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Jakarta, 12 February 2007 The victims and family of the victims of human rights gross violation s cases and KontraS, IKOHI, Demos and Imparsial urge the Third Commission of Parliament to take urgent m...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the statement issued by Migrant CARE on the “19 Indonesian Migrant Workers facing death penalty abroad”. Asian H...

Why reluctance on the part of Indonesia to address the past human rights abuses? The Commission for Disappeared and Victims of Violence (Kontras) and the Indonesian Association of Families of the Disa...

The Ad-Hoc Human Rights Court (tribunal) for the Tanjung Priok case has been concluded. All suspects have been released. However, the Indonesian government has ignored the suffering of the families of...

Indonesia signed the International Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment on the 23 October 1985 and ratified it on the 28 October I 998 by the Law N...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged brutal murder of a 14 year-old boy by nine officers of the Muncipal Administrative Police Unit (SA...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged police assault of a 57-year-old woman in East Denpasar, Indonesia after she was arrested on 3 January ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the recent developments in the investigation and prosecutory trial of the murder of the late human rig...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from local human rights organization KONTRAS regarding two separate cases of violence and intimidation against human rig...

The following was initially delivered as a talk given by Mr. John J. Clancey, Chairperson of the Asian Human Rights Commission to the priests of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong on January 4, 2007 Wh...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Cambodian aut...

STATEMENT- ABOLISHMENT OF TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION BILL On the 7th December 2006, the Supreme Court in Jakarta abolished the highly controversial Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) B...

(Hong Kong, December 21, 2006) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) announces the release of its Human Rights Report for 2006 (345 pages), entitled “The State of Human .” The report i...

[RE: UA-164-2004: INDONESIA: The family receives death threats for demanding an impartial inquiry into the death of Munir; UP-30-2005: INDONESIA: Unveiling of suspect in Munir’s death may end fu...

In addition to the general statement issued by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) for International Human Rights Day on December 10, we are also making the brief comments below on the human righ...

Discontent over malfunctioning democracies and legal systems and the consequent setbacks these shortcomings cause for human rights and the rule of law, as well as aggressively expressed aspirations to...

Since 2003, the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas Ham) has been consistently appealing the Attorney General to present the investigative findings of an independent investigation conducted by Ko...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (Kontras) regarding the recent developments in the yet u...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the prolonged detention of two farmers in Davao Oriental province, the Philippines. Both of them have been detained fo...

A statement issued on the occasion of the International Symposium on the Structures and Funcations of NHRIs: a search for best practices to be held in Seoul, South Korea on December 4, 2006 The goals ...