New Delhi, 27 November 2024: The Rights and Rights & Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) today filed a complaint with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention against illegal and arbitrary detention of the most prominent minority Hindu religious monk in Bangladesh, Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari by the Interim Government of Bangladesh headed by Dr Mohammed […]
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ visit to Bangladesh, RRAG seeks a country office to address human rights violations
New Delhi, 29 October 2024: The Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) in its submission urged the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, who is visiting Bangladesh from today to press the Interim Government of Bangladesh to allow establishment of a country mission of the UN human rights office in Bangladesh with full […]
PRESS RELEASE: BANGLADESH NHRC URGED TO INVESTIGATE ATTACKS ON AT LEAST 1,090 HOUSES, BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS AND PLACES OF WORSHIP BELONGING TO THE MINORITY COMMUNITIES ON 5-20 AUGUST 2024
The Rights and Risk Analysis Groups (RRAG) today filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh to enquire into the attacks and damages to at least 1,090 houses, business establishments and places of worship belonging to the minority communities between 5-20 August 2024 after the fall of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina […]
Press Release: Bangladesh – Racial profiling of Hindu officers, UN urged to intervene
The Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) today sought intervention of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief and Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues with the Caretaker government of Bangladesh against racial profiling of the Hindu officers of the Government of Bangladesh. In an […]
Press Release: World Heritage Committee Session in New Delhi – UNESCO slammed for silence on indigenous peoples rights violations in natural heritage sites
New Delhi, 22 July 2024: UNESCO was today slammed for its silence on violations of the rights of indigenous peoples in its certified World Heritage Sites in protected areas on the eve of its 46th session of the World Heritage Committee being held in New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday inaugurated the 46th session […]
PRESS RELEASE: 84% of the India’s national parks are in tribal inhabited areas, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework will destroy indigenous peoples worldwide, warns Suhas Chakma
Arizona, United States, 22 March 2023: About 89 out of the 106 notified national parks in India i.e. about 84% were established in the areas inhabited by the Scheduled Tribes and indigenous peoples across the world will suffer destruction if Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework of the Conference of the Parties to […]
PRESS RELEASE: RRAG opposes uniform civil code as “McDonaldisation of India”
New Delhi: The Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) in its submission to the Law Commission of India today stated that nothing has changed since the Law Commission’s Consultation Paper of 2018 in which it held that “uniform civil code which is neither necessary nor desirable at this stage” and any other contrary findings shall raise […]
PRESS RELEASE: ABOUT 70,000 DISPLACED, MANIPUR’S RIOTS DESTABILSING NORTH EAST’S REGIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY
Two months of riots since 3 May 2023 after the protest by the All Tribal Students’ Union of Manipur over the issue of grant of Scheduled Tribes (ST) status to the Meiteis turned violent, ethnic riots between the Meiteis and the Kukis in Manipur has turned into a full scale civil war, destabilising peace and security […]
PRESS RELEASE: 194 journalists targeted, eight killed during 2022 in India
The Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) stated that a total of 194 journalists including seven women journalists were targeted across India by the State agencies, non-state political actors and criminals, and the armed opposition groups (AOGs) during 2022. Among the States/Union Territories (UTs), the journalists from Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) faced the maximum target […]
PRESS RELEASE: Home Minister Amit Shah Urged To Impose President’s Rule In Manipur To Facilitate Inter-Community Dialogues
The Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is visiting Manipur from today, to consider imposing President’s rule in the State in view of the failure to bring the ethnic violence under control following the imposition of Article 355 on 6 May 2023. The clashes including burning of the […]