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The resolution is a fundamentally partial and politicised response to a human rights and humanitarian crisis», said Souhayr Belhassen, President of FIDH. The text was drafted by the government of Sri...

Basil Fernando Sri Lanka’s justice system, legal profession and media are all under peril says a report published this week by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute(I...

Basil Fernando 80 persons have died of dengue fever recently. Over 5,000 people are infected and there are fears that of further spread of the virus. The president has asked the authorities to pay mor...

Since the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) first reported on the torture of Mr. Fazal Abbas and his family by police earlier this month, details of escalating brutality have continued to become pu...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-123-2009 May 29, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: Hard-won ration cards for bereaved parents: a sign of change or pure political posturing? O...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received additional information concerning the case of Ms. Hasina Kharbhih, a human rights defender working against human trafficking in In...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that twelve men were illegally arrested and tortured while in detention at the Kotowali police station in Jessore district. Two of th...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-121-2009 May 27, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: A few tests to measure the love for the country Mahinda Rajapakse, the president of Sri...

at the Human Rights Council Special Session on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Message to HR Council by High Commissioner 26 May 2009 ...

Dear friends,  On 8 September 2008, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reported on the case of Roy Varghese, a schizophrenic detainee held at Central Jail, Jaipur, Rajasthan, in urgent need of ...

A member of parliament and representative of the opposition, Dayasiri Jayasekara, was assaulted by a group of supporters of the ruling party when he attempted to erect a facilitation board for the pre...

In the case of the love marriage of Ms. Kulsoom and Mr. Fazal Abbas the chief justice of Lahore high court has taken Sou Moto action and ordered the arrests of the police officers involved in the tort...

(New York, May 26, 2009) – The Pakistani authorities should immediately lift a 24-hour curfew in place since May 18 in the Swat valley and adjoining areas of the Malakand Division of Pakistan’s...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Thai Netizen Network (TNN) under Computer-related Crime Act of B.E.2550. For furthe...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-117-2009 May 25, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Elation over victories and the appalling conditions of displaced Tamil persons UN Secre...

Expressing concern about the decrease in the number of civil disputes filed in the courts in the country, the Chief Justice of India, Justice K. G. Balakrishnan, on Saturday said that the people prefe...

Following the killings of the entire LTTE leadership there is a strongly expressed feeling among Sri Lankans, within the country or outside, that their deaths particularly that of the leader, Prabakar...

In the case of the love marriage of Miss Kulsoom where seven women and girls of a family were arrested and tortured, one girl, Shazia, (16), remains missing after her abduction, allegedly by a member ...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Union of Peoples’ Lawyers in Mindanao (UPLM). Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement fr...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following public statement from the Working Group on Justice for Peace (WGJP). Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Ko...