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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that an army general allegedly illegally grabbed land belonging to an ethnic minority community in Rattanakiri province, Cambodia sin...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the family of a man who was taken to serve as a porter for the Burma army was paid less than six US dollars as compensatio...

Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans frontières Press release 29 January 2008 SRI LANKA IRRESPONSIBLE COMMENTS AND ACTION BY MINISTERS ENDANGER JOURNALISTS Reporters Without Borders appealed toda...

(Hong Kong, January 30, 2008) Hundreds of people from around the world are signing a petition demanding that the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) be kept independent. “Many peop...

The reports coming out of Pakistan state that a group of 100 ex-military personnel including former generals, admirals, air marshals and other retired officers are calling for the resignation of Presi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that ten activists were charged with trespassing and coercion in relation to peaceful protest that was held on 12 Decemb...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information about the case of a child soldier in Burma who has been kept in jail since he was 15. The boy was allegedly ill...

ALERT – SRI LANKA 28 January 2008 High government official advocates censorship, SOURCE: Free Media Movement (FMM), Colombo **For further information on the Mervyn Silva incident, see IFEX alert...

January 27, 2008 I, myself, Ms Angkhana Neelapaijit, am writing on behalf of the Working Group on Justice for Peace (WGJP – Thailand), and as a recipient of the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights. I...

(Hong Kong, January 29, 2008) A Sri Lankan police witness who went back on previous evidence given in court concerning the killing of a torture victim in Colombo was on Friday himself put in custody. ...

Soeharto breathed his last in the quiet confines of Pertamina Hospital in South Jakarta in stark contrast to the hundreds of thousands that were compelled to breathe their last in agony in prisons, ca...

In March 2006, the legal counsel for two of the five prisoners known as the Abadilla Fivesubmitted a complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Committee under the Optional Protocol of the Internat...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Meetchi Makkal Iyakkam and the People’s Watch, two human rights organisations based in Tamil Nadu, India ...

Joint Statement Today the ravages of the ethnic conflict are taking centre stage in the country, and the absence of good governance in general is marked. In this context, the agreement among the three...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, issued the following statement today: Geneva, 24 January 2008– In this celebratory year of the 60th anniversary of the Unive...

A panel of five Supreme Court judges made the unanimous verdict of Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto being guilty of premeditated murder of the prominent human rights defender Munir Thalib and was sentenc...

President Musharraf, while talking to a gathering of 800 Pakistanis in London, has asked the overseas Pakistanis to “put one, two or three punches” to Pakistani journalists who are destroy...

For many years land grabbing has claimed many victims among the poor and the weak in Cambodian society.  Land grabbers, mostly the rich and powerful, have scarcely resorted to the due process of law....

On February 4, Sri Lanka will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its independence from the British colonial empire. There is hardly any mood to celebrate in the country, however. Beset by enormous econ...

When a farmer was found dead four days after he was allegedly abducted and disappeared on January 16, the police within a short period concluded their investigation effectively exonerating policemen f...