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A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission and Advocacy Forum Following the adoption of the outcome report on the UPR of Nepal, Advocacy Forum (AF) and the Asian Human Rights Commission (A...

Dear friends,  A journalist has been implicated in a fabricated case of murder by persons from the ruling party. The journalist was assisting a rape victim (a 14-year-old girl) and her family in the ...

A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission and Advocacy Forum During the interactive dialogue of the Universal Periodic Review, continuous impunity for grave human rights violations had ap...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that Uparagadala village, affected by water borne diseases such as diarrhea since 2009, still faces a lack of safe drinking water and...

(Hong Kong, June17, 2011)  The Asian Human Rights Commission which has documented over 1500 cases of torture and ill treatment by the Sri Lankan police has now compiled a report of 323 cases. In this...

A Statement from Jihad Watch forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Catholic woman kidnapped, drugged, and forced to convert to Islam and marry a Muslim may now be sold abroad In Pak...

Months after the 18th Amendment: Is the Executive really more accountable to Parliament? The 18th Amendment, we were told, would make the President more accountable to Parliament. The Editorial of the...

The correspondents of international media houses have been warned not to attend meetings or gatherings at the premises of the different press clubs in the major cities of the country. A circular from ...

We reproduce below the translation of the affidavit written by Rizana Nafeek on January 30, 2007 which was published by the Asian Tribune today. This affidavit gives, for the first time, her version o...

An article from openDemocracy forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission Lutz Oette, 19th May 2011 Published on openDemocracy (http://www.opendemocracy.net) The recommendations in the Report of th...

FRIDAY FORUM – PRESS RELEASE- Leadership Training for University Entrants. 9th June 2011 The decision in the Supreme Court dismissing, without stating reasons, all the petitions against the prog...

The abduction, detention, cruel and inhuman treatment and interrogation of human rights defender William Gomes  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has previously reported on the brutal attack o...

A Statement from the Friday Forum forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission We wish to question what human rights protection experience and credentials they bring to the Human Rights Commission. ...

Former Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala on behalf of ‘Friday Forum’, a collective of concerned citizens calls upon all parties to act with restraint in responding to the Secretary General of ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from Faisalabad city of Punjab province, the second largest industrial and commercial city of the country that a plan has been chalked out to...

(Hong Kong, June 11, 2011) This is a discussion on the serious crisis of law in Sri Lanka. 33 years of the promulgation of the present Constitution, what is legal and what is not has been obliterated ...

Paul Newman Bangalore10 Jun 2011 — Posted 03-Jun-2011 — Vol 2 Issue 22 — During the war in Bosnia, the world was horrified by stories of war babies as women were the prime target of ...

(Hong Kong, June 10, 2011) The people of Pakistan were stunned when they watched the video showing Rangers personnel killing a young man in cold blood in a public place during the night of 8 June 2011...

People of Pakistan were stunned when they watched the video showing Rangers personnel killing a young man in cold blood in a public place during the night of 8 June 2011. Passers-by gathered around th...

Reporters Without Borders / Reporters sans frontières 06-08-2011 (Audio interview available on the website (Sinhala / English) Eng : http://en.rsf.org/sri-lanka-interview-with-wife-of-cartoonist-08-...