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On September 2, the Asian Legal Resource Centre released a statement calling urgent attention of the UN Human Rights Council to the threat of indiscriminate revenge killings in Balochistan made by Pak...
Sunday, September 6, 2009 By Basil Fernando (September 06, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The responsibility of supervising a police station and ensuring orderly behavior of officers and discipline is t...
A recent incident in Balochistan has put a temporary halt to the year-long targeted killings of non-ethnic Baloch teachers in the province. It has also clearly exposed the hand of state agencies in th...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2009 AHRC-OLT-022-2009 An Open Letter to the UN Special Rapporteurs on Freedom of Expression and Independence of Judges and Lawyers by the Asian Human Rights Commiss...
Unlike many other countries, Cambodia is bound to international human rights obligations, including one towards its citizens who wish to participate in the promotion of human rights. Thus, under the P...
On September 7, 2004 human rights defender, reformer and leading civil society activist Munir Said Thalib was killed for his critical views of the government and military in Indonesia. One of Munir...
By Basil Fernando (September 03, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Several events have had a shocking effect on democratically-minded people in Sri Lanka this week. J.S. Tissainayagam, a well-known journal...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the bodies of two teenage Tamil girls were recently found in a Colombo canal. Police promptly filed the case as one of suicide...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a senior anchorperson at Dunya TV News is being pressured to keep silent about being sexually harassed by the companys manag...
(Hong Kong, September 4, 2009) The Asian Human Rights Commission has reliably learnt that the alleged extract of the Udalagama Commission of Inquiry Report published in the Lakbima newspaper and subse...
Dear friends, Though the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to note the start of a long-awaited investigation into the illegal arrest and torture of a rickshaw puller and a day-labourer a...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that police from Slawi station in Central Java tortured a man to death shortly after his arrest and torture by Tegal station police...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has obtained detailed information about the case of a monk in Burma who is being tried without evidence for insulting religion. The monk, U Sanda...
The recent case against Aung San Suu Kyi by the Burmese junta is internationally well known. The case and the verdict were condemned all over the world as one more demonstration of a completely fake t...
Extra-judicial killings are on the rise; Supreme Court should ensure human rights and a fair trial of the accused in BDR mutiny case; Concern over the deaths of children after consuming adulterated me...
A letter came from the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC) postmarked Delhi 14 July 2009 was received by the AHRC. It concerned two complaints regarding children who died of malnutrition ...
Mr. Rasool Bux Mengal, joint secretary of Baloch Nationalist Movement (BNM), was abducted on August 23, 2009 by plain-clothed men on a double cabin and had since been missing. On August 31, Mr. Mengal...
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the shameful 20-year jail sentence which a Colombo high court passed today on journalist J.S. Tissainayagam on charges of supporting terrorism and inciting...
The Asian Human Rights Commission is saddened, disappointed and shocked but not surprised at the judgment of the High Court of Colombo in sentencing J.S. Tisssainayagam to 20 years of rigorous impriso...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Working Group on Justice for Peace (WGJP) for the International Day on Enforced Disappearances. They urge Thai government comprehen...
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