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AUSTRALIA: Asylum seekers denied the right to health

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from The Asylum Seeker Project (http://asp.hothammission.org.au/), in Melbourne, Australia, detailing the plight of seve...

INDIA: Failure of Public Distribution System in Barabanki District, Uttar Pradesh

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) and Aim, Lucknow regarding the acute situation of hunger ...

AUSTRALIA: Asylum seekers denied the right to food

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a local organization, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) (www.asrc.org.au), of the Australian Government’s c...

UPDATE (India): More starvation deaths, more lies in Murshidabad, West Bengal

[Re: HU-02-2006: River erosion continues to swallow lives and livelihoods in Jalangi, Murshidabad;  HU-09-2005: Government action inadequate in providing rehabilitation to displaced hunger victims ...

INDIA: Starving Musahar community face exploitation in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) regarding the acute hunger and exploitation of villagers ...

UPDATE (India): River erosion continues to swallow lives and livelihoods in Jalangi, Murshidabad

[Re: HU-09-2005: UPDATE (India): Government action inadequate in providing rehabilitation to displaced hunger victims and continued starvation death in Murshidabad, West Bengal; HU-07-2005: Starvation...

UPDATE (India): Basic assistance provided by government insufficient in maintaining the livelihoods of indigenous quarry workers in Mirzapur District, Uttar Pradesh

[Re: HA-23-2005: INDIA: Villagers exploited by employment in slave like conditions due to lack of food and terrible living conditions] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has recei...

PAKISTAN: City government forces eviction leaving thousands homeless and without food in Karachi

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the forced eviction of thousands of households in Rehmatya colony by Karachi City Government officials. The co...

UPDATE (Philippines): Local administration still avoiding responsibility in providing appropriate assistance and rehabilitation to victims of hunger

[Re: HU-10-2005: Food assistance assured to families of farmers suffering of hunger in Alabel, Sarangani province, Mindanao; Re: HA-25-2005: Unfairly sacked farm labourers in Mindanao forced to eat po...

INDONESIA: Insufficient government aid results in 55 starvation deaths over the past month in Yahukimo District, Papua Province

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information concerning hunger and the loss of several lives due to starvation in the Yahukimo District, Papua Province, I...

UPDATE (Philippines): Food assistance assured to families of farmers suffering of hunger in Alabel, Sarangani province, Mindanao

[Re: HA-25-2005: Unfairly sacked farm labourers in Mindanao forced to eat poisonous frogs and corncobs due to abject poverty and lack of food] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is...

UPDATE (India): Government action inadequate in providing rehabilitation to displaced hunger victims and continued starvation death in Murshidabad, West Bengal

[Re: HU-07-2005: Starvation deaths continue despite government’s commitment to provide food assistance in West Bengal; UA-161-2005: INDIA: Human rights defender physically assaulted, threatened ...

INDIA: Woman starves to death while her family continues to suffer from hunger in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information from the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR) and other sources regarding the hunger s...

PHILIPPINES: Infant dies of severe malnutrition and a hunger related disease in General Santos City, Mindanao

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that an 11-month-old baby, John Paul Mahinay, died of severe malnutrition and a hunger related disease in General Santos Cit...

PHILIPPINES: Unfairly sacked farm labourers in Mindanao forced to eat poisonous frogs and corncobs due to abject poverty and lack of food

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information that at least seven out of 16 families of farmers who were unfairly dismissed from work at a banana plantatio...

UPDATE (India): Starvation deaths continue in Varanasi

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that according to the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), as well as local media sources, s...

BURMA: WFP says that government of Burma blocking food distribution

Dear friends, The head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) operations in Burma has stated that his organization is struggling to deliver food supplies to areas that are seriously affected by hunger a...

UPDATE (India): Starvation deaths continue despite government’s commitment to provide food assistance in West Bengal

[Re: UA-161-2005: INDIA: Human rights defender physically assaulted, threatened and detained by government officials; HU-04-2005: INDIA: UNICEF still avoiding responsibility in providing assistance to...

UPDATE (Philippines): Three children die at evacuation centre due to hunger; adequate food urgently needed for starving evacuees

[HA-19-2005: Starvation and hunger threaten hundreds of displaced villagers following intense fighting in Maguindanao, Mindanao] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concer...

INDIA: Villagers exploited by employment in slave like conditions due to lack of food and terrible living conditions

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information through the Peoples Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), a human rights organisation based in Uttar ...