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An announcement by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo that she is appointing a high level Commission of Inquiry to probe into the extrajudicial killings was exposed as a hoax within just a few days of ...

I write on behalf of Families of the Disappeared. I have seen in the Daily Mirror, Justice Page on August 19, 2006, a letter written by you to the editors of that paper inquiring from them about a pho...

[RE: UA-141-2004: SRI LANKA: A man arbitrarily assaulted by the SI of the Horana Police Station without any reason and UP-051-2006: SRI LANKA: Justice continues to evade victim one and a half years af...

The statement: Government and Tamil Tigers Must Respect International Humanitarian Law (Colombo, August 21, 2006) – The Sri Lankan government and the armed opposition Liberation Tigers of Tamil ...

The statement: INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS 17 August 2006 Sri : ICJ calls on Government and LTTE to publicly state commitment to international humanitarian law The International Commission of ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you today to call for greater UN intervention to address the atrocious situation of human rights and concomitant corruption, failed governance an...

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has announced the proposal for the appointment of a high level commission to investigate allegations of extrajudicial killings, as well as to supervise the actual inv...

[RE: UA-247-2006: SRI LANKA: Man brutally tortured by the Wanduramba Police Station requires months of hospitalisation and UP-146-2006: SRI LANKA: Update on torture victim Mr. Premalal] ——...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by its partner in Nepal, Advocacy Forum, about further developments to the case of 33-year old Mr. Teksu Rai, a permanent resid...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, regarding yet another incident of brutality and torture committed by ...

Dear friends,   The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you regarding the use of excessive force by policemen and security guards in dispersing 21 union members of a protest at ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern to inform you that the family of a religious worker, Pastor Isaias Sta. Rosa, who was killed on August 3, 2006, is prese...

While the call for a peaceful resolution of the Sri Lankan conflict has arisen from high level sources such as the Secretary General of the United Nations and even the Pope, these make hardly any diff...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to draw your attention to the fact that personnel from Bangladesh being deployed for United Nations peacekeeping missions abroad may be responsible for ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a member of a fishermen’s group was killed while two other activists are facing serious threats. Orlando Rivera (...

The Amnesty International report on the political killings, human rights violations and peace process in the Philippines published in August 2006 points to the need for the political will to investiga...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you to draw your attention to the need for a more concerted effort on the part of UN experts to deal with the appalling human rights situation in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in India, MASUM concerning the death of a young woman, who died a few hours after giving birth du...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR) appreciate the concern of the Uttar Pradesh State Human Rights Commission about the hunger deaths, a...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 15, 2006 AHRC-OL-047-2006 An Open Letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions by the Asian Human Rights Commission Philip Alston Special Rapporteur on ...