25, 2015 admin 0 Comments

Item 10 : ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS 6. Reunion of Kashmiri Families Link to UNCHR COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Fifty-eighth-session Item 10 of the Provisional Agenda ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS Written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), A non-governmental organization with general consultative status Reunion of Kashmiri families 1. Article 10(1) of International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) states that the widest possible protection and assistance should be accorded to the family, which is the natural and fundamental group unit of society. Yet since the 1947 division of Kashmir, families living on either side of the border have been denied the right […]