ACHR urges President of UN Human Rights Council for removal of UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Professor Yanghee Lee for bias

India’s Migrant Expulsion Crusade Feared to Cause Chaos, Asia Sentinel

Available at Asia Sentinel23 September 2019 Prime Minister Narendra Modi government’s plan to expel millions of illegal immigrants is expected to sow chaos and confusion across the country, with critics charging that a hurriedly compiled database endangers hundreds of thousands of indigenous citizens, includes many who shouldn’t be on it, and is being used to […]

India builds first detention center for ‘stateless citizens’, Arab News

Available at Arab News07 September 2019 The detention center is being built at a cost of more than $6 million This is the first time any state government in India has built an exclusive detention center ASSAM: The northeastern Indian state of Assam is building a detention center to house thousands of stateless citizens. On […]

Bharat Bandh against eviction of about 12 million indigenous peoples–Ep6 # The Rights View

Rights View Published on Mar 6, 2019 On 5th March 2019, hundreds of Adivasi/indigenous peoples organisations with the support of the Dalit organisations observed “Bharat Bandh/India Shutdown” against the order of the Supreme Court to evict over 12 million forest dwellers, mainly indigenous peoples, whose applications under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) had been rejected. […]