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The newly elected Government of Bangladesh led by the Bangladesh Awami League has announced its decision of withdrawing “politically motivated” cases that are pending before the courts acr...

On 26 January, 2009 a 21-year-old girl was covered in petrol by her husband and her in-laws and burned to death. Mrs. Bisma Bibi, resident of Chak number 86, NB Sargodha, Punjab, had been married to o...

(Hong Kong, February 19, 2009) Member of Parliament, Mr. Saber Hossain Chowdhury has filed a notice yesterday to the parliament, proposing a Private Member Bill to incorporate the United Nations Conve...

A group of domestic helpers from Sri Lanka interviewed last week in Hong Kong expressed views which are representative of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, as well as those aspiring to be migr...

The constitutional petition No. D-2417/2008, regarding the eight women and four children who were made hostages by the police of four districts of Sindh province, for the surrender of a robber was hea...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault and subsequent death of a man in Wariyapola prison on December 22, 2008. He was severely assault...

*COLOMBO**, 16 February 2009:* The United Nations’ concern for the welfare of the civilian population caught up in the fighting has heightened based on reports received in the last few days. Whi...

Is there a relation between the residents of the Gaza strip and the Indians? Other than for the fact that the Government of India supports the Palestinian cause, there is no apparent connection betwee...

In a follow up development of the arrest of four teenagers and a man on blasphemy charge the representative of the Punjab provincial government, Mr. Syed Saqlain Shah, a member of the National Assembl...

Background The Human Rights Council will be addressing human rights education in its upcoming 10th session (Geneva, 2?7 March 2009). It will discuss specifically a Declaration on Human Rights Educatio...

The alleged killers of a number of people, including a 70-year-old man, have been released from remand prison on the orders of another civilian. The man who arranged their release is the brother of a ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Vilgamuva police officers have assaulted a school child and arbitrarily detained him in custody. The Officer-in- ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission welcomes the statement made by ten UN experts on the 9th February, 2009 expressing deep concern at the suppression of criticism and unabated impunity.  In the first ...

LAHORE, February 12, 2009: Five Ahmadis detained on charges of blasphemy in Layyah district have been held without virtually any proof or witnesses, the Human Rights Commission (HRCP) said on Thursday...

To: asie@rsf.org Reporters Without Borders Mr. Anura Priyadarshana Yapa Media and Information Minister Colombo Sri Lanka Paris, 10 February 2009 Dear Minister, We are dismayed to learn that the BBC ...

The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Ms. Margaret Sekaggya; the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Mr. ...

05.02.2009 *The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) is deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation prevailing in Sri Lanka. The disregard for humanitarian standards shown by comba...

The long bloody civil war in Sri Lanka seems to be climaxing in a surge of violence. Like many in this region, I have been following these developments with growing alarm. A military outcome is possib...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Savitribhai Phule Women’s Association and the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) ab...

IRIN, is the humanitarian news and analysis service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. COLOMBO, 6 February 2009 (IRIN) – Some 1,600 civilians escaped fighting in the ...