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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-113-2009 May 20, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: IDPs are citizens and censorship of their conditions must stop In a BBC Sinhala Service...
The Phnom Penh Post, a local English-language newspaper, has recently published the letter from a human rights advocate commenting on the legal action that Mu Sochua, a female Member of Parliament (MP...
Exactly what made both movements represented by these two leaders (The JVP and the LTTE) abandon the struggle for democracy and rule of law altogether and resort to violence reflects on the limitation...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Amnesty International. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Amnesty International...
(Hong Kong, 20 May, 2009) The Asian Human Rights Commission has broadcast an interview with Ms. Mandira Sharma, prominent human rights lawyer and director of Nepalese NGO, Advocacy Forum. In the inter...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that six members of a family, including three women and one young girl, were arrested on the instructions of a member of the ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-111-2009 May 19, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Wijeweera and Prabakaran – rebels within a dysfunctional democracy          Â...
Internally displaced persons are human beings and citizens. They are in a displaced situation not of their own choice but due the fact the government has failed to provide them the protection to enabl...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-110-2009 May 18, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Government must now end the operation of anti-terrorism laws The Sri Lankan government ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-109-2009 May 16, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Police meddle in Babli’s murder by producing her ‘third’ husband In th...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that two peasants have been arrested under fabricated charges the day before their long awaited court case against a local criminal...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEÂ AHRC-STM-107-2009 May 14, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: The banality of evil and the Security Council intervention This week’s criticis...
The kinds of punishments that are meted out in Sri Lanka today are not based on the making of distinctions between guilt and innocence. Within any system of criminal justice making distinctions on gui...
The Arab Program for Human Rights Activists is following up with deep concern the developments of the deteriorated conditions of human rights activists and civil society in Syria, where the security a...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that two men were detained for four days by the police without charge or legal record, and beaten severely each day to elicit bribe...
The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that a girl was murdered on the . The police from four different districts were allegedly involved in the abduction and subsequent killing of...
We reproduce below the United Nations Security Council resolution of Sri Lanka on 13thMay 2009 which was published by the Department of Public Information – News and Media Division – New York The fo...
Dear Friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Human Rights Watch. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Human Rights Watch forwa...
(New York) – The Sri Lankan armed forces have repeatedly struck hospitals in the northern Vanni region in indiscriminate artillery and aerial attacks, Human Rights Watch said today. Commander...
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