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An article written by Kishali Pinto Jayawardene and published in The Sunday Times forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission Deaths of innocents in Sri Lanka have had a long and terrible history. No political party can wash its hands of this blood despite the hypocritical outrage often professed in public. Such fire breathing rhetoric […]

An article from Africa is a Country forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission by Jacqueline Moudeina Read this article in [ English ] [ Bahasa ( Indonesia)] [Nepali ( Nepal) ] [ Sinhala ( Sri Lanka) ] চলতি জুলাই মাসে আফ্রিকান ইউনিয়নের উদ্যোগে গঠিত বিশেষ ট্রাইব্যুনালে আমার দেশ চাদের স্বৈরশাসক সাবেক প্রেসিডেন্ট হিসেন হেব্রের […]

An article from Africa is a Country forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission by Jacqueline Moudeina Read this article in [ Bangla ( Bangladesh)]  [ Bahasa ( Indonesia)]  [Nepalis ( Nepal) ] [ Sinhala ( Sri Lanka) ] On July 20] former president Hissène Habré, who ruled my native Chad from June 7, 1982 to December 1, 1990, goes on trial in […]

An article from Africa is a Country forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission by Jacqueline Moudeina Read this article in [ English] [ Bangla ( Bangladesh)] [ Bahasa ( Indonesia)] [Sinhala ( Sri Lanka) ] सन् ७ सुन १९८२ देखि डिसेम्बर १९९० सम्म मेरो मूलभूमि चाडमा शासन गरेका चाडका पूर्व राष्ट्रपति हाइसेन ह्याबर जुलाइ […]

ජුලි 20 වන දිනදී දී අප‍්‍රිකානු සංගමය විසින් පිහිටුවනු ලැබූ විශේෂ විනිශ්චය සභාවක් ඉදිරියේ දී මා උපන් රට වන චැඩ් රාජ්‍යය 1982 ජූනි මස 7 වන දින සිට 1990 දෙසැම්බර් මස 01 දිනය දක්වා පාලනය කල හිටපු ජනාධිපති හිසේන් හබි‍්‍ර සෙනගාලයේ දී නඩු විභාගයකට මුහුණ දීමට නියමිතය. හබි‍්‍රගේ පාලනය මුළුමනින්ම භීෂණය පිරුණු පාලනයක් විය. ඔහු […]

by Govinda Sharma “Bandi” The Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly has finally submitted the draft constitution to the Constituent Assembly (CA). The four major political parties, who carried out the 16-point agreement, have also agreed to adopt a fast-track constitution-drafting process to promulgate the new constitution within a month or so. The fast-track process […]

An article from the Kathmandu Post, written by Dipendra Jha forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission by Dipendra Jha Torture has evolved into a chronic problem in Nepal, particularly after the end of the decade-long Maoist conflict. In October 2012, the Committee against Torture concluded that torture is systematically practiced in Nepal. Data by […]

An article from the Kathmandu Post forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission by Shradha Ghale Two months after the massive earthquake, the government has declared that the ‘relief phase’ is over and focus should now be on reconstruction. No one can deny the enormity of the task the government was faced with during this […]

An article from The Sunday Times, Colombo forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission by Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena As the year winds to its mid-term, the January 2015 consensus for a better Sri Lanka seems dangerously fragile. One can only wistfully enough, wish for a virtual miracle to rescue the country.  Battle lines are clearly drawn […]

An article from the Kathmandu Post, written by Ram Bhandari forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission by Ram Bhandari Four months after the formation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission for the Investigation of Enforced Disappearance, little progress has been made towards addressing conflict era violations. Now, amidst the ongoing […]

by Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena On the 9th of January 2015, the people of Sri Lanka astounded themselves and many others in the world. An authoritarian ruling family cabal which had ruthlessly stripped the country’s democratic institutions and systems of their basic integrity and legitimacy, subordinated the highest Court in the land and unforgivably repressed and alienated Sri […]

by Nasir Saeed Pakistani Christians are now regularly making nation and international headlines, not because they have achieved something, but because of their suffering for being Christians. Thus Pakistan is being maligned by the international community, which is de facto because of the government’s poor policies and obliviousness to Christians’ growing issues. They have been […]

An article from Daily Dawn forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission A. H.  Nayyar  The coercion worked. Fearing for her life, Dr Bernadette Dean, an eminent Pakistani educationist and one of the 12 members of the Government of Sindh’s advisory committee on school curricula reform, has fled the country. She is a victim of […]

An article from The Nation, written by Marvi Sirmed forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission Despite a loud voice from civil society, later from the judiciary, the Baloch issue is far from being untangled. Those who raised it have been risking their lives and have been labeled as traitors. Renowned journalist Hamid Mir had […]

by Kishali Pinto Jayawardene For those of us privileged, (if I may be forgiven the sarcasm), to witness the live Parliamentary telecast of Tuesday’s committee stage process on the 19th Amendment, the raucous scenes were beautifully illustrative of the mockery that passes for lawmaking in Sri Lanka today. Arrogance and ill intent combined For the […]

An article from the Friday Forum forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission The 1978 Constitution of our country has a passage in its Preamble which refers to the obligations of parliamentarians elected by the People. It says that “WE THE FREELY ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE OF SRI LANKA, in pursuance of the mandate, […]

An article from The Sunday Times written by Kishali Pinto Jayawardene forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission Constitution-making exercises in Sri Lanka are generally a coyly deceptive dance of appearing to give much but actually conceding very little. And for too long, we have suffered from a peculiar obsession with keeping rights away from […]

An article from the The Sunday Times, written by Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission by Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena Even close to one and a half decades later, it is heartening to see the virulent politicization of the Sri Lankan Supreme Court from the year 2000 amidst the bypassing of honourable judges of […]

An article from the Kathmandu Post, written by Kanak Mani Dixit forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission The Teaching Hospital at Maharajganj is presently dealing with two fasts-unto-death, one, which has already seen its tragic and terrifying finale and another that is ongoing. Nanda Prasad Adhikari died 187 days ago while on a second-time […]

March 24 marks the fifth annual International Day for the Right to Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims. The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed this day in 2010 to honor the memory of victims and recognize the work of countless human rights activists around the world who have devoted […]