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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault and mishandling of a case filed by a couple with the Panadura police in Sri Lanka on 16 September ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of yet another killing of an activist subsequent to receiving continuing threats on his life in 17 January 2008 in Tagbilaran C...

Today, January 23, 2008, the Board of Directors of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to announce that it has decided to grant its 3rd jointly to Muneer Malik, former President of the...

Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and the Dutch Lawyers for Lawyers Foundation (L4L) call for: The immediate unconditional release of all jurists arrested und...

(Hong Kong, January 22, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) today is calling upon the justice of an appellate court reviewing the sentences of five prisoners to make his decision before he ...

A Joint Statement by the Human Rights Watch, the Amnesty International, the Asian Human Rights Commission, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, the Observatory for the Protection of Human...

As the independence of the judiciary in Pakistan is being treated by the military as a threat to national security 55 judges remain un-constitutionally retired out of which 13 are from the Supreme Cou...

January 21, 2008 I am writing this as a recipient of the Gwangju Human Rights Award to discharge an obligation I owe as a recipient of this award. One of the reasons for granting this award has been t...

(A list of the groups appears at the end of this statement) Joint Statement Abrogation of Ceasefire Agreement Will Escalate Spiral of Violence The government’s decision to abrogate the Norwegian-faci...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the National Human Rights Commission of Korea. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement fr...

Forwarded herewith is a letter written by Louise Arbour the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to Mrs. Lee Kyung-sook, the Chairperson of the Transition Committee of the President of th...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) invites applications from qualified Indian doctors for full-time field work in a project to help the identification and treatment of tuberculosis patients in a...

In August 1999, five men, known as the “Abadilla Five”, received the death sentence by a Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Quezon City, Manila for the murder of an influential police colonel, ...

As there is some discussion at the moment on the mandate of Louis Arbour as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, we are reproducing below her mandate according to the resolution of t...

A recommendation made by the Chairperson of the Presidential Transition Team to bring the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) under the immediate control of the President threatens the i...

The killing of a Catholic priest, Jesus Reynaldo Roda of Tawi Tawi and a judge, Roberto Navidad of Calbayog City illustrates how miserable the lives of citizens have become in a cruel environment on t...

The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to inform you that there are several new web resources on the rule of law, democracy and human rights in Sri Lanka which provide information and documents valu...

On 13 January 2008 at around 11:30 pm a lawmaker named Chin Kim Sreng, 70, from the ruling party, was brutally beaten on the head in front of his house in Boeung Kang Kang commune, Chamcar Mon distric...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans frontières Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statem...

On January 9, the Court of Appeals (CA) reportedly heard the petition for writ of amparo filed by Cleofas Sanchez, mother of disappeared victim Nicolas, who, together with his cousin, Heherson Medina,...