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As the second session of the UN Human Rights Council moves into its final phase, we the undersigned civil society organizations and individuals dedicated to principles of human rights, peace and dem...
The Asian Human Rights Commission is concerned about the negative response of the Sri Lankan government to international requests for the establishment of an independent international human rights mon...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-231-2006 October 4, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Only the practice of telling the truth can bring back respect for Sri Lanka’s inte...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, our partner organization in West Bengal, that the management of a private jute mill in West Bengal is allege...
Civil society organizations in Sri Lanka made a great advance during the last week when they were able to identify a group of persons who are allegedly involved in the abductions in Colombo. On the ...
[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Indian autho...
[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Pakistan aut...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal arrest and brutal torture of Mr. P. Gnanasiri and the vicious assault of members of his family, by...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of 16-year-old schoolboy Marage Sameera Sampath Kumara, by three of his teachers, including...
(The state’s failure to implement the views and recommendations of the Human Rights Committee on individual complaints, and the failure to implement the Human Rights Committee’s and the CA...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding a 14-year-old girl Munira who was very nearly raped by the police officers of the Senhati camp in Khul...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) calls for your urgent intervention into the alleged torture of a 25 year-old man named Lalith Rajapakse from Kirigallewa by the Medawachchiya pol...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of the severe torture of Mr. Illukumbura Mudiyanselage Mudiyanse, a 49-year-old trader, by the Thalathuoya police on 9 June ...
It was reported in the Sri Lankan press (Daily Mirror September 27, 2006 – Sri Lanka signs convention on transnational crime and child abuse) that Sri Lanka has recently ratified the Transnation...
NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Pakistan auth...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding yet another enforced disappearance from Sri Lanka in which a white coloured van without a number plate is invo...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the fresh spate of attacks on Dalit temple worshippers and Dalit representative organizations by religious fun...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a human rights organisation in West Bengal regarding the tragic deaths of eight indigenous tribespeople due to prol...
We refer to the recent Supreme Court (please see below for reference) and our subsequent statements on this matter. As there has been considerable interest in this case and also some confusion we are ...
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