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Billions of rupees had been wasted on government propaganda exercises but the Meteorological Department was not properly equipped and the Disaster Management Website, too, remained outdated due to lac...

Dear friends,  We wish to share with you the following statement from the Think Centre, an independent non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Singapore. First registered as a business (RCB) on 16 Jul...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following flyer on the occasion of releasing a new book on the police and rights authored by Frank de Silva, a forme...

An Independent Peoples’ Tribunal was jointly organised by Human Rights Law Network, All India Network of NGOs and Individuals working with National / State  Human Rights Institutions [AiNNI], ...

1. Legs are shaking and heart is trembling. This time, with good fortune, we could have saved one’s life. If we did not force emergency services up to the mountain, having believed what we were ...

PRESS RELEASE December 13, 2013 Three (3) Muslim victims of arbitrary arrest and detention were released last December 10, 2013, Human Rights Day after the Taguig Regional Trial Court’s decision...

Sri Lanka’s ratifications of United Nations human rights conventions signal a certain willingness to adhere to the UN treaties and to be guided by international law. But the record of actual com...

PRESS RELEASE, December 10, 2013 Thma-U-Rangli-Juki (TUR), a progressive people’s organisation, will hold a street corner meeting on the draconian Meghalaya Preventive Detention Act (MPDA), 1995...

The important role of parliamentarians in the Pacific needs to be bolstered so as recent commitments to advance reproductive health and rights can be realised. That’s the message of the Asian Fo...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release and declaration from ‘Samsung Labor Watch’. For more information, please directl...

(This article was first published by the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific (http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au) on November 7, 2013) There is little point in delegates ...

At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka at the weekend, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that while his government ”deplores the use of torture, we accept that sometimes, in ...

Unfair Inquiry of only “Six Hours“- detailed facts & truths. The most astonishing, outrageous and mysterious aspect of the Impeachment proceedings is: How? The entirety of the ‘a...

Introduction: Mr Madari Venkatesh, Ph.D (Chemistry), third year student, in the Advanced Centre for Research in High Energy Materials (ACRHEM), University of Hyderabad, committed suicide by consuming ...

Dear friends,  We wish to share with you the following article from the Lawyer’s Weekly. Asian Human Rights Commission  Hong Kong ————- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-FAT-0...

Dear friends,  We wish to share with you the following article from the Financial Times (Daily FT), written by Ashwin Hemmathagama. Asian Human Rights Commission  Hong Kong ———R...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Sri Lanka Brief. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward an appeal coming from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka received through the Sri Lanka Campaign Newsletter. If you wish to...

THE widow of one of the journalists killed in the brutal 2009 Maguindanao massacre who has fled to Hong Kong believes the victims will not get justice under the Aquino administration. Myrna Reblando, ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding to you an appeal regarding the fabrication of charges, death threats and forcible eviction of indigenous people from their ancestra...