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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned about the circumstances of a group of people in Burma living with HIV/AIDS who were ordered to move to a government hospital ...

The Mothers and Daughters of Lanka, a well known human rights organisation joined with many others who are demanding the immediate release of Rizana Nafeek, a young Sri Lankan girl who has been held i...

It is a reality today that opinions, expressions, understandings and assessments of regimes, and of those who lead and shape them and their subsequent conduct that has affected and continues to influe...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that children of the Sahariya tribe in Madhya Pradesh are continuously dying of malnutrition. According to a fact-findin...

About 50,000 members of the fisher folk community in the Negombo lagoon area have been protesting against a move by the government to initiate a tourism project which will require the reclamation of p...

(Hong Kong, November 30, 2010)  Assassination of a torture victim and the death of criminal justice in Sri Lanka  On November 22, 2004 at 11:30 am, Gerald Perera, a torture victim who was to give ev...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from the Baloch Human Rights Council (UK) to the Rt Hon. David Cameron. Asian Human Rights Com...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following Appeal to the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for Human Rights by the NGO’s Collaborative Action to Put the Na...

(Hong Kong, November 26, 2010) Illegal Arrest, Detention and Torture at Beruwella Police Station We produce below the translation from the original Sinhala YouTube presentation of the testimony of Sam...

An Open Letter to Atty. Joseph Jev L. Palomar, Public Attorney II, Public Attorney’s Office (PAO), Kidapawan City District Office Atty. Joseph Jev L. Palomar Public Attorney II Public Attorney&#...

One of the first trips that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi made after her release this 13 November 2010 was to a privately-run hospice for persons living with HIV/AIDS in Rangoon, where she offered words of enc...

Around a dozen Christian youths were arrested and tortured and their houses searched by their Muslim neighbours in the presence of police officers to arrest a young Christian man, Zohaib alias Noami, ...

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

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following Joint Statement by Law Professors and Lawyers Urging for the Resignation of Hyun Byung Chul, Chief Commissioner of the National Human Rights Commi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances. Asian Human Rights Commiss...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the NGO’s Collaborative Action to Put the National Human Rights Commission of Korea in its Place (NHRCK Watch), South Korea. ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by the transfer of Ma Sandar, an ailing human rights defender convicted on fabricated charges, to another prison without the ...

Recent killings include that of a journalist and 24 others It has been reported during the recent weeks that in the province of Balochistan the mutilated bodies of 25 persons, who had earlier been abd...

It does not take much time for any rational person to agree that the families and the victims of the Maguindanao massacre must obtain justice. Anything less is unacceptable. The sheer evil that the pe...

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza Today, in recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, it is incumbent upon the international community and the government of Pakistan to...