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The people of Bangladesh are scared. Incidents of abduction by plain-clothed people, who often claim to be law-enforcing agents of the country, are ongoing, without any indication of being on the want...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Abasinghegedara Mahesh Niroshan Palamakumbura, a 19-year-old machine operator was illegally arrested, severely ...

Dear friends, On 2 August 2012 around 3,000 people from Thambutthegama took part in a demonstration in front of the Thambuththegama Police Station. The demonstrators were carrying the dead body of a l...

The Federation of the University Teacher’s Association (FUTA) deserves to be congratulated for organising a historic convention on August 17, 2012 on the current status and future direction of s...

Pakistan is known in the international community and declared in the country’s Constitution as an Islamic nation where Islam is glorified as the superb religion and its followers are pious Musli...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. G R Sampath Prasanna Piyadasa (37) is a three wheeler driver by profession. After witnessing a group of unknown...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Sundaram Sathies Kumar was a detainee under the prison authorities of Sri Lanka. As a result of severe torture ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received a report from Guria – a human rights organization based in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, working against human trafficking – that det...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Gallalagama Arachchige Thilanka Niroshan Gamaarachchi of Bandaragama in the Kalutara District was illegally arr...

NfR – Net working for rights in Sri Lanka -Exile network for media and human rights in Sri Lanka Press release/ 30 August 2012, International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances In 201...

To: The Member Churches and National Council of Churches in Pakistan Greetings of Peace! It is with great shock and disbelief that we received the news about Rimsha, a Christian girl with Down syndrom...

The Asian Human Rights Commission’s reply to a letter from the Secretary to the Honourable President of Sri Lanka For the full dossier on Rizana Nafeek’s case please see here. We reproduc...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Sivapalan Pradeepan (28) of Batticaloa was arrested shortly after his brother-in-law by officers of the Terrori...

The Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) held a historic convention at the Western Province Aesthetic Centre on 17 August 2012 on the current status and future directions of St...

रोली शिवहरे भारत में महिलाओं के विरुद्ध घरेलू हिंसा में निरंतर वृद्धि हो रह�...

250 persons standing in the raising waters of Omkareshwar Dam willing to be drowned should their legitimate demands are not met. It may be noted that the water level of the Omkareshwar dam has been ke...

Asia Evangelical Alliance calls for Global Solidarity against Controversial Law The global Christian community is deeply concerned over the fate of Rifat Masih, an 11 year old Pakistani Christian girl...

Publicly disseminated last September, the National Nutrition Survey reports mass deprivation from adequate nutrition. Along comes another dire news from Save the Children — over 90 percent of in...

‘You should write a political marsia for L.K. Advani’, suggested a friend of mine last Friday. ‘A political marsia’, he repeated, ‘Arabic for elegy, a dirge or a funera...

Over the past week, thousands of people hurriedly returned to their homes in the northeastern states, fearing for their safety in the rest of the country. The numbers of those fleeing was so high that...