Suhas Chakma
Mr. Suhas Chakma is the director of the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR). This centre is dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the Asian region by:
- providing accurate and timely information and complaints to the National Human Rights Institutions, the United Nations bodies and mechanisms as appropriate;
- conducting investigation, research, campaigning and lobbying on country situations or individual cases;
- increasing the capacity of human rights defenders and civil society groups through relevant trainings on the use of national and international human rights procedures;
- providing input into international standard-setting processes on human rights;
- providing legal, political and practical advice according to the needs of human rights defenders and civil society groups; and
- by securing the economic, social and cultural rights through rights-based approaches to development.
In relation to the country of India, ACHR has published different reports on the status of human rights in this country; India Human Rights Report 2008 and Torture in India 2008 - A State of Denial.
Lecture: India - Human rights or Asian Values?
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