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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) regarding serious threats to a trade union leader by the military in O...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is shocked to learn that a labour leader who survived an earlier attempt on his life in April 2006 was shot dead this morning, March 10. Gerardo ...

The decision by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League- N (PML-N) to restore all the deposed judges of the superior courts including the chief justice, Mr. Iftekhar M. Choud...

On 22 February 2008 the deputy prosecutor attached to Phnom Penh Court named Hing Bunchea led a police force to execute the Supreme Court’s order to evict 23 families in Banla Saet village, Khmu...

(New York, March 6, 2008) – The Sri Lankan government is responsible for widespread abductions and “disappearances” that are a national crisis, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released toda...

International Independent Group of Eminent Persons FOR RELEASE ON 06 MARCH 2008 Colombo, 05 March 2008 REF: IIGEP-PS-005-2008 Contact: IIGEP Public Information Office Colombo Hilton Residence, Suite 7...

According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan it is estimated that a woman is raped every two hours and a gang rape occurs every eight hours and about 1,000 women die annually in honor killings...

The announcement by the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) that they are quitting the Presidential Commission of Inquiry comes as no surprise at all. The surprise is as to why ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to congratulate you on your appointment as the Minister of Justice of South Korea last Friday, 29 February 2008. The AHRC welcomes your inauguration rem...

The present military backed caretaker government of Bangladesh has banned all political activities since the state of emergency was proclaimed on 11 January 2007, which supplemented the Emergency Powe...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death sentence of a man from minority community, who is due to be executed on 12 March 2008. He was charge...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that three senior police officers, who are responsible for the brutal assault of a policeman, were simply transferred to...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), a local human rights organisation working in Uttar ...

(Hong Kong, March 4, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission on Tuesday launched a blog campaign to raise debate on the appointment of new members to Thailand’s national human rights body. The H...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) congratulates the Corruption Eradication Commission of Indonesia (KPK) for their success in the struggle against corruption in the Indonesian prosecution syste...

Basharat Mughal, the president of a group of minority Muslims — the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Halqa Manzoor Colony – in Karachi, was murdered on the 24 February 2008. The forty five year old ...

Most of the national daily newspapers of Bangladesh, including the Daily Star and the Prothom Alo, published reports on 28 February 2008 stating that three personnel of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-053-2008 March 3, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Lawyer’s movement is the ‘vanguard of democracy’ The lawyer’s move...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Centre for Social Development (CSD), a human rights organisation based in Manipur, India regarding the murder o...

(Hong Kong, February 28, 2008) The Asian Legal Resource Centre has recently submitted six separate country reports for consideration by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Re...