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INDIA: AFAD Statement on Traffic Police Abuses Experienced by Parvez Imroz, Council Member from Jammu and Kashmir

The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) denounces the ill treatment and physical manhandling by a traffic officer against AFAD Council member and Advocate Parvez Imroz, Chair of...

SRI LANKA: Another attempt to harass, Gunaratne Wanninayaka, the President of Colombo Magistrate’s Court Lawyer’s Association 

Mr. Wanninayaka has complained to the police authorities that on June 24 some officers visited his house and made inquiries about him. Later at around 2:30 pm on the same day, two officers went to the...

PAKISTAN: Sister of the slain women’s rights defender also murdered by the same police constable

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the murder of Ms. Shamim Akhter (50), who worked for the Social Welfare organization in Tando Jam, Sin...

INDONESIA: A 72-year-old man and his son sentenced to death penalty on fabricated charges

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a local NGO, the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS), regarding the fabrication of cha...

PAKISTAN: Brutal murder of a 13 year old boy by the wife of a feudal lord

Two brothers, Javed, age 9 and Jameel, age 13 were taken against their parents’ will from their village, Kotla Rahm Ali Shah, to go work in Multan as servants in the home of Faheem Abbas Shah, t...

INDIA: The promise and pretence of democracy 

The Constitution of India explicitly states that the right to life, equality, education, and to participate in elections as fundamental rights. When these rights are violated, the Indian system does n...

PAKISTAN: A women’s rights defender has been brutally killed by her husband and a police official

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a women’s rights defender has been killed by her husband, who acted with the connivance of a police head constabl...

INDIA: क्यों तोड़ना चाहिए रोज़गार गारंटी क़ानून? (मनरेगा 6) 

महात्मा गांधी ग्रामीण रोजगार गारंटी योजना केवल एक आर्थिक गतिविधि नहीं है. इ...

INDIA: Invest in Food Security for your own good 

The National Food Security Bill (NFSB) has been the center of much debate since it was introduced in Parliament by the UPA government in December 2011. One of the most persistent arguments against a f...

SOUTH KOREA: The National Intelligence Service is a root cause of the crackdown on democracy and human rights 

The country has entered into political turmoil. It is because of a series of allegations of illegal interference by the National Intelligence Service (NIS) in the Presidential election, held in Decemb...

INDIA: पूर्वांचल: जहाँ बच जाना मौत से भी बदतर सजा है 

प्राकृतिक आपदाएं बता कर नहीं आतीं, न ही अक्सर उनका सटीक पूर्वानुमान कर पाना ...

PAKISTAN: NUJ calls for support for BBC Pakistan journalists

The NUJ is seriously concerned about the job cuts at BBC Pakistan and offers support and assistance to colleagues. The service in Pakistan is linked to the BBC World Service which is a UK public funde...

PAKISTAN: Stand with Malala

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward an appeal from Citizen Rights Sustainable Development (CRSD). FORWARDED APPEAL: At this moment there are 57 million children wi...

BANGLADESH: Torture survivors and relatives of custodial murders share their gruesome experiences in People’s Tribunal 

A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission and Odhikar A survivor of torture, relatives of a survivor and of two victims of death, who were tortured to death in police custody, have share...

PAKISTAN: the AHRC condemns the Taliban bomb attack on the acting Chief Justice of Sindh 

The acting Chief Justice of Sindh provincial High Court, Justice Maqbool Baqar, was attacked and seriously injured this morning in a bomb blast by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The convoy of th...

PAKISTAN: Civil Society urges Govt. enact law to end Torture 

International Day in support of Torture victims Rights-based organizations, HR defenders vow to synergies efforts to combat Torture LAHORE:(26th June 2013):“The large scale instances of torture...

INDONESIA: Special report on practice of torture in Indonesia released 

(Hong Kong/Padang, Indonesia, June 26, 2013) To mark the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) released an advance version of its special report...

SRI LANKA: Police arbitrarily detained three children overnight and a Christian priest for 11 days for challenging the detention of children

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the police officers of the Kandy Headquarters Police Station detained three underage children in a police cell over...

PAKISTAN: A Christian lawyer has been threatened with dire consequences for assisting three Christian women, who were stripped naked and paraded on the street 

A Christian lawyer has been threatened with dire consequences if he continues to provide legal assistance to three Christian women who were stripped naked and paraded on the street by the henchmen of ...

INDIA: The pain of progress 

The United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture observed around the world on June 26 serves as a sober reminder of the reality that this ugly side of humanity is still very much ...