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ASIA: World’s economic powerhouse is home to hunger 

The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-007-2013.pdf/view The tale of hunger in Asia is a troubling one. It tells of people who have...

INDONESIA: Man in Bau-Bau dies under police custody, witnesses at high risk

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) concerning the death of a man in police custod...

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,...

PHILIPPINES: Human Rights Report for 2013 

The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-001-2013.pdf/view (Hong Kong, December 8, 2013) On the occasion of the Human Rights Day, 201...

INDONESIA: Democracy incomplete in 15 years of reform 

The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-002-2013.pdf/view In commemoration of Human Rights Day on December 10, the Asian Human Right...

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 ...

SOUTH KOREA: Civil society launches ‘Samsung Labor Watch’

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release and declaration from ‘Samsung Labor Watch’. For more information, please directl...

ASIA: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela — AHRC salutes a great man, embraces his Legacy 

The Asian Human Rights Commission joins all people across the world to salute Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela of South Africa, who passed away at the age of 95 yesterday. In the person of Nelson Mandela the...

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 ...

SRI LANKA/AUSTRALIA: PM’s stance validates torture

At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka at the weekend, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that while his government ”deplores the use of torture, we accept that sometimes, in ...

SRI LANKA: The Unfair impeachment of the Chief Justice?

Unfair Inquiry of only “Six Hours“- detailed facts & truths. The most astonishing, outrageous and mysterious aspect of the Impeachment proceedings is: How? The entirety of the ‘a...

PAKISTAN: Two young scheduled caste Hindu women were raped by Muslim landlords; one of them was later murdered

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two scheduled caste, Hindu women were raped by their Muslim landlords before their family members. Later on, one of...

INDIA: चुनावी राजनीति में कहाँ गुम हो गए बच्चों के हक के सवाल? 

आजकल मध्यप्रदेश के चुनावी समर में कुपोषण एक बार फिर प्रमुख चुनावी मुद्दा है|...

PAKISTAN: During the last eleven months 7,170 persons were killed and 8,746 were injured in different acts of violence

The killings were the outcome of bomb blasts, terrorist attacks, sectarian violence, targeted killings, operations by law enforcement agencies and US drone attacks During the year up to November 30 th...

INDIA: Implementation of the National Food Security Bill – will the poor benefit?[i] 

In a previous article I argued that India’s “rights revolution” has so far mostly existed on paper without significant improvements in the conditions of the poor. In this article I e...