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FIAN demands profound changes to address the dramatic increase of hunger Rome/Heidelberg (22.June.2009) – FIAN, the international Human Rights organization for the Right to Food, calls for profo...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the provincial court in Songkhla, Southern Thailand is set to hear the case against a group of policemen on 24 June 2009...

The Indian state of West Bengal is once again in the news for condemnable reasons. In a short span, the conflict in Lalgarh of West Midnapore district has increased in intensity, costing life and prop...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Human Rights Initiative (HRI), a human rights organisation based in Imphal, Manipur state, concerning the murde...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has previously reported on the case of two human rights lawyers who were sentenced to four months’ imprisonment each for contempt of court,...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Navsarjan, a human rights organisation based in Gujarat, that an entire Dalit community is being punished for the...

Amarakoon Dissanayake Sarath Kumara went to the Supreme Court to complain that he was assaulted by several police officers, and was also abused by them. He was then forcibly taken to a police station ...

[RE: AHRC-HAG-003-2009: PHILIPPINES: Soldiers burn houses, blocks food supply for over 34,000 displaced families in Maguindanao] Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform...

We are greatly concerned at the conditions of 15 complaining palm oil over seas Philippine workers (OFWs) in Sabah province who were prevented by their employer on June 17 from getting any food suppli...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Advocacy Forum, Nepal. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ———...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been closely following the case against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and three other persons since their arrest in May 2009, which is a clear produ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the allegedly unlawful arrest of a man from his workplace in Dehiwela by police in 2008. Hours after making a po...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-137-2009 June 17, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SOUTH KOREA: Prosecutor deprives defendants of opportunity to fair trial It is well known that th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you that the three human rights lawyers, whose names were included in the list of targets in a leaked document reportedly cr...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that officers who shot two men dead in custody have yet to be investigated or charged, and that the murder of a labour leader has n...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-135-2009 June 16, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Registers on entry and leaving of internally displaced persons needs to be created urg...

Prime Minister Hun Sen is utilising much of the country’s electronic media to assert his leadership of the country and send out messages to his people through his public speeches at different functio...

Dear Friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) Sri Lanka. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- ...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE June, 11 2009 The Sri Lankan government’s failure to deliver justice for serious human rights violations over the past twenty years has trapped the country in...

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