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The current wave of violence in Orissa, India is not surprising. After all, Orissa is a state in India ruled by the Biju Janata Dal (BJD). The BJD has remained in power with the support of the Bharati...

[NOTICE: The AHRC has developed this automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Bangladesh auth...

[NOTICE: The AHRC has developed this automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Pakistan author...

A Bench of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on 28 August issued a rule against the government asking the authorities to explain why the Voluntary Disclosure Ordinance 2008, u...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) and the International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN) hasten to bring to your urgent attenti...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police officers allegedly assaulted a man who intervened in another assault by the officers on 23 July 2008 in Sri ...

Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:06:57 +0100 From: CommonwealthNet <CommonwealthNet@interights.org Subject: Sri Lanka found guilty of serious human rights abuses by UN Human Rights Committee In a case bro...

The United Nations Human Rights Committee’s latest view issued in July 2008 on a communication filed by a Sri Lankan against the state of Sri Lanka holds the state to have violated article 6 of ...

Muneer A. Malik   Published by Pakistan Law House A book on one of the most amazing movements in the defense of democracy, rule of law and human rights to emerge in recent times is the Pakistan L...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police in Sri Lanka have allegedly ill- treated and threatened a man with imposition of false charges  dating from...

People of conscience are perturbed that the current war in the LTTE occupied Vanni places the majority of civilians at tremendous risk. Unarmed and trapped in this war zone, large numbers of civilians...

A Bangladeshi rights group has challenged the legality of the Truth and Accountability Commission at the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, local media reported yesterday. Accordi...

[NOTICE: The AHRC has developed this automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Pakistan author...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has previously reported the case of three-year-old Pritam who died of malnutrition. Pritam suffered from malnutrition for seven months until he d...

(The Asian Human Rights Commission reproduced below a petition from the condemned prisoners from Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi, which we received from the NNI news agency of Pakistan). To, Mr Yousaf Raza Gi...

The Asian Human Rights Commission and its sister-organisation have nominated prominent Pakistani lawyer and human rights defender, Mr. Aitzaz Ahsan, for the prestigious 2008 United Nations Human Right...

In our statement, SRI LANKA: Permanent loss of sight in one eye due to cruel and inhuman treatment, (http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2008statements/1632/) we earlier reported the permane...

The Asian Human Rights Commission salutes and congratulates the people of Pakistan for their resilient and determined struggle to oust the dictator, General (Ret.) Pervez Musharraf from the post of pr...

At the last Human Rights Council session a spokesman for Sri Lanka suggested to the United Kingdom that it may consider holding a referendum for having a written constitution. One wonders whether the ...

Reporters Without Borders calls on the Sri Lankan government to release J. S. Tissainayagam, a Tamil journalist who has been held since March. A government minister has just said he is charged with te...