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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning the plight of several thousand villagers suffering from hunger and malnutrition due to the severe drought tha...

Dear friends, We are reproducing the statement of an independent group who is calling for a discussion on “Saving Sri Lanka from the brink of disaster”. In the paper this group sets the pr...

By dismissing a case of police torture and degrading treatment on May 21, 2006, the Fourth Special Tribunal for Prevention of Women and Children Repression, under the Chief Metropolitan MagistrateR...

[RE: UP-101-2006: BANGLADESH: Judicial Probe Commission ignores specific complaint against the Mohammadpur police; UP-096-2006: BANGLADESH: Court orders supplementary investigation following disputed ...

In what amounts to a scandal concerning the manner in which President Mahinda Rajapaske has made appointments to the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, one of the nominees and well known human righ...

Dear friends, On 7 April 2006, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reported how Kithsiri Dharawardena was brutally assaulted by about 100 inmates and trainees of the police training college in Ke...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) expresses its concern of the failure of law enforcement officials to respond to complaints of domestic violence leading to wider measures of impu...

On May 18, 2006, with the adoption of the House of Representative’s Proclamation, the Nepalese people achieved an historic victory towards the establishment of a truly democratic state. Included...

Sri Lankan newspapers have reported the drafting of a new law severely curtailing civil liberties and media freedoms. Conscription is one of the provisions of the draft law. Other provisions are expec...

India, the self-styled world’s largest democracy, has secured its position in the newly constituted UN Human Rights Council following elections held on May 9th, 2006.  Although India’s in...

Background: Sri Lanka’s past history of insulating its public service from political interference has not been admirable.?Framers of both the First Republican Constitution, (The 1972 Constitutio...

adopted by the House of Representative on May 18, 2006. In respect of the sacrifices and participation made by the Nepalese people in the peaceful joint people’s movement, In due attention to th...

Under the Constitution of Sri Lanka, the executive president has not been given the power to select members of any of the commissions established or supervised by the 17th Amendment. The power of sele...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by reports from local sources alleging that members of the armed forces indiscriminately opened fire on a crowd of three tho...

[RE: UA-75-2005: SRI LANKA: A woman’s baby is stillborn due to police torture; UP-75-2005: SRI LANKA: Police torturers who caused a woman’s loss of her unborn child must be brought to justice] ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learnt that the principal of St Mary’s School, Hambanthota has manipulated his authority to arbitrarily suspend pupils from school. Five sch...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of an appalling case of police brutality and torture of a man whom they accused of having stolen goods. When the man repeated t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the Chhatak police in Sunamganj district neglected to act on a complaint of a man’s disappearance, which may have re...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault of a 14-year-old boy by a local businessman, who forced the boy to work for him on 29 April 2006, ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged repeated rape of a 12-year-old girl by a traffic police constable in Dhaka between 7 and 15 April ...