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The Asian Human Rights Commission expresses its shock at the most . On March 22, 2010 a mob which arrived on a bus attacked the Sirasa TV building with stones. The crowd came well prepared for this at...

Mr. Anoop Mishra, Madhya Pradesh state Minister of Public Health and Family Welfare said in the state legislative assembly on 8 March that 30,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition eve...

The Center for Trade Union and Human Rights finds the recent report of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) to the Philippines issued on February ...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from a group of UN human rights experts. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from a group ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a criminal investigator restrained and struck a fisheries union leader while he was detained at Negombo Police Station. Though...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning the illegal arrest and alleged murder of another person by state police. It is widely suspected that his ki...

BANGLADESH RATIFICATION OF THE ROME STATUTE IS BEFITTING TRIBUTE TO VICTIMS OF 1971 BANGLADESH MUST DEPOSIT INSTRUMENT OF RATIFICATION BEFORE 1 APRIL, 2010 Odhikar congratulates the government for Rat...

Dr. Manmohan Singh Prime Minister Government of India Your Excellency, We, the members of the Right to Food Campaign are writing to you to express our deep distress at the proposed draft bill of the N...

A battalion of the Pakistan Army has grabbed the land of old villages of the coastal area of Karachi, the capital of Sindh province. The fisher folk have been forced out of their ancestor villages and...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Tala police in Satkhira district illegally arrested a man named Mr. Md. Sohrab Hossain on 7 January 2010 and to...

[RE: AHRC-HAC-005-2010: INDIA: A corrupt supervisor misappropriated the wages of 16 illiterate workers depriving them of their food security] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wis...

Pakistan claims to provide a universal right to vote to all its citizens, which proves to be contradictory to the facts. Indeed, the members of the Ahmadi community have been denied this fundamental r...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that four men who allegedly assisted in the rape of a young Hindu girl have been granted pre-arrest bail by a session court. Rape i...

The Asian Legal Resource Centre wishes to inform you about the side event of the 13th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on The Global Phenomenon of Enforced Disappearances and t...

The banning of books by the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and the withdrawal of movies by the Film Censorship Board (LSF) in the name of public order and state unity are unacceptable, as they ...

Mr. Debiprasad Jena, Supervisor of the Soil Conservation Department (Machhkund) allegedly misappropriated INR 49,490 (USD 1000) from 16 workers under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NR...

(Hong Kong, March 15, 2010) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and the Human Rights Alert (HRA) organised a protest rally today in Hong Kong calling upon the Government of India to initiate step...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a partner organization, The Advocacy Forum, (AF) that two civilians, Dal Bahadur and his son Bikram Gyanmi Magar, h...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you that three of the four policemen who arbitrarily arrested and tortured a man on December 2009 (AHRC-UAC-178-2009) have been ...

Jakarta/Brussels, 11 March 2010: A substantive dialogue between the Indonesian government and Papuan leaders could help stem political radicalisation in the country’s easternmost province. Indonesia:...