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Related Materials: Sri Lanka: End Illegal Detention of Displaced Population Keeping several hundred thousand civilians who had been caught in the middle of a war penned in these camps is outrageous. H...

Five suspects in police custody are known to have died in police custody in different locations in Cambodia over the first five months of this year. There have been allegations that they suffered tort...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a young man is facing fabricated charges in Kandy Magistrate’s Court. The cases against him are patently fl...

Ssang Yong Motor Company fired around three thousands workers. The labour union tried to negotiate this matter with the company, but both parties failed to agree. Subsequently, the workers and the lab...

Four pairs of eyes belonging to four siblings, the eldest of whom was fifteen, were fixed upon a scene happening on the morning of the 22nd of July at Beligahahandiya in Galle. What they saw in that m...

After Pakistan’s accusation of Indian involvement in subversive activities with the nationalist movement in Balochistan province, the law enforcement agencies reacted heavily against the students of ...

Mr. Muhammad Srour and Mr.Jonathan Pollack, an Israeli solidarity activist, testified to the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict in Geneva on 6 July 2009 about the murder of 2 you...

With reference to above, we would like to draw your attention on the incident of malnutrition death of two years child Prem in Madhya Pradesh state capital, Bhopal. The first hand analysis of the caus...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a Dalit community has been living under a complete economic and social boycott levied against them by their villa...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that a child died of malnutrition associated with fever, diarrhoea and breathing difficulty on June 17, 2009. The human rig...

The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to inform you about the release of the first issue of Caveat, a monthly human rights analysis published by the Community Legal Aid Institut (LBH Masyarakat) in...

This article by Kishali Pinto Jayawardene appeared in the Sunday Times on July 19, 2009 ¡V Editor). The recommendation of the 2006 Commission to Investigate Serious Human Rights Violations (the Udala...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that no investigation is being done into the rape and murder of a woman last year by a group of men, which included tw...

The International Press , which is comprised of representatives from the world¡¦s media community, including Reporters Without Borders, is extremely concerned over the ongoing spate of violent attac...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) would like to report that a police inspector being tried for the assassination of Gerald Perera is still working for the state as an officer. T...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a local feudal leader and his family, the Khans, who control affairs in Ingoli village, Gujarat, are behind the s...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a human rights group based in Madhya Pradesh Spandan, Samaj Seva Samiti (Spandan) regarding three children who died...

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2009 By Basil Fernando (July 16, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) “Lasantha from the Leader paper went overboard. I took care of him. Poddala agitated and his leg was broken. Now a fe...

The International Bar Association Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) is alarmed by the recent publication of the article ‘Traitors in black coats flocked together?’ on the website of the Sri ...

In the follow up to the love marriage of Miss Firdous Shaheen with Mr. Zamir Lone, the administration of Pakistani Kashmir recovered Mrs Rshida and Rubina, Zamir’s mother and sister on July 12, after...