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By Samanthi Dissanayake BBC News Aid agencies in Sri Lanka are assessing their future strategy after the government said it could no longer guarantee the safety of aid workers in rebel-held territory ...
New Government Should Investigate Past Abuses and Prosecute Perpetrators (Kathmandu: September 10, 2008) The new Maoist-led government of Nepal should investigate and prosecute those responsible fo...
A UN media statement: 9 September 2008 -Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed deep concern over escalating and the humanitarian impact of the clashes on civilians. The South Asian nation’...
8 August 2008 – The United Nations refugee agency expressed concern today over the safety of thousands of families fleeing escalating violence in northern Sri Lanka between Government forces and...
By recommending the impeachment of a High Court judge, the Chief Justice of India has revived a dead debate concerning the Indian judiciary. On August 2, 2008 in a letter addressed to the Prime Minist...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an anchor person working for a prominent television channel has incited Muslims in Pakistan to kill – to deva...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that thewhereabouts of Md. Shafik Ullah Monayem, a politician, has not been known for 9 months following an arr...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Guria, a local human rights organisation in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh that a 15-year-old girl was abducted by human t...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed through its local contacts in Rajasthan that a man, Roy Varghese, has been detained in solitary confinement in prison for the l...
The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that the two children of Dr. Afia Sidiqui, who is currently in custody in the United States on charges of assault and attempting to murder me...
The Balochistan police, in a bid to destroy any available evidence, have removed three of the bodies of the five women who were buried alive in Baba Kot, Jafferabad. (For details please refer to the A...
The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to inform you about View of the UNHRC in the matter of the dismissed judge, Mr. Soratha Bandaranayake On the communication bearing No. 1376/2005, in the case o...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was severely tortured by Panadura South Police while he was illegally detained in police custody on August 21...
The UN Human Rights Committee in a View expressed under article 5 (4) of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on Civil and Political Rights held that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has viola...
Prasantha Pradeep Kumara Francis (30) is married, an electrician, a resident of No 09, 3rd Lane, Akkara 35, Ballapitiya, Horana. On 21.08.2008 at about 9:00 am Prasantha went to the Panadura Police s...
Dr. Yakin Ertürk United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women C/o OHCHR-UNOG 1211 Geneva 10 SWITZERLAND Fax: +41 22 917 9016 Dear Dr. Ertürk Re: The burial of five women while We are ...
The forced disappearances of political opponents by the state intelligence services continues in spite of newly elected government’s claims that the issue will be solved when the coalition partn...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, which consists of the Appellate Division and the High Court Division, has held that no court in the country has jurisdiction to entertain bai...
The government of Bangladesh has directed its civil administration to work in collaboration with the officers of the “Joint Forces” stationed across the country. The government made the de...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the ill-treatment of a woman by police officers and jailors in late June 2008. The lady was involved in a priv...
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