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Presentation at the International Human Rights Colloquium at San Paulo organised by CONECTAS from 3rd to 8th November by: Basil Fernando Executive Director of the Asian Human Rights Commission This is...

We the undersigned wish to express our grave concern regarding the ongoing political and human rights crisis in Pakistan. As we meet in Sao Paolo, Brazil for the seventh International Colloquium on Hu...

Dear friends, Further to our previous appeals, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the freedom of the press has been denied through the two ordinances which the government ...

The International Bar Association (IBA) is calling upon its member bars and law societies across the globe to support . Since President Musharraf declared a state of emergency and suspended the Pakist...

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today condemned the suspension of the constitution in Pakistan, the summary dismissal of the Chief Justice and the arrest of leading lawyers, and expresse...

We reproduce below the third of a series of five cases researched on the basis of the information collected by the Asian Human Rights Commission in the past years reflecting the type of issues faced b...

An eight-member Supreme Court bench headed by Abdul Hameed Dogar on November 6 overruled a seven-judge decision that had struck down the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) which suspended the cons...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a casual labourer and his friend were brutally assaulted with a copper cable by the Dodangoda Police on 31 October ...

The South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) is shocked to hear of the sudden and irregular arrest of SAFMA founding Secretary General Imtiaz Alam in Lahore, Pakistan, yesterday (November 5th, 2007)...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that one farmer has died and two were seriously injured by a group on 1 October 2007 in Sei Tuan Village, Indonesia. How...

Since the government of General Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency, suspended the constitution and blacked out the media on November 3, it has launched a massive operation to detain virtua...

We reproduce below the second of a series of five cases researched on the basis of the information collected by the Asian Human Rights Commission in the past years reflecting the type of issues faced ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the illegal arrest and detention of a couple by the Kandana Police who humiliated and h...

Dear friends, In addition to what has been widely reported, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the plight of justices, lawyers and activists who had been unlaw...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the police arbitrarily confiscated all copies of a magazine without the court’s decision in Phnom Penh and th...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour  said today she is alarmed over the suspension of fundamental rights and  imposition of a state of emergency in Pakistan. Pakistan has...

The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and its sister organization the Asian Human Rights Commission welcome the proposed visit by the Special Rapporteur for Torture, Dr. Manfred Novak. It comes at a ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of continuing threats made on human rights activists and widows of activists who are helping victims. On November 2, activist O...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received reliable information regarding the extrajudicial killing of five youths at Thavasikkulam near Vavuniya town on 4 November 2007 in Sr...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a policeman arbitrarily shot and injured a man on 9 October 2007 in Kaliurang, Yogyakarta. The policeman did not id...