http://www.humanrights.asia http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.humanrights.asia/++resource++ahrc.theme.images/AHRCLogo.jpg http://www.humanrights.asia http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/images Wed, 26 May 2010 08:15:00 +0100 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/images http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-001-2007 24th January 2007Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) notes with dismay the media reports suggesting a move by the government to abolish the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and Public Accounts Committee (PAC). The gravity of this unwise move must be understood in the back drop of the recent revealing reporting by the COPE on scandals in major public institutions. This can ... Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-001-2007 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-002-2007 Jakarta, 12 February 2007The victims and family of the victims of human rights gross violation s cases and KontraS, IKOHI, Demos and Imparsial urge the Third Commission of Parliament to take urgent measure on Attorney General denial to proceed the gross human rights violation. Conclusion taken on meeting between Third Commission with Attorney General that Parliament should send recommendation to ... Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-002-2007 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-004-2007 "  Representatives of the four religions and civil society groups spoke of the need for a political solution rather than a military solution.  In addition, Ambassadors from Norway, the United States and Japan, and High Commissioners of Canada and Australia took part in the event and demonstrated international solidarity with the call of civil society for negotiations, peace and political ... Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-004-2007 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-005-2007 (New York, April 12, 2007) – The Sri Lankan government is abusing antiterrorism legislation to clamp down on journalists who expose human rights abuses, official corruption, or otherwise question the government’s handling of the civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Human Rights Watch said today.Standard Newspapers Ltd., which publishes a leading Sinhalese-language weekly ... Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-005-2007 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-006-2007 The following press release was issued by the Free Media Movement of Sri Lanka on April 17, 2007 - http://www.freemediasrilanka.org/index.php?action=con_news_full&id=523&section=news(We also reproduce the relevant article in the Daily Mirror referred to in this release).The FMM is outraged to receive news that the brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksha and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya ... Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-006-2007 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-007-2007 The Kathmandu PostChronicling the truthhttp://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?nid=106686By MANJUSHREE THAPA The essay form--now fancifully called literary nonfiction or creative nonfiction—has had a very distinguished history in Nepali literature. Within the genre, jail journals have come to occupy an esteemed niche. Whether it is BP Koirala writing from incarceration in Sundarijal or RK ... Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-007-2007 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-008-2007 Press release, 06/14/2007 by AI(Geneva) President Mahinda Rajapakse, as Head of State, must take personal initiative to end the human rights crisis in Sri Lanka, said Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan, after a meeting with President Rajapakse today.Ms Khan urged President Rajapakse to use his executive power to invite the United Nations to set up a strong human rights field ... Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-008-2007 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-009-2007 For immediate release 15 June 2007Meeting with the President of Sri Lanka yesterday, the Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) expressed serious concern about the grave human rights situation in Sri Lanka, including, renewed patterns of enforced disappearances and targeted killings of civilians, as well as shrinking space for civil society.“I urged the President ... Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-009-2007 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-010-2007 (We refer to earlier communications regarding the Sri Lankan’s Chief Justice’s proposed visit to Hong Kong to attend a meeting at the City University. Kindly see SRI LANKA: The Sunday Times publishes a false story about the CJ attending a meeting in Hong Kong - http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2006statements/1090/, HONG KONG: Chief Justice Sarath Silva will not participate at the ... Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-010-2007 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-011-2007 on June 26, 2007, and focuses on the ongoing problem of torture in Nepal. It is based on the daily monitoring of 35 police detention centres in Nepal, during which Advocacy Forum has alone documented 1,313 new cases of torture since the popular uprisings in April 2006.Link to the report: http://nepal.ahrchk.net/pdf/AHRC-FP-011-2007-Nepal.pdf Asian Human Rights Commission Hong ... Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-011-2007 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-012-2007 Today, 17 July 2007, international communities who always strive for justice and fight against impunity celebrate the World Day for International Justice. The communities that consist of victims, human rights defenders and countries that care about this commemorate the adoption of the Rome Statute – ICC which symbolizes the establishment of an independent legal institution legitimized to preside ... Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:00:00 +0800 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-012-2007 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-013-2007 On the occasion of International Day of Disappeared, Advocacy Forum (AF), a national human rights NGO, stands with the families of disappeared persons and demands that the whereabouts of those who have disappeared in Nepal are made public and those who have committed these crimes be brought to justice.  Enforced disappearance is not only a crime but it is also a grave human rights violation. This ... Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-013-2007 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-015-2007 Dear friends in the solidarity movement,Today, about 200,000 people rallied the streets in Burma (in Rangoon and different cities). The Buddhist monks are leading the pro-democracy rallies, defying military junta's order for them to stay away from the street rallies or face legal action by the Ministry of Religious Affairs.With the escalation of protest rallies comes the heightened calls for the ... Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-015-2007 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-016-2007 The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today condemned the suspension of the constitution in Pakistan, the summary dismissal of the Chief Justice and the arrest of leading lawyers, and expressed grave concern at this dismantling of the rule of law. “President Musharraf has dealt a grave blow to the rule of law and stability in Pakistan”, said Nicholas Howen, Secretary-General of the ... Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.humanrights.asia/news/forwarded-news/AHRC-FP-016-2007