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In its drive to develop and beautify Phnom Penh, the Cambodian government and city municipality have made land concessions to private developers and have used excessive force to evict inhabitants. Evi...

Maina Sunawar was 15 years old when members of the Nepalese armed forces arbitrarily arrested her. Since this date – February 17, 2004 – she has disappeared. All the evidence indicates tha...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the murder of yet another person from Manipur by the armed forces stationed in that state. Mr. Longjam Surjit,...

[RE: UA-275-2006: PHILIPPINES: Eight members of a human rights fact-finding team detained, others harassed; UP-169-2006: PHILIPPINES: Alleged assault and attempt at framing false charges against 8 mem...

[RE: UA-258-2006: PAKISTAN: Attempted rape of a girl by the Karachi university staff and continuous impunity of the perpetrators due to protection of Pakistan Rangers; UP-159-2006: PAKISTAN: Denial of...

Dear friends, The Asian Legal Resource Centre has together with the Working Group on Justice for Peace (Thailand) have submitted details to the United Nations of five more persons who have disappeared...

[RE: UA-22-2004: NEPAL: Three young persons shot dead by security personnel and a girl among the victims was gang-raped before being killed in Pokahari Chauri-4, Kavre District and UP-136-2005: NEPAL:...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal regarding two cases which depicts how the local police fails to p...

Mr. Secretary-General, The human rights community of Nepal would like to draw your urgent attention concerning the lack of credible action being taken by the authorities in Nepal to address the cultur...

The home minister of Kerala recently admitted that the justice system in the southern Indian state is failing. His reason for this assertion was the low conviction rate, which he attributed to lazy an...

According to reports from the Sri Lankan press: Twenty four policemen including 4 Sergeants attached to Kollupitiya police station were interdicted with effect from yesterday after an inquiry conducte...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of yet another alleged forced disappearance of a 17 year-old boy named Thivarthan Murukesu Jebichandran by Sri Lanka’s military on 9...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that three more activists have been killed in separate incidents in the Philippines on August 20, 22 and 24. Accordi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information about the case of a young man in Burma who has been jailed without evidence or fair trial, allegedly for sellin...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), through its sister organisation, has submitted details to the United Nations of 12 persons who have allegedly been abducted by the security forc...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-203-2006 August 31, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission NEPAL: Prosecute acting Army Chief and remove the Army Act’s machinery of impunity The Asian ...

In mid-August Heng Pov, a former Phnom Penh police commissioner and advisor to Prime Minister Hun Sen who is now hiding in a foreign country, issued a public statement and gave an interview to L’...

[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 auth...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the alleged brutal torture of a 50 year-old farmer by allegedly intoxicated Kekirawa police officers on 24 August 2006...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal that a person was illegally taken into custody from his ...