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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that four police officers from the Wanathawilluwa Police Station arrested a farmer from his house and took him away duri...

The last few days saw developments in trade union protests against the attacks on employees of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC). Ever since the incident that was provoked by Minister Mervyn...

The taking of oaths by members of parliament on March 17th marks an important moment in the struggle against the military dictatorship which has caused a state of anarchy in Pakistan. Legally speaking...

The cultural heritage of cruelty and repression (Paper 2) **************************** The organisation of pre-modern Sri Lankan society was based on the caste system Basil Fernando These days there a...

On 13 March, the Bangladesh Government’s spokespersons made their official comments on the human rights report published by the Department of State of the government of the United States of America. ...

A media report implies serious questions about the credibility of Bangladesh’s criminal justice system, including the investigation, prosecution and the judiciary, as well as the qualifications of th...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-PAP-002-2008 March 14, 2008 A Paper by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Caste of mind and the ‘silly season’ (The cultural heritage of cruelty and re...

Reporters without Borders is concerned about the fate of five Tamil journalists arrested by anti-terrorist police in Colombo in the past six days and urges the Sri Lankan authorities to explain why th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Mohammad Khan Lund, a human rights activist is presently in Deeplo Jail after being implicated in 57 cases alle...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food in his report to the Seventh UN Human Rights Council has expressed serious concerns regarding the right to food in India. The report dated February 29,...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organization in West Bengal, regarding the alleged fake encounter killing of a man by t...

As the Human Rights Council meeting was in session the spokesmen for the Sri Lankan government have been quite busy, judging by the number of statements circulated through the internet that are trying...

CMU STATEMENT President Mahinda Rajapakse’s New Year message to the nation requires consideration in relation to the prospect that he has held out to the people of this country for this year. This is...

Posted on March 9, 2008 by FMM 8th March 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Free Media Movement (FMM) expresses its concern that number of journalists have being taken in for questioning on 7th and 8th of ...

(Hong Kong, March 11, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission has written to the UN Rapporteur on Torture seeking his intervention regarding several Sri Lankan journalists after receiving reliable inf...

The decision by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League- N (PML-N) to restore all the deposed judges of the superior courts including the chief justice, Mr. Iftekhar M. Choud...

(New York, March 6, 2008) – The Sri Lankan government is responsible for widespread abductions and “disappearances” that are a national crisis, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released toda...

International Independent Group of Eminent Persons FOR RELEASE ON 06 MARCH 2008 Colombo, 05 March 2008 REF: IIGEP-PS-005-2008 Contact: IIGEP Public Information Office Colombo Hilton Residence, Suite 7...

According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan it is estimated that a woman is raped every two hours and a gang rape occurs every eight hours and about 1,000 women die annually in honor killings...

The announcement by the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) that they are quitting the Presidential Commission of Inquiry comes as no surprise at all. The surprise is as to why ...