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PAKISTAN: Flood-stricken children’s vulnerability increases because of politics and negligence of authorities 

Darja Merkina   The current floods are having a detrimental effect on children’s health due to the potential outbreak of endemic waterborne diseases. The UN Office for the Co-Ordination of Huma...

INDONESIA: Key perpetrator of student crackdown and riots in 1997/98 promoted to vice minister of defense 

A Joint Statement by the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) and the Asian Human Rights Commission The Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) and...

PAKISTAN: Flood Disaster-Rupees 249 billion losses to agriculture sector 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Mr. Shoaib Habib Memon. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from Mr. Shoaib Habib Memon ...

SRI LANKA: An appeal made to all members of parliament of Sri Lanka by a group of Sri Lankan citizens to vote against the 18th Amendment to the Constitution 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from a group of Sri Lankan citizens. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from a group of S...

SRI LANKA: Pussellawa Police illegally arrested, detained, tortured, and filed fabricated charges against an estate labourer

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an estate labourer was illegally arrested by police officers attached to the Pussellawa Police Station and arbitrar...

INDIA: Campaign urges Supreme Court to expand the public food distribution system 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Steering group of the Right to Food Campaign. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement...

PAKISTAN: Frontier Crimes Regulation — Infringing Human and Child Rights 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Mr. Abdullah Khoso. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from abdulhumanrights.blogspot.c...

PAKISTAN: Balochis are treated as aliens in their own homeland 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Khalid Hayat Jamaldin Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from Khalid Hayat Jamaldin for...

PAKISTAN: Flood-hit women take up the challenge to reconstruct their devastated dwellings

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Women Workers Help Line. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Women Workers Help ...

PHILIPPINES: Suspicious death of a man last seen in NBI custody

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a man, who was last seen alive in custody of a unit of investigators, had been found dead. When his decomposing body ...

SRI LANKA: The 18th Amendment destroying democracy by manipulation of the democratic process itself 

A simple way of understanding the 18th Amendment is to compare it to the situation in the United States of America. The president of the United States is elected for a term of four years and is entitl...

SRI LANKA: Media organizations oppose 18th Amendment to the Constitution as an Emergency Bill 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from The Free Media Movement of Sri Lanka. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong —&#...

PAKISTAN: Murder attempt on journalist over TV report of lynching 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Reporters Without Borders. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Reporters Without...

SRI LANKA: Panwila Police illegally arrested, detained and tortured an innocent civilian

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police officers attached to the Panwila Police Station have illegally arrested, detained and tortured an innocent c...

SRI LANKA: Anamaduwa Police illegally arrested, detained and tortured a school-boy and filed fabricated criminal charges

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 17 year old school going child was illegally arrested by the police officers attached to the Anamaduwa Police Sta...

SRI LANKA: Dengue’s human cost–what is the state’s responsibility 

The comparison between Hong Kong and Sri Lanka Rasika Sanjeewa Weerawickrama LLB (SL), LLM (HK) It was reported that around 192 people have died from dengue fever in the first seven and a half months ...

SRI LANKA: Words are inadequate to describe the evil implications of the proposed 18th Amendment to the constitution 

The Asian Human Rights Commission states that words are inadequate to express the magnitude of the folly contained in the suggested amendments to the Constitution of Sri Lanka by the Sri Lankan govern...

UN: Statement by United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ——&...

SRI LANKA: Special Task Force illegally arrest, detain and file fabricated charges against a German philanthropist staying in Sri Lanka

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a German philanthropist staying in Sri Lanka has been illegally arrested and detained by the officers attached to t...

NEPAL: Police negligence in a case of rape and beating of a 16-year-old girl

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding rape and abuse of a 16 year-old domestic worker in Kathmandu on 18 July 2010 by her employers. Instead of resc...