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SOUTH KOREA: AHRC’s Interview on independence of National Human Rights Commission of Korea

(Hong Kong, August 13, 2009) We wish to inform you about an interview, in its entirety, with ‘sisaIN’, a weekly magazine in Korea, concerning the independence of the National . The intervi...

PAKISTAN: A human rights activist faces terrorism charges for publicising the murder of Christians, while the mullahs who encouraged the violence remain free

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an activist working for the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and the Labour Party of Pakistan, has been...

PAKISTAN: Serious concerns over mass graves, extrajudicial killings, IDPs’ plight in Swat; HRCP 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Human R...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part 5 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

INDIA: 35 Dalit families face a social boycott while the destruction of their burial ground goes unpunished

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that all the lowest caste (Dalit) families in a Bhavnagar District village are living under boycott conditions, which deny them emp...

UPDATE (Cambodia): Dey Kraham community in Phnom Penh fears imminent forcible eviction

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has previously reported that over several years violence, blockades and lawsuits have been used in successive attempts to evict hundreds of famil...

PAKISTAN: Another Ahmedi is shot dead by three assailants in front of his wife 

Another member of the Ahmediyya community, Rana Ata-ul Karim (36) was killed on 6 August 2009 in Multan, Pakistan. He was murdered simply for being an Ahmedi, a minority sect of Islam. Mr Karim, a wel...

PAKISTAN: Government should take concrete action to amend or abolish the blasphemy laws within a year 

As Pakistan marks Minorities Day, Amnesty International calls on the government to take meaningful action to protect religious minorities which have increasingly been the target of religiously-motivat...

PAKISTAN: Journalists physically attacked outside high court hearing in Lahore 

Reporters Without Borders condemns the use of physical violence by lawyers against journalists that took place outside a on 6 August in which lawyers were being tried for an earlier case of violence a...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part Four

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

SRI LANKA: Amnesty calls for detention camps to be unlocked 

Posted: 10 August 2009 Equivalent of Bournemouth’s population live, eat and sleep in area size of Wembley Stadium Amnesty International today called for the immediate release of 285,000 innocent...

BANGLADESH: Bangladesh should investigate in depth the Chittagong Hill Tracts problem to ensure a realistic, rights-based solution 

On 29 July, 2009 the Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR) announced in a media release that the Government of Bangladesh had decided to withdraw 35 temporary camps, three infantry battalions and a br...

CAMBODIA: Another case of a court being used to silence human rights defenders 

Recently, a Rattanakiri provincial court judge, Thor Saran, made a recommendation to a human rights NGO, ADHOC, to remove its prominent human rights defender named Pen Bonnar from the province where h...

SRI LANKA: Sri Lankan government bars media from covering elections in North 

Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka out rightly condemn the Sri Lankan government’s decision not to allow independent media representatives to cover the first local elections in two main northern ...

SOUTH KOREA: The 13th Tji-Hak-soon Justice & Peace Award 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open invitation from the Tji Hak-soon Justice & Peace Foundation, requesting for nominating candidates...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part Three 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Sri Lanka Guardian, a news portal in Sri Lanka. The article is part three of a series of articles from the column, Freedom of Thoug...

INDIA: Dalits face a social boycott for asserting their right to vote; most are forced to leave home

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that 125 Dalit families have been forced to leave their village after they voted in the lower house parliament election. Earlier in t...

THAILAND: Protect Pol (Abdulla) and every child born on Thai soil from illegal immigrant parents who had been permitted to temporarily reside on special basis 

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the open letter from the Human Rights for Development Foundation (HRDF) had coordinated with Bangkok Clinic for Rights a...

CAMBODIA: Law on the statute of judges, not their retirement, is the right end from which to tackle judicial reform 

Last June the Cambodian government ignored the jurisdiction of the nomination and discipline of judges and prosecutors of the Supreme Council of the Magistracy (SCM) when it bypassed this SCM and got ...

SRI LANKA: Two men are shot, illegally detained and charged with a fabricated offence by Urubokka police

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the botched arrest and shooting of two men by Urubokka police officers, who then fabricated their charges. T...