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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the QIC-AC Uttar Pradesh, a human rights association based in Uttar Pradesh state, India that police refused to reg...

Dear Friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you that the three human rights defenders who are leading a campaign against the operation of a nuclear power plant in the...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the case of a missing student Joyashan Yogendran has still not been taken up by Batticaloa police. It is alleged ...

The violent attacks on the Christian community are continuing while the government claims that it is providing equal rights to religious minorities, including Christians. These attacks are being condu...

Subject: [SL HR Advocacy] Sri Lanka: Politicised Courts, Compromised Rights – New Report from the International Crisis Group To: slhr advocacy slhradvocacy@googlegroups.com * INTERNATIONAL CRIS...

World Socialist Web Site By Sampath Perera – 1 July 2009 The Sri Lankan government has revived legislation that vests the Sri Lanka Press Council, a statutory body, with broad powers to restrict...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that as people around the world gathered to observe the UN day in support of torture victims, Inter-Service Intelligen...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed about the worsening health of some human rights defenders currently detained in prisons in Burma on whose cases we have earlier...

About a hundred criminals have been shot dead either in gun battles with the police or in mysterious circumstances like trying to attack police officers, even when handcuffed. This was revealed in an ...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Madadgaar Helpline, Karachi – PAKISTAN. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from United Nations. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A...

A BRIEF REPORT Human Rights Alert (HRA) and the Department of Clinical Psychology and the Psychiatry, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) observed the UN International Day in on 26 June 2009...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern regarding the safety of three Human Rights Defenders, who are grassroots labour leaders that advocate protection of labo...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-149-2009 June 26, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Authorities complicit in widespread torture The International Day in Support of Victim...

FOR PUBLICATION AHRC-ART-032-2009 June 26, 2009 An Article on the menace of torture in Pakistan by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: The real need to make torture a heinous crime under Pakis...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-150-2009 June 26, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: Media’s ignorance is suicidal The world today observes the International Day in Su...

Torture is mother of all human rights violations. Torture gave birth to various human rights violations from extra-judicial killing to denial of the right to fair trial. International human rights law...

(Hong Kong, June 26, 2009) To mark the United Nation’s Day in Support of Victims of Torture today, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) launched its latest publication in Manila entitled: “Abadi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man who was shot dead by police while in custody was not trying to escape at the time, as the police have suggest...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you that a man falsely accused by police of being a drug dealer, was arrested and detained twice to force him to confess. Th...