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With reference to above, we would like to draw your attention on the incident of malnutrition death of two years child Prem in Madhya Pradesh state capital, Bhopal. The first hand analysis of the caus...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a Dalit community has been living under a complete economic and social boycott levied against them by their villa...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that a child died of malnutrition associated with fever, diarrhoea and breathing difficulty on June 17, 2009. The human rig...

This article by Kishali Pinto Jayawardene appeared in the Sunday Times on July 19, 2009 ¡V Editor). The recommendation of the 2006 Commission to Investigate Serious Human Rights Violations (the Udala...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that no investigation is being done into the rape and murder of a woman last year by a group of men, which included tw...

The International Press , which is comprised of representatives from the world¡¦s media community, including Reporters Without Borders, is extremely concerned over the ongoing spate of violent attac...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) would like to report that a police inspector being tried for the assassination of Gerald Perera is still working for the state as an officer. T...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a local feudal leader and his family, the Khans, who control affairs in Ingoli village, Gujarat, are behind the s...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a human rights group based in Madhya Pradesh Spandan, Samaj Seva Samiti (Spandan) regarding three children who died...

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2009 By Basil Fernando (July 16, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) “Lasantha from the Leader paper went overboard. I took care of him. Poddala agitated and his leg was broken. Now a fe...

The International Bar Association Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) is alarmed by the recent publication of the article ‘Traitors in black coats flocked together?’ on the website of the Sri ...

In the follow up to the love marriage of Miss Firdous Shaheen with Mr. Zamir Lone, the administration of Pakistani Kashmir recovered Mrs Rshida and Rubina, Zamir’s mother and sister on July 12, after...

SUNDAY, JULY 12, 2009 By Basil Fernando (July 13, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Lawyers are officers of the court. Any attack on them in relation to their official functions . The publication of a stat...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from South China Morning Post. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from South China Morning P...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from V. Anandasangaree, President ¡V TULF to His Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of S...

On July 8, 2009, late at night, around 60 persons, claiming themselves as Taliban, attacked the house of a Journalist, Mr. Rahman Bunaireeri, at Poland, Buner district, North West Frontier Province (N...

The concern expressed by the Kerala State Police Officers’ Association regarding the safety of police officers in the backdrop of the recurring incidents of assaults upon police officers in the ...

The UK government should order an independent judicial inquiry into mounting evidence that its security services and law enforcement agencies were complicit in the torture of terrorism suspects in Pak...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Human Rights Initiative (HRI), a human rights organisation based in Imphal, Manipur regarding the murder of two...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ———— A Statement from Human Ri...