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PAKISTAN: Government criminalises activists, increases online controls and cracks down on protests by the opposition and ethnic groups

A Statement from CIVICUS forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission The state of civic space in Pakistan is rated as ‘repressed’ by the CIVICUS Monitor. Ongoing concerns include the repression...

SRI LANKA: Victor Ivan: A man who has left a permanent imprint by way of his critique of the judicial system in Sri Lanka

Mr Victor Ivan is not with us anymore. However, in many areas of Sri Lanka’s political, social and cultural life, his imprint will remain for a very long time to come. Among the various impacts ...

How to Educate the Parliamentarians on Justice Reforms

IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC–OLT–002–2025 January 16, 2025 The third letter to the Honorable President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka on How to Educate the Parliamentar...

The Test of Effective Bribery and Corruption Control Investigations

Asian Human Rights Commission writes the second letter to the Honorable President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka on needed bribery and corruption control investigations Honorable A...

A letter to the Honorable President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka on needed Justice Reforms

Asian Human Rights Commission writes a letter to the Honorable President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka on needed Justice Reforms Honorable Anura Kumara Dissanayake President Demo...

SRI LANKA: Thinking with colors: Young persons kidnapped and killed inside a navy camp in Sri Lanka

The picture produced below shows how the kidnapping for ransom and killing of 11 young person’s inside a navy camp has become a problem troubling the conscience of the entire nation. This incident h...

ASIA: Civic Space – lessons learnt from three Asian countries – Myanmar, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

We are sharing a short video commentary on the context between authoritarianism and democracy in three Asian countries, which are facing unprecedented struggles between the forces which represented au...

SRI LANKA: The most important step in the fight against corruption

Due to the recent elections, there is now a great expectation for some decisive change. Everybody agrees that the election results show a very definite rejection of the old way, the old leadership, an...

SRI LANKA: Election Result 2024 – An Opportunity for Democracy

Decisive Opportunity for Democracy- Rule of Law- Protection of Human Rights and End Corruption. Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) Congratulate the Sri Lankan People for their BOLD DECISION to Prote...

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවඃ 2024 මැතිවරණ ප්‍රතිපලය

ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය -නීතියමත පාලනය -මානව හිමිකම් සුරුකීම හා දූෂණය නැති ක...

BANGLADESH: Moment of hope and a new beginning for Bangladesh

The people of Bangladesh have created an opportunity for themselves by way of a mass intervention in order to oust the rule of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and as a result, she has fled the co...

SRI LANKA: Respect the decision of the Supreme Court: The Honourable Speaker is not infallible

In a speech read to the Parliament today, the honourable Prime Minister challenged the validity of the interim order issued by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, stopping the incumbent Inspector General ...

ශ්‍රීලංකා: ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ අතුරු නියෝගයෙන් පසු පොලිස් නායකත්වයේ ඇති විය යුතු වෙනස

පොලිස්පතිගේ වැඩ තහනම් කිරීමේ අතුරු නියෝගය තුලින් අතිශයින් අනාගතය කෙරෙහි බ...

BANGLADESH: Stop judicial harassment of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus

A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission & CIVICUS CIVICUS Global Civil Society Alliance and the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) call on the Bangladeshi authorities to immediate...

SRI LANKA: The response of Judicial Service Association of Sri Lanka to the statement made by the Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe on 19th of June

A statement from the Judicial Service Association of Sri Lanka Published by News First forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission We are forwarding below the report of the News First published o...

NEPAL: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS, MEDIA GROUP CHAIR TARGETED TO SILENCE DISSENT WHILE PROTESTS DISRUPTED

A Statement from CIVICUS forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission The state of civic space in Nepal is rated as ‘obstructed’ by the CIVICUS Monitor. Documented violations of fundamental free...

SRI LANKA: A recording of a group discussion on ways to deal with the challenges to system change caused by a bad constitution

 The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to share with you the following video produced by LEADS YouTube Channel.  It is a recording of a conversation among a group of persons interested in pursui...

NEPAL: Personal vendetta against the media

First, they came for the media, and I did not speak out – because I was not a media. Then they came for the civil society, and I did not speak out – because I was not a civil society. Then...

SRI LANKA: Economic, governmental, legal: not three crises but one (Part 02)

A video presentation produced by LEADS YouTube Channel published by the Asian Human Rights Commission The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to share with you the following video produced by LEADS ...

SRI LANKA: Economic, governmental, legal: not three crises but one

(Sharing a link to a video explaining the Sri Lankan crisis of governance, Economy and Rule of Law. This video was prepared as a part of an ongoing discussion on the need of system change) Link to the...