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A few years ago, some senior United Nations staff in Cambodia met with a government minister to discuss the state of the country’s courts. They expressed concern about their lack of independence...
The Indonesia Supreme Court quashed a judgment by the Court of Appeal which affirmed the 14 year jail sentence pronounced by the Central Jakarta District Court last December against Pollycarpus Budiha...
[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Philippine au...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by a killing of a prominent human rights defender Bishop Alberto Ramento of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI), or Phil...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-236-2006 October 5, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BANGLADESH: What is really needed to maintain law & order The Daily Janakantha newspaper on Oct...
The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to bring to the notice of the international donors that no progress of any sort can be made in any area of life in Cambodia until the country’s governmen...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding yet another case of an alleged illegal forced eviction in Cambodia, in which another tycoon senator is involve...
THAILAND: Military rule; martial law; threats to human rights defenders; restrictions on freedom of assembly & expression ——————————R...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Kerala state, India that a person died from custodial torture since he refused to pay bribes to the police officers...
As the second session of the UN Human Rights Council moves into its final phase, we the undersigned civil society organizations and individuals dedicated to principles of human rights, peace and dem...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement to the Human Rights Council prepared by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for ...
A prominent critic of the wave of extrajudicial killings that have swept the Philippines under the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has himself become a victim of these killings. Bi...
The Asian Human Rights Commission is concerned about the negative response of the Sri Lankan government to international requests for the establishment of an independent international human rights mon...
When General Sonthi Boonyaratglin led the armed forces of Thailand to overthrow the caretaker government of Pol. Lt. Col. Thaksin Shinawatra on September 19, the military indicated that it would withd...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-231-2006 October 4, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Only the practice of telling the truth can bring back respect for Sri Lanka’s inte...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, our partner organization in West Bengal, that the management of a private jute mill in West Bengal is allege...
Civil society organizations in Sri Lanka made a great advance during the last week when they were able to identify a group of persons who are allegedly involved in the abductions in Colombo. On the ...
[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Indian autho...
[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Pakistan aut...
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