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Your Excellency, On 18 December 2002, the UN General Assembly finally voted, by an overwhelming majority, the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture and Oth...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement issued by Justice Peace Human Development Human Rights Secretariat (SETIK) on the current situat...

Singur, in Hooghly district of West Bengal was in the national news for the resistance by the agrarian populace in Singur against the forceful eviction from their property by the state government. The...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement in the form of an article entitled Beyond Contempt: Meandering Thoughts on Moudud, the Madam, an...

29 November 2006 Geneva The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today called on member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council to closely scrutinise the human rights situation in Sri L...

Dutch and Belgian Lawyers organizations were alarmed by the reports and statements of international and Filipino human rights organizations and various news items about the violence against members of...

After the election of the Philippines, last November 3, 2006, as member of the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), a major United Nations body, the Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Public Statement AI Index: ASA 37/033/2006 (Public) News Service No: 290 8 November 2006 Amnesty International is deeply concerned by reports of the killing today of as many as 6...

We refer to our earlier statement of October 18, 2006, SRI LANKA [AS-254-2006]: “Show cause notice on lawyer Elmo Perera has no basis in law and is an attempt to silence critical voices among th...

This column has emphasized time and time again that the critique advanced of the role and the functioning of the Norwegian led Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) may be justified to some extent, give...

The statement: We reproduce below European Parliamentarian Sajjad Karim’s questions to the European Commissioner for External Relations and her response dated 12 October 2006. The questions addr...

Statement of European Church and Civil Society Organisations We are concerned about the upsurge of politically motivated killings and the constant deterioration of the human rights situation in the Ph...

As the second session of the UN Human Rights Council moves into its final phase, we the undersigned civil society organizations and individuals dedicated to principles of human rights, peace and dem...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement to the Human Rights Council prepared by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for ...

www.lankademocracy.org http://www.uthr.org/bulletins/bul41.htm University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna)Sri Lanka UTHR(J) Information Bulletin No. 41 Date of Release: 14th September  2006 The Wid...

A Forwarded Open Letter to His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapaksa from the International Commission of Jurists Nicholas Howen Secretary-General INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS Commission inter...

The statement: Source: United Nations Human Rights Council Date: 05 Sep 2006 The situation in Sri Lanka has deteriorated significantly since I visited Sri Lanka and met with Government officials, memb...

Mr. Secretary-General, The human rights community of Nepal would like to draw your urgent attention concerning the lack of credible action being taken by the authorities in Nepal to address the cultur...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding a statement from an independent group of Catholic priests regarding the critical situation in the Jaffna conflict area in Sri Lanka...

I write on behalf of Families of the Disappeared. I have seen in the Daily Mirror, Justice Page on August 19, 2006, a letter written by you to the editors of that paper inquiring from them about a pho...