It took a ‘textbook example of ethnic cleansing’ of the Rohingyas in Myanmar for many in the world to wake up to Noble Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Another Noble Laureate Dr Mohammed Yunus, Chief Advisor of the Interim Government of Bangladesh, who took oath on 8 August 2024, continues to enjoy largesse notwithstanding […]
Presentation by Suhas Chakma, Director of the Rights & Risks Analysis Group in a briefing for the diplomatic community and think-tanks on 09.10.2024 at India International Centre, New Delhi The full report, “Conflicts In Bangladesh and Myanmar: The Threat To Regional Peace And Security” can be accessed here. The oral presentation can be viewed here: […]
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 […]
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 […]
In its report, “India’s Tiger Reserves: Tribals Get Out, Tourists Welcome”, released on the occasion of the International Tiger Day, Rights & Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) stated that at least, 5,50,000 Scheduled Tribes and other forest dwellers are to be displaced by India’s much vaunted Project Tiger. These include 2,54,794 persons from 50 tiger reserves […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]