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A diaspora begins

Has resettlement given a fillip to the cause of democracy in Bhutan? Will the right of return be far behind?

By T P Mishra

/ 1 May 2010

Soft anarchy

In Sri Lanka, the rule of law has been replaced by the law of the rulers. The Uva Provincial Council election, held during the first week of August, marked the

By Tisaranee Gunasekara

/ 9 Sep 2009

The politics of internment

Throughout the years of the island's ethnic conflict, successive governments of Sri Lanka maintained that the war was against the LTTE and not the Tamil people. As such,

By The Editors

/ 3 Aug 2009

No peace without justice

Following shelling by the security forces in Jammu & Kashmir, 11 people were killed on 18 September 1997 in Arin, in Bandipore of Baramullah district. Eleven years later, the victims&

By Warisha Farasat

/ 1 Jun 2009

Prime minister versus president

Unexpected political developments have, again, dragged Nepal towards uncertainty and chaos. On 3 M ay, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal made a unilateral decision to sack Chief of the Army

By Mandira Sharma

/ 1 Jun 2009

Fighting Hudood, protecting women

Pakistan votes to amend rape laws 15 November 2006: Pakistan's national assembly votes to amend the country's strict Sharia laws on rape and adultery. Until now

By The Editors

/ 9 Dec 2008

An international pariah

The human rights catastrophe in Nepal has been a decade in the making. Thousands of people have been killed. Hundreds of thousands have been uprooted. Women have been attacked and

By Irene Khan

/ 28 Mar 2006

Mind the communication gap

How can we get the public and governments to take the MDGs more seriously?

By Nalaka Gunawardene

/ 1 Nov 2005

The healing can begin here

What hope is there for human rights protection in war-torn Jammu & Kashmir if the state’s human rights body is bound and gagged?

By Ravi Nair

/ 1 Nov 2005

A backward slide

The weakness of the February 2002 ceasefire agreement between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil rebels is currently most obvious in the country's northeast. Recently, a group

By Jehan Perera

/ 1 Nov 2005

Brutalising inmates the ‘Tihar way’

"We have sometimes to take tough decisions—even infringing some of our freedoms" – Prime Minister AB Vajpayee, November 11, 2002. Jails are supposed to be reformatory in nature.

By Subhash Gatade

/ 1 Jan 2004

A study of the abuse of human rights and the human spirit in "democratic India" reveals the extent of the problem of lawlessness by the state, which can only become much worse when all of South Asia is taken into account. This review regarding the state of respect for human rights in India, and four

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 2003