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PAKISTAN: The second phase of the 1,400 km Long March has started 

From Karachi to Islamabad a long march has started for the recovery of missing persons from Balochistan The Voice of Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) has started the second phase of the Long March, this ...

NEPAL: Adhikari Couple in Critical Condition 

The health of Mr. Nanda Prasad Adhikari and Mrs. Ganga Maya Adhikari, parents to a murdered son, Krishna Prasad Adhikari, is deteriorating rapidly. According to doctors at Bir Hospital, having  resum...

PAKISTAN: Whereabouts of 9,120 arrestees from Karachi remain unknown 

The suspects are missing after arrest and 150 have been extrajudicially killed during the last three months of the “Karachi operation” The federal government has started an operation in Ka...

PAKISTAN: Freedom from Hunger-privilege granted or acknowledged right? 

“Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food.” Aly Ercelan and Muhammad Ali Shah A recent publicat...

SRI LANKA: ‘We must put a Stop to Torture’ says Eran Wickramaratne, MP 

The following is a translation of a statement made by Eran Wickramaratne, MP, in Parliament on December 3, 2013. Today, I am going to take the opportunity of the short time accorded to me, to speak o...

BANGLADESH: Human Dignity Denied 

The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-008-2013.pdf/view Human Rights Day is being observed in Bangladesh, amidst extreme forms of ...

SRI LANKA: Will international treaties protect human rights in Sri Lanka

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...

INDIA: Challenge the Draconian Black Laws in Meghalaya

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...

INDIA: मानवाधिकार विमर्श में कहाँ खो जाती है तीसरे लिंग की आवाज़ 

माननीय उच्चतम न्यायालय के न्यायमूर्ति के.एस. राधाकृष्णन और ए.के. सिकरी की यु...

ශරී ලංකාව: ණයගැතිබව, හමුදාකරණය, සහ සකල මානව හිමිකම්වලට එරෙහි තර්ජනය 

English The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-006-2013.pdf/view අන්තර්ජාතික මානව හිමිකම...

INDIA: अतिकुपोषित है मध्य प्रदेश का शहरी क्षेत्र 

म.प्र के ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में तो मातृत्व/बाल स्वास्थ एवं पोषण की स्थिति जगज...

SRI LANKA: Indebtedness, militarization, & the threat against all human rights 

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on Human Rights Day Sinhalese The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-006-2013.pdf/...

INDIA: Violent Attack, Arbitrary Detention, Death Threats to activists of Meyor Community, Arunachal Pradesh

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from civil society groups regarding death threats, arbitrary detention and harassment of members of the Meyor community,...

INDIA: Where freedom & dignity remains a mirage 

The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-003-2013.pdf/view Human Rights Day commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of...

NEPAL: Human Rights in Abeyance 

The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-004-2013.pdf/view The dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in May 2012 stalled efforts to...

PAKISTAN: The Country has turned into a Killing Field 

The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-005-2013.pdf/view A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on Human Rights Day AHRC ...

PAKISTAN: A lawyer working for missing persons and a student were abducted and there are reports about military operations in two districts of Balochistan

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a lawyer who was contesting cases of missing persons in the Balochistan High Court and a Baloch child were abducted...

BANGLADESH: UN intervention needed urgently for saving ordinary people’s lives and liberties 

Mr. Oscar Fernández-Taranco Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Office of the Assistant Secretary General United Nations UN Headquarters S-378, New York, NY 10017 USA Tel: +1 212 963 50...

INDIA: अधिकारों की छाँव तले झुलसते बच्चे 

बीते हफ़्तों में चुनावी सरगर्मी के बीच अंतर्राष्ट्रीय बाल अधिकार दिवस अनजान...

SRI LANKA: CHOGM no-show if human rights a no-go

(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 ...