Child rights

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission(AHRC) have been informed that 14-year-old W. K. Sajini Vasana Perera was insulted both physically and mentally by her class teacher in front of all classmates without any legitimate reason on 27 October 2006. The victim child was too embarrassed and impressionable to endure her distress and jumped from […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Cambodian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Cambodian authorities are […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission(AHRC) has received information that 13-year-old Lahiru Nalaka, a student of the Sri Pada Madya Maha School, Palabaddala, Ratnapura District, Sri Lanka, was assaulted by the principal. Two other students had also been seen to be harassed and slapped by several teachers. The teachers including the school principal did […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the prolonged detention of two farmers in Davao Oriental province, the Philippines. Both of them have been detained for almost three years without any progress in their case because the prosecution witnesses failed to appear in court on six occasions. One of […]

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of Ministry of Education and local Education department of Sri Lankan authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Their fax numbers and postal addresses are attached […]

INDIA: Misuse of power by the police; threat and intimidation; collapse of rule of law; police’s collaboration with the culprits; human trafficking; corruption ————————————- Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned through its local partner MASUM about the alleged case of kidnapping of a 14 year-old girl from Jotkanai village by a […]

Maina Sunawar was 15 years old when members of the Nepalese armed forces arbitrarily arrested her. Since this date – February 17, 2004 – she has disappeared. All the evidence indicates that she was tortured to death by members of the military, who have since sought to deny her arrest and cover up her death. […]

Dear friends, The case against Mahesh Ranaweera (12) was finally concluded 17 August 2006 at the Panwila Magistrates Court. Mahesh had been illegally arrested and detained by the Wattwgama police after being  accused for deliberately assaulting and injuring his class mate Harsha Bandara in the school playground in February 2005 while they were playing (See […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received reliable information that a 16-year-old school girl has been duped into leaving home by one of her school teachers in Thiruwanaganga-watte, Kotapola, Sri Lanka on 6 May 2006.  Despite repeated appeals by S.A. Letchimi, the girl’s mother to the teacher concerned and having made a […]

Dear Friends, Staff of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) together with staff of the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR) in Uttar Pradesh, India have received news that a child died of starvation this morning, 28 July 2006 due to wanton government inaction and neglect because of caste discrimination. Nine-month-old Seema Musahar died […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received news of yet another case involving a teacher in Sri Lanka assaulting one of his pupils. In the latest incident, on 17 July 2006 the 13-year-old victim and his classmates had been chatting outside their classroom as the subject-teacher due at the time was late. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the assault of a student by his Pirivena teacher. Early morning on 17 July 2006 a 15-year-old student Bikku was severely assaulted by his teacher, M. Sugatharathana Thero of the Wickremasheela, Pirivena (Bikku seminary) in Bandaragama for arguing with […]

[Re: UA-90-2004: SRI LANKA: A boy brutally assaulted by his teachers and denied his right of education; UP-42-2004: SRI LANKA: Update on a boy brutally assaulted by his teachers; UP–003–2006: SRI LANKA: Attorney General withdraws criminal case against school staff who tortured a student] ——————————————————————— SRI LANKA: Severe assault; denial of child rights; government inaction; […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case in Sri Lanka involving the forced labour of three minors in lieu of their parent’s debt. When the parents of the three children were unable to repay a loan they had obtained from their tea estate employer, the employer unlawfully […]

The numerous appointments to key national commissions by the executive president, contravening constitutional requirements, are a very clear indication of Sri Lanka’s drift from a law-based society to one in which the law plays a significantly reduced role.  While criticism against presidential actions has pointed to matters including the fact that no person is above […]

Dear friends, In August 2004 the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wrote detailing the torture of two boys by officers from the Ambalangoda police. The officers initially arrested the boys for allegedly stealing a gold chain, and later threatened the boys’ parents with prosecution if they did not pay them Rs. 3000. In the meantime […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault of a 14-year-old boy by a local businessman, who forced the boy to work for him on 29 April 2006, and the subsequent appalling conduct of the local police. On April 29, residents of the Hirana village noticed a young boy […]

SRI LANKA: Brutal assault of a minor; threat and intimidation; violation of the right to freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; violation of the right to education; collapse of rule of law ——————————————————- Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that yet another case of […]

Dear friends, Following in the footsteps of four cases of abuse of students by their teachers in Sri Lanka in recent months, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has now learned of yet another incident of such nature. Saman Iddamalgoda, a teacher at Nitithigala Junior School, first asked 12-year-old Ranjith Kumara to remove his spectacles. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the unlawful criminal trial and arbitrary detention of an eight-year-old boy. On 10 March 2006, an eight-year-old boy named Muhamad Azwar (a.k.a Raju) was found guilty of assaulting his schoolmate by Judge Tiurmaida Pardede at Langkat District Court, North […]