Solidarity Message: Founding Anniversary of the Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR)

May 4, 2017 - On the founding anniversary of the Citizens Alliance of North Korean Human Rights (NKHR), AFAD congratulates NKHR, its member organization in South Korea, for its invaluable role in supporting victims of human rights violations by North Korea.

RHETORIC VERSUS REALITY - INDIA UNDER UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW [UPR] OF UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHT COUNCIL AMID RELENTLESS VIOLENCE IN KASHMIR

 Press Release
3rd May 2017

The last week of May every year is recognized internationally as the International Week of the Disappeared and is an opportunity to remember the disappeared, and acknowledge the struggle of their families. This year, tomorrow on 4^th of May, India’s human rights record will be reviewed in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC) under the “Universal Periodic Review” (UPR) system by which States subject themselves to a review - by other States - of their human rights record. Since 2006, when the UPR process began, India has been reviewed twice - 2008 and 2012 and 4 May 2017 is India’s third cycle of UPR.

Human Rights Monitoring Report

April 1 – 30, 2017

Extrajudicial killings
Torture and inhuman treatment
Enforced disappearances
Public lynching
Political violence
Collecting information of leaders of the opposition parties by
Special Branch of Police
Electoral system and local government
Hindrance to freedom of assembly
Hindrance to freedom of expression and the media
Situation of workers’ rights
Extremism and human rights
Bangladesh-India relations
Violence against Women
Activities of Odhikar hindered

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

United Nations Human Rights Council
27th Session, Geneva, Switzerland
May 1-12, 2017