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(Hong Kong, September 20, 2007) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Thursday urged the Buddhist community worldwide to join with monks in Burma and boycott anybody from or associated with its ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the policemen involved in attacking peaceful demonstration of public school teachers in Taft Avenue, Manila on 5 Octobe...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of yet another case regarding the brutal torture of a man and the subsequent filing of false charges by the police. The vict...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you regarding the failure by police in West Pasaman Resort Police to carry out an investigation into the death of a two-year-old...

One of the greatest legacies that Gautama Buddha left to the ascetics who followed his path was the requirement that they obtain their food and other needs in the form of alms from the people. The giv...

On 27 September 2006, eight days after the coup that has dragged Thailand back to the dark days of military intervention into all areas of political and social life, the country’s ambassador to ...

PUBLIC STATEMENT – THE IIGEP REITERATES CONCERNS OVER THE WORK OF THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY On 18 September 2007, the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (the IIGEP)’ submitted i...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that the whereabouts of a labour leader, Jaime Rosios (a.k.a. Jimmy), remains unknown following his abduction and su...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged fabrication of charges on a woman by the police reacting to her attempt to seek justice. She was p...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you of the continuing occurrence of extrajudicial killings and disappearance in the northern part of Sri Lanka. In Augus...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform you that a court in Thailand has dismissed an appeal against 20 persons who were arrested for demonstrating against a pipeli...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of a man in custody of the Kotwali Police 2 July 2007. He allegedly died in the hospital after four ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the continuing failure by the authorities to take adequate action against the policemen involved in torturing a school te...

(Hong Kong, September 16, 2007) Twenty one participants from nine Asian countries will meet in Hong Kong from 17th to 21st September to discuss the problems of delays in adjudication and the implicati...

ASIA: UN Human Rights Council statement in response to the Mr President, Madam High Commissioner, As Human Rights Defenders from Asia, we welcome the commitment and initiatives of you and your office ...

Ten persons were killed by an angry mob on September 13, 2007 in Bihar state of India. A few days before, another person suspected for theft, was attacked by a mob in Bihar. In this incident, a police...

Mr. Mian Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister of Pakistan, was abducted on September 10, 2007 from Islamabad airport and put on a PIA flight bound for Saudi Arabia. He has since been kept incommunica...

We would like to bring to the notice of the Council the trend of attacks on religious leaders and places of worship in Sri Lanka, due to their involvement in protecting and assisting victims of ongoin...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a boy was brutally beaten by his principal and hospitalised on 3 August 2007. No action has been taken by the polic...

On 31 August 2007 the Court of Appeal in Thailand upheld the decision of a lower court that a group of persons had in 2002 been exercising their legal rights under the abrogated 1997 Constitution when...