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PHILIPPINES: Infant dies of severe malnutrition and a hunger related disease in General Santos City, Mindanao

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that an 11-month-old baby, John Paul Mahinay, died of severe malnutrition and a hunger related disease in General Santos Cit...

PHILIPPINES: Unfairly sacked farm labourers in Mindanao forced to eat poisonous frogs and corncobs due to abject poverty and lack of food

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information that at least seven out of 16 families of farmers who were unfairly dismissed from work at a banana plantatio...

PHILIPPINES: Illegal arrest and torture of four farmers in Columbio, Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the four farmers illegally arrested in Columbio, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao on 2 September 2005 by combined elem...

PHILIPPINES: Possible negligence by a local court delays the arraignment of five persons 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the possible negligence by a local court in General Santos City, Mindanao, Philippines,...

UPDATE (Philippines): Three children die at evacuation centre due to hunger; adequate food urgently needed for starving evacuees

[HA-19-2005: Starvation and hunger threaten hundreds of displaced villagers following intense fighting in Maguindanao, Mindanao] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concer...

INDIA: Human rights defender physically assaulted, threatened and detained by government officials 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information through its local partner MASUM in West Bengal that Mr. Gopen Sharma, a human rights activist was illegally detained, th...

PHILIPPINES: Displaced families starving due to abject poverty in General Santos City, Mindanao

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the starvation and hunger three displaced families are experiencing in Barangay Bawing, General Santos City, M...

UPDATE (Philippines): Court commences trial of three men due to pressure following frequent postponement 

[Re: UA-74-2005: Trial of three men yet to begin after three years; UP-78-2005: Delay in trial due to possible neglect by the court and prosecutor] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHR...

UPDATE (Philippines): Another human rights lawyer killed; wounded priest died while being treated at a hospital 

[RE: UA-34-2005: Killing of a labor rights activist for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in Tarlac City; UA-30-2005: Attempt on the life of human rights advocate and his wife in Abuyog, Leyte, Philip...

UPDATE (Philippines): A 13-year-old daughter of a disappeared man in Davao City suffers trauma 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the present condition of the family of Datu Abdullah Sabdura Salah whose  forcibly disappearance was ...

PHILIPPINES: Starvation and hunger threaten hundreds of displaced villagers following intense fighting in Maguindanao, Mindanao

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Mindanao People’s Caucus (MPC), a coalition of human rights groups in Mindanao, regarding the threat of s...

PHILIPPINES: A man convicted and sentenced to death is now facing imminent execution 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) in Luzon that a person who was illegally arrested, detained and ...

UPDATE (Philippines): Another priest wounded in latest attacks on human rights activist in Visayas 

[RE: UA-34-2005: Killing of a labor rights activist for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in Tarlac City; UA-30-2005: Attempt on the life of human rights advocate and his wife in Abuyog, Leyte, Philip...

UPDATE (Philippines): Survivors of Sulu massacre have yet to receive assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development 

[UA-48-2005: Massacre of a civilian family by military caused intense fighting and massive displacement in Maimbong, Sulu; UP-52-2005: Social Welfare and Development Department provides protection to ...

UPDATE (Philippines): Prosecutor’s failure to ensure appearance of its complainants and witnesses postpones trial of five men 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from a reliable source that the hearing of five men in Davao City on July 25 was once again postponed. This is y...

UPDATE (India): No compensation to family of adivasi, murdered by forest official, despite a four year wait 

[Re: UA- 50 -2005: INDIA: Three and a half year wait for justice for the brutal murder of an Adivasi (tribal person) by a forest official in Gujarat] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (A...

PHILIPPINES: Starvation in all parts of Philippines requires immediate government action

Farmers in parts of Mindanao, southern Philippines, have for the last three years suffered terrible crop losses due to drought and rats. Deep poverty, severe hunger and starvation have followed. Altho...

PHILIPPINES: Government inaction in spite of starvation due to severe drought in Mindanao

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that three families are suffering starvation and are in desperate hunger in the municipalities of Sultan Kudarat province, Mind...

SAUDI ARABIA/PHILIPPINES: Assault of four protesters at the Philippines Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding to you information from the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) in Hong Kong regarding the alleged assault of four Filipino wo...

UPDATE (Philippines): Delay in trial due to possible neglect by the court and prosecutor 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the further postponement in the trial of Jejhon Macalinsal, Aron Salah and Abubakar Amilhasan due to a...