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THAILAND: Parliament must sit to end impasse

The siege of Bangkok’s airports that is into its sixth day is being accompanied by increasing lawlessness. On Saturday a convoy of armed occupiers attacked a police checkpoint, causing the offic...

PAKISTAN: Eight women and four children made hostage by police in order to secure the arrest of a dacoit

The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that police from four districts of Sindh province have taken in custody eight women along with their children on the suspicion that a young m...

BURMA: International Bar Association writes on case of two lawyers jailed for contempt 

U Aung Toe Chief Justice Office of the Supreme Court Office No. 24 Naypyitaw MYANMAR Tel: + 95 67 404 080/ 071/ 078/ 067 or + 95 1 372 145 Fax: + 95 67 404 059 26 November 2008 Dear Chief Justice We a...

SRI LANKA: Law, a threatened profession

The following resolution proposed by the president of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, Mr. W. Dayaratne, was unanimously adopted by the Bar Council at a meeting on November 22, 2008. WHEREAS, in the ...

PHILIPPINES: Lack of independence and political interference undermining prosecution system

The participants from throughout Asia gathered for the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of Law in Hong Kong from the 17-21 November 2008 studied the state of the prosecuti...

PAKISTAN: Address of the deposed Chief Justice of the Pakistan Supreme Court, Mr. Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, to the Harvard Law School 

By IFTIKHAR MUHAMMAD CHAUDHRY Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) http://www.JusticeForum.info Madam President, Distinguished ladies and gentlemen: Cambridge, MA, USA, 19 November 2008 (InformPress.com) &...

SRI LANKA: Police allegedly fabricate a case involving the assault on two men

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that police assaulted two men at the Kalubowila Junction on November 10. As a result of the assault, one man’s spinal v...

INDIA: Terrorist attacks in Mumbai is an act of cowardice

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) condemns the violent attacks unleashed in Mumbai by an underground armed group calling itself the Deccan Mujahudeen. As reports come in, an estimated 107 innoc...

SRI LANKA: The age of misrepresentation and the No Fact Zone

In the No Fact Zone of Sri Lanka flowers are blooming, the country is flowing with milk and honey and the old paradise still remains the old paradise. Internally displaced people are all smiling and e...

PAKISTAN: Address of the deposed Chief Justice of the Pakistan Supreme Court, Mr. Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, to the New York City Bar Association 

By IFTIKHAR MUHAMMAD CHAUDHRY Chief Justice of Pakistan http://www.JusticeForum.info New York, NY, USA, 17 November 2008 (InformPress.com) – It is a pleasure and an honour for me to be addressin...

SRI LANKA: Hundreds of thousands trapped in the Wanni need urgent shelters 

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Embargoed to 18.30 GMT 19 November 2008 The Sri Lankan government must immediately end its policy of blocking humanitarian aid needed to reach an estimated 300,000 ...

INDIA: Resolution of the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of Law on the systemic failure of the prosecution system in India

We assembled jurists, lawyers and legal academics from throughout Asia gathered in Hong Kong on 17-21 November 2008 for the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of Law express...

THAILAND: Court due to release important verdict on disappearance case

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the CrCF (Cross Cultural Foundation) that the Provincial Court in Yala is due to give its verdict on 27 November 2008 on t...

INDIA: Security agencies suspected in the murder of a young journalist in Manipur

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is informed by the Human Rights Alert (HRA) about the murder of a journalist in Manipur, India. It is reported that the scribe, Mr. Konsam Rish...

SRI LANKA: Human Rights Situation Deteriorating in the East 

(New York, November 24, 2008) – The Sri Lankan government should take immediate steps to address the deteriorating human rights situation in the country’s Eastern Province, where there has been...

PAKISTAN: “US Middle East Policy: Pathways to Renewal:” 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following speech by Mr. Aitzaz Ahsan. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A speech by Mr. Aitzaz Ahsan forwarded by the As...

SRI LANKA: Resolution of the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of Law on protection of witnesses, lawyers and journalists in Sri Lanka

We assembled jurists, lawyers and legal academics from throughout Asia gathered in Hong Kong on 17-21 November 2008 for the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of Law note wi...

PAKISTAN: Resolution of the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of Law in support of the lawyers’ movement in Pakistan

FOR PUBLICATION  AHRC-ART-036-2008  November 24, 2008 A Resolution by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Resolution of the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of L...

PAKISTAN: Resolution of the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of Law in support of the lawyers’ movement in Pakistan

FOR PUBLICATION  AHRC-ART-036-2008  November 24, 2008 A Resolution by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Resolution of the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of L...

BURMA: Resolution of the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of Law on the case of Supreme Court advocates U Aung Thein and U Khin Maung Shein

We assembled jurists, lawyers and legal academics from throughout Asia gathered in Hong Kong on 17-21 November 2008 for the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of Law, are al...