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What plans are underway to deal with the aftermath of this year’s flood?   Baseer Naveed with Stewart Sloan Ongoing flooding due to monsoon rains has inundated the entirety of the Sindh pro...

The Asian Human Rights Commission recently received from human rights defenders in Burma detailed documentation on the cases of five children, four boys and one girl, whom a trafficker in July 2011 so...

The recent bomb blast near the Delhi High Court has once again revived the debate regarding crime control and law and order in India. Acts of violence in all forms must be condemned. In that, the very...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Union for Civil Liberty (UCL) to Pri...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was drowned by police officers while in their custody. He was arrested on 11 August 2011 by the police offi...

A Joint Open Letter produced by NGOs from around the world H.E. Laura Dupuy Lasserre  President of the United Nations Human Rights Council  Email: hrcpresidency@ohchr.org  Fax: +41-(0)22-917-0490 ...

Erik Wendt & Therese Rytter, Rehabilitation & Research Centre for Torture Victims, Denmark It is well documented that torture, enforced disappearances and extra-judicial executions are carried...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from the Committee to Protect Journalists to the Prime Minister of Nepal, expressing concerns ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Awami Tahreek. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A ...

Dear friends,  Ms. Weerawila Gamage Sepalika (40) was illegally arrested and severely tortured by the police officers attached to the Ambalantota Police Station on 18 May 2011. Four police officers i...

Dear friends,  The Manokwari district court in West Papua has sentenced two peaceful activists to seven and a half months and two years imprisonment respectively. The trial was characterised by a ser...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) welcomes the decision of the Department of Justice (DoJ) after its investigation to prosecute the policemen seen in a torture video in August 2010 for violatio...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to express its concern regarding the Attorney General of Nepal’s recent announcement that the government is preparing to go ahead with its plan to...

An Article by J. C. Weliamuna forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission JC Weliamuna (Eisenhower Fellow, Senior Ashoka Fellow & Constitutional Lawyer) In legal and political literature, the ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Ms. Kande Shriyani (33) of Sri Darmadara Mawatha, Godaudawatha, Hegoda, Rathgama in the district of Galle migrate...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a Pakistani businessman will be executed on September 21 on the charges of smuggling drugs into China. The death ...

A Joint Open Letter produced by NGOs from around the world to the 18th Human Rights Council To Permanent Representatives of all member states of the UN Human Rights Council Geneva, 14 September 2011, ...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Tamil National Alliance. ————- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-FST-046-2011 September 14, 2011 A Statement f...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a Filipina domestic worker, who was falsely charged for theft, was convicted in trial in absentia. She is presently det...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good’s website, written by Father Thomas R. von Behren. Asian Human Rights Commission ...