Interview:
We would like to thank Ravi Nair, Executive Director of the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Center (SAHRDC), and Coordinator of the Asia Pacific Human Rights Network (APHRN), for answering the following interview questions. Mr. Nair is a member of the World Movement for Democracy Steering Committee.

1. Please explain the background of SAHRDC? When and how was it established and what are its main objectives?

SAHRDC was founded in October 1990 with the aim of researching and documenting violations of civil and political rights, chiefly in South Asia. Over the years, its work has expanded to cover Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific. At the international level, for example, at the UN Commission on Human Rights, SAHRDC addresses human rights issues beyond Asia and the Pacific.

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18 December 2008 | irb-cisr.gc.ca | ZZZ103009.E

Nepal/India: Nepali citizens living in India; whether they are legally entitled to reside, work, attend school, and access health care services; whether there are any repercussions for “illegal” residence, or whether illegal status is tolerated or ignored by Indian authorities Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Ottawa

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« Bleak future faces Afghan Hindus in Germany An Assessment – Afghan Hindus and Sikhs » July 26, 1999 by afghanhindu

HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURES | A joint initiative of SAHRDC and HRDC
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HRF/4/99 | Embargoed for 26 July 1999

Approximately 60,000 Afghan refugees are estimated to be living in New Delhi, but since the beginning of 1999, the Indian Government’s Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) has refused to renew their residence visas. As a result, the residence visas of most of these refugees have expired and they are now living in the country illegally, a predicament that every Afghan refugee in India will share by the end of the year. This situation has had predictable consequences. For example, most of these refugees are now wary about traveling outside their own neighbourhoods for fear of extortion, or, even worse, deportation, at the hands of the Indian police. The situation for Afghan refugees is rapidly deteriorating…… Read more

Dec 2001 | frontlineonnet.com
Volume 18 – Issue 25, Dec. 08-21,2001
India’s National Magazine, from the publishers of THE HINDU

ANALYSIS
The draconian Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance draws heavily from anti-terrorism Acts in the United States and the United Kingdom. But unlike those in the latter two, which cover only foreigners in the respective nations, POTO affects all Indians.

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2000 | india-seminar.com

THE National Commission for the Review of the Working of the Constitution was created by the present NDA government amidst protest by the opposition and a sizable section of lawpersons, fearing that it was set up to effectuate the political agenda of the NDA on issues, among others, relating to the presidential form of government, (in)eligibility of persons of foreign origin for holding public office, secularism and so on. Justice M.N. Venkatchalliah, former Chief Justice of India, and the commission’s chairperson, put paid to some of these fears by publicly stating that the commission will not seek to tamper with the basic structure of the Constitution which includes, but is not limited to, secularism, parliamentary form of government, separation of powers and so on.

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