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When he was made National Police Commissioner some six months ago, Nath Savoeun, set out to welcome criticism from the public of his police force whose image had been badly tarnished by his predecesso...

On 25 August, 2009 the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh issued a landmark ruling on extra-judicial penalties in the name of arbitration. The Court ordered the government, law-enf...

“To make a real difference, some serious changes have to be made, both in the area of the constitution and on ways to correct the police as an institution. So long as the executive presidency in...

INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION the global voice of the legal profession [For immediate release: Thursday, 27 August 2009] TheInternational Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) condemns th...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a Phteah Rong Commune police officer rejected the complaint of a young rape victim without investigating it, and humiliated th...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information about a case of extreme violence, corruption and impunity involving members of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of an ongoing case in Burma in which four men are being tried for having stickers of Aung San Suu Kyi. The men were arrested wi...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was taken to court by the police and remanded for 18 days on tenuous grounds, with limited and fabricated e...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Krueng Raya police arrested a man without a warrant and tortured him in custody. He died in hospital on the day o...

On 12 August, seven-year-old Juni Kumari was found missing from her home in the village of Ghagni in the state of Bihar, India. On 15 August, her body was found abandoned in a sugarcane field near her...

The Asian Human Rights Commission has compiled and published in sequence, the recent exchanges of views regarding the column on ‘the appalling silence of the good among us’ in the Sunday Times ̵...

Reporters Without Borders is shocked and saddened to learn that Janullah Hashimzada, an Afghan journalist based in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, was killed today in an armed attack on the minibus in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Navsarjan, a human rights organisation based in Gujarat that the only Valmiki (lowest Dalit sub-caste) family livin...

I am writing this on behalf of the Asian Human Rights Commission on a matter that is, I am sure that of great importance and urgency to all the members of parliament, whatever political party they mig...

On 13 August, 2009 the Chief Officer of Women and Child Development Department in Khandwa district, Madhya Pradesh visited Spandan, a human rights group working on right to food. Since the children di...

“Has protection of the minorities improved? What about those detained because they are suspected of having had links to the LTTE, without any evidence to that effect? What about the human rights...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from QIC-AC Uttar Pradesh (QIC-AC UP), a human rights association that in Bahraich district a 14-year-old girl was sexua...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-175-2009 August 21, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PHILIPPINES: Exposing witnesses to risk is systemically entrenched, not a mere ‘lack of f...

Journalists of the military-torn province of Balochistan are facing direct threats from law enforcement agencies, particularly from the Frontier Constabulary (FC), a paramilitary force operating again...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern regarding the continued detention of 19 workers who are facing fabricated charges for holding a strike two years ago. Th...