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(We refer to our earlier statement on this dispute which may be found at http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2007statements/1136/. We are in receipt of a reply (by email) from a subsidiary ...

[HU-002-2007: INDIA: District administration responds to Hunger Alerts in Uttar Pradesh; RE: HA-006-2007: INDIA: Five-year-old Musahar boy may die from starvation in Raitara of Pindra village in Varan...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned about the mass dismissal of over 900 irregular workers by a company in order to avoid giving them permanent contracts as req...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal physical assault of a boy by his principal on 7 June 2007. The boy was hospitalised for six days fo...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organisation based in West Bengal, India regarding the case of Ms. Ruksana Sardar and h...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute regarding the arbitrary arrest and detention of a man who has been detained in Ceng...

(We reproduce below the decision of the Sri Lanka Medical Council (as received) regarding a complaint made against a Judicial Medical Officer for his failure to carry out a proper medical examination ...

(Hong Kong, August 6, 2007) Twelve community radio and people’s media groups in Thailand have rejected the military-backed draft constitution as undemocratic and have called for it to be rejecte...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner, the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) and Savitri Bai Phule Women Forum...

A female passenger in a public bus was found bleeding from her thighs and the fellow passengers took her to hospital. At the hospital, the doctors who examined the lady found that she was wearing a ch...

[RE: HA-006-2007: INDIA: Five-year-old Musahar boy may die from starvation in Raitara of Pindra village in Varanasi in the coming days; HA-007-2007: INDIA: Five-year-old Dalit girl facing imminent dea...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding repression against the representative of the workers and several human rights defenders by a company. The AHRC...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received a report from Odhikar, a human rights organization in Bangladesh, regarding the alleged extrajudicial killing of a carpenter by army...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you in response to a press release issued by the Public Relations Department of Thailand dated 23 July 2007 in which it is stated that during a c...

(Hong Kong, August 2, 2007) The Asian Human Rights Commission on Thursday submitted a letter of complaint with the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) concerning the arrest and imprisonmen...

Dear friends, Further to our most recent update on Burma from last week, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that another human rights defender in Burma has been sentenced t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you of yet another death of a man, Thadallage Chamil Weerasena (29), in custody of the Ratgama police following his arre...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the abduction of two men by two unidentified persons on 27 July 2007. Police subsequently arrested and torture...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation based in West Bengal, India that one of MASUM’s staff has been charge shee...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of the torture and death of a man in custody in southern Thailand. The AHRC calls for a thorough police investigation an...