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In the case of Uzma Ayub, repeatedly raped for one year by several policemen and one army serviceman, the police and perpetrators have requested the court to grant permission to settle the case outsid...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from Mrs. Sandya Eknaligoda to Mr. Joao Nataf, Secretary to the United Nations Committee again...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the International Dalit Solidarity Network. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from ...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the International Dalit Solidarity Network. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from ...

The Malaysian government rushed through the Peaceful Assembly Bill at the Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives, the lower house) on 29 November 2011. Instead of providing safeguards to the right to ...

(Hong Kong, December 1, 2011) Janasansadaya, a well-known human rights organization in Sri Lanka has produced a short interview with Basil Fernando of the Asian Human Rights Commission. In the intervi...

Farzana Ali Khan ”Those who are really concerned about me must pay a serious attention while those do not care should not waste their time by coming to me.” Can you believe, who said this?...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Council of Europe. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ———...

Note: The AHRC would be grateful if journalist and human rights organisations could assist us to correct the list about the killing of the journalists which would help us for issuing the statement on ...

The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) is a subject of severe criticism by human rights activists and jurists in India and across the world. The alarming number of human rights abuses com...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Burmese military attached to the Mu Bum post abducted a 28-year-old woman and allegedly gang-raped her on 28 Oc...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression to the Governor of Odisha state govern...

First round The Committee against Torture (hereinafter – “the Committee”), presided over by Mr Claudio GROSSMAN1 , began its consideration of the third and fourth periodic reports submi...

11 year old Irum Naz was married with 61 year old man and she curses her parents day and night for putting their own daughter to misery Farzana Ali Khan  Throughout the world, marriage is regarded as...

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women Incidences of violence against women are not isolated or sporadic, but a daily o...

The bullet riddled bodies of two disappeared persons were found from different parts of the Balochistan province. The bodies have been identified as of Jalil Reki and Seth Younus Baloch both of whom w...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Committee against Torture at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Asian Human Rights Commission...

Farzana Ali Khan Violence against women is a major health and human rights concern in Pakistan. Women can experience sexual, physical or mental abuse throughout their life cycle, in infancy, childhood...

(Hong Kong, November 24, 2011) The Asian Human Rights Commission today welcomed a finding from a United Nations body that the imprisonment of two men in Burma is arbitrary, and iterated calls for thei...

Farzana Ali Khan SWAT: Despite losing the Nobel Peace Laureate prize, Malalai Yousafzai, a grade 8 student from Gulkada, Mingora is determined to fight for the education of girls and fulfill the noble...