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PHILIPPINES: Children suffer inhuman treatment, severe malnutrition due to government neglect

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) strongly condemns the Manila City government for its apparent outright neglect to improve conditions at the Reception and Action Center (RAC), a public child c...

PAKISTAN: Government must restore the arbitrarily suspended broadcast license of ‘ARY News’ with immediate effect

The government of Pakistan  through its regulatory body, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has banned a local television channel, the “ARY News” and has arbitrarily suspe...

INDIA: Dalits snare trapped

The recent escalation in atrocities committed on Dalits is surprising even for Bihar, a province notorious for crimes against members of the community. The only things worse than the state’s failure...

SRI LANKA: Is it a crime to call the President an Ekadhipathiya – ඒකාධිපතියා (Authoritarian ruler)?

by Basil Fernando On the 19th October 2014 BBC Sinhala Service broadcast, the United National Party Member of Parliament Ranjan Ramanayake, complained that there was a plan to assassinate him due to h...

ประเทศไทย / พม่า: กรณี การปฏิบัติหน้าที่ของเจ้าหน้าที่และสื่อมวลชนใน คดีเกาะเต่า

แถลงการณ์ ขอ ให้ยุติการกระทำที่ละเมิดสิทธิของครอบครัวผู้ เสียหายและผ...

THAILAND / BURMA: Violation of the rights of the victims and alleged offenders must be stopped:The performance of the officials and media in Koh Tao murder case

Public Statement Human Rights Lawyers Association (HRLA) and Union for Civil Liberties (UCL) October15, 2014 Violation of the rights of the victims and alleged offenders must be stopped:The performanc...

PHILIPPINES: Two military sergeants, one captain and others indicted for torture

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that after three years of investigation, the soldiers who tortured a man and set him on fire, have been indicted for torture...

WORLD: Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives launches its new website

Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives a path breaking initiative in the discourse of torture prevention wishes to inform our readers of the launching of its new website. The websitewww.torturemag.org...

INDIA: बच्चों की शिक्षा को गंभीरता से लेने का सबसे सही वक्त

भारत के कैलाश सत्यार्थी और पाकिस्तान के मलाला दोनों को बच्चों के अधिकार और श...

HONG KONG/PHILIPPINES: Poverty reflects a failure of the government not the person

by Danilo Reyes (Note: this article was first published in the October 12, 2014 issue of the Sunday Examiner) Poverty reflects a failure of the government not the person. Seven years ago, my first cou...

ASIA: Poetry reading and discussion with Professor. K G Sankarapillai 

(Hong Kong, October 17, 2014) Professor K. G. Sankarapillai is one of the best known poets in India and he has won a number of prestigious awards for his poetry. He writes in Malayalam language. His p...

SRI LANKA: The Constitution as a cause for the violence and bloodshed

by Basil Fernando As the possibility of an election has become a “hot topic” of the day, with it has emerged the problem of the 1978 Constitution and the system of the Executive Presidency, as a s...

PAKISTAN: Release with immediate effect, Baba Jan and other eleven human rights defenders, sentenced for life imprisonment by an anti-terrorism court

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that 12 human rights defenders including Baba Jan, a prominent human rights defender, have been sentenced to imprisonmen...

PHILIPPINES: Killing of two rehabilitation workers and two political activists

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern regarding the continuing targeted killings of human rights defenders and political activists. In August, four persons...

ASIA: Weekly Roundup, Episode 49

In this week’s episode of the Weekly Roundup, AHRC TV brings you special coverage of the third annual Asian Alliance Against Torture & Ill-Treatment (AAATI) conference that took place recently. ...

INDIA: Denial won’t wish away “Indian” racism against North Easterners

by Avinash Pandey They did not speak Kannada, the language of the state they live in. They, therefore, were “legitimate” targets of violence in a city that has benefitted the most from India’s s...

HONG KONG: A poetic tribute to Malala

The Power of Protest (a poem dedicated to youngest Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai ) by Basil Fernando Right Livelihood Laureate This protest comes From Mother earth- like the rush of water falling fr...

HONG KONG: Torture is a crime punishable with life imprisonment

As public complaints have begun to emerge about the use of excessive force by some officers of the Hong Kong Police, it is quite in order, to recall the law on the crime of torture in Hong Kong. There...

CAMBODIA: Killing of Taing Try a journalist investigating illegal wood transportation in Kratie province

A Statement from the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)   Date:                                 15 Octo...

HONG KONG: OCLP strongly condemns police use of extrajudicial punishment and demands investigation of use of excessive force against protesters

This morning, in an attempt to forcibly disperse the crowd outside the Chief Executive’s Office at Lung Wo Road and the adjacent underpass, police exercised excessive force. The most unacceptabl...