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[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 attached below […]
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that Mr. Ket Bun Thann, chief of Pou Teut village has sold 400 hectares which is under a collective ownership of a Phnong indigenous community of 56 families in Pou Teut village, Bou Sra commune, Pich Chenda District, Mondolkiri province, in the northeastern region of […]
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of another brutal and illegal eviction of 229 families from Number One village, Sangkat Number One, Sihanouk Ville, Cambodia on 18 December 2006. The incident took place when Governor Say Hak allegedly ordered at least 100 military and police officers armed with rifles, […]
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by a blockade of food supplies set up by the Cambodian authorities to force 180 families of disabled war veterans, widows and orphans out of their homes and lands at Kro-Year commune, Santuk district, Kompong province, in a forced eviction to hand over the […]
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to update you on a land dispute that was reported on earlier this month involving the forced eviction of two communities from the Sambo district in Kratie province, Cambodia. On 13 January 2007, a house belonging to 27 year-old farmer and father of two Oun Theurn […]
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partner organization MASUM in West Bengal regarding the alleged deaths during a protest in Nandigram, East Midnapore district, West Bengal against the state government’s plan to acquire land for a Special Economic Zone(SEZ). According to the first fact-finding report done by MASUM, […]
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner organisation MASUM in West Bengal that a family of Bangladeshi origin were brutally assaulted and evicted from their land by a group of local thugs on 10 November 2006. The police took no action to arrest the alleged perpetrators when […]
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information that two women were severely beaten up by thugs hired by the 7NG company but the police have not started an investigation into their injuries which happened on 16 December 2007 in Dey Krahorm zone, Tonle Bassac commune, Phnom Penh. While two women […]
[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 […]
CAMBODIA: Illegal expropriation of land; violation of Cambodia Land Law; violation of the right to housing and food; impunity —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal expropriation of a large plot of land by the Army Brigade 31 of the Cambodian army in Cham Srey village, Kompong […]
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 […]
On November 3, the media reported that the Philippines has once again been elected to a seat on one of the main organs of the United Nations–the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Ambassador Lauro Baja Jr., permanent representative of the Philippines to the United Nations, quickly praised the overwhelming number of votes received by the […]
The presence of the Prime Minister calls for additional security and protection. With protection and security being the job of the police, they will be on their toes when it is a matter concerning people like the Prime Minister, Governor and other ministers in India. The reason is simple; because these persons, if they wish, […]
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding yet another case of an alleged illegal forced eviction in Cambodia, in which another tycoon senator is involved. Twelve families, who have lived on their land since 1985, and are entitled to land ownership according to Land Law 2001 of Cambodia, were forcibly […]
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 attached below […]
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that trials have begun against several poverty-stricken villagers who were charged with robbery for stealing scrap rubber left uncollected on the ground at a state rubber plantation of Krek, in Pohnea Krek district, Kompong Cham province, Cambodia. The AHRC reported this case earlier […]
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in India, MASUM concerning the eviction of a family from their home, the lack of police action and medical assistance as well as the impunity of the persons who attacked them and force them from their home. According to the […]
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