Forwarded Statement

A Statement from The Express Tribune forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission The Express Tribune, February 5th, 2015. ISLAMABAD: Law experts and human rights activists from South Asian countries have called upon governments in the region, to ratify the United Nations convention on enforced disappearances. Enforced disappearance is an international crime. In spite of that several […]

A Statement from Cambodian Civil Society Organisations forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission We, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) underwriting this statement, condemn the repeated and ongoing violation of communities’ rights in Botumsakor and Kirisakor District, Koh Kong Province, by the Union Development Group. In 2014-2015, Civil Society documented a series of evictions conducted by […]

A Statement from Lawyers for Democracy, Sri Lanka. forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission “Lawyers for Democracy” views with deep concern the death of Marimuttu Manoj, a youth from Talawakelle, while under the custody of the Talawakelle Police as a suspect. It is reported by police that the suspect, while being transferred in a […]

A Statement from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission Lahore, February 04, 2015: The international conference on disappearances in Asia, held in Islamabad on Feb 2-3, 2015, has called upon all Asian states to take effective measures to eliminate the practice of enforced and involuntary disappearances. These states […]

An interview published in the UCA News, Thailand forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission Prominent Sri Lankan rights lawyer Basil Fernando was effectively forced from his homeland amid mounting death threats. Now, 13 years after he left, Fernando has returned to Sri Lanka following last month’s surprise ouster of strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was […]

A Statement from the Burmese Students in Hong Kong forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission We, the Burmese students in Hong Kong, stand by our fellow students in Myanmar(Burma), who are now courageously fighting against the newly enacted National Education Law, which has been designed to perpetuate the military-dictatorship-era education system. Although we are […]

For more information or inquiries, please contact Ms. Eun-ji KANG by email (khis21[at]hanmail.net) from Korean House for International Solidarity. – Chairperson Hyun Byung-cheol should reflect on himself whether he is qualified as the head of a NHRI of A status In the Plenary Committee meeting on 12 January 2015, Hyun Byung-cheol, chairperson of the National […]

Today – the Day of the Endangered Lawyer 2015 – the Signatory organizations call on the Aquino government to investigate and prevent the killings and harassment of lawyers in the Philippines. Number of killings and harassment At least 39 lawyers have been killed in the Philippines since 2004 for reasons apparently related to their profession. […]

A Statement from the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission During the latter half of January 2015, there are five cases handled by the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) to go on trial including; PDRC demonstration site bombing in Trat province (Black Case no. O1213/2557, Trat Provincial Court) […]

An Interview with Basil Fernando on the election in Sri Lanka by Qantara.de forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission Maithripala Sirisena was the surprise winner of last week’s presidential election in Sri Lanka. He was swept to power on a platform of political reform and an end to corruption. Sirisena has promised to transfer […]

A Statement from the Bar Association Of Sri Lanka forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission At an Emergency Meeting of the Executive Committee of the BASL, which was attended by close to 90% of its members, it was unanimously decided to issue a Statement calling for the resignation of Hon. Mohan Peiris, PC, in […]

A Statement from the Australia West Papua Association (Sydney) forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission This report details incidents of human rights abuses and events that occurred in West Papua during 2014. It is by no means exhaustive. In the report AWPA uses the name “West Papua” to refer to the whole of the […]

A Statement from the Executive Director of the LP3BH forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission   In the middle of the 1930s, a group of experts, Dr Jean Jaques Dozy, Dr A.H. Colijn and Ir F. Wissel who were employees of the Dutch company called NNGPM, went on an expedition to climb  the Cartensz […]

I and Prasanga Fernando an activist of “Street Protest”  were alarmed to find  two freshly severed heads of dogs in front of our homes on the night of 4th December 2015. I was out with my family and returned home at around 10.30 p.m. in the evening. When we arrived home I found a bag hanging […]

A Statement from the Friday Forum  forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) Sri Lanka’s foreign policy has recently been the target of much criticism and one can cite a litany of scandals and questionable departures from professionalism and our traditional Non-aligned stance. These are now overshadowed by the glaring lack of principle and consistency recently seen in the First […]

A Statement from the UN Human Rights Committee forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) 1.         The Committee considered the fifth periodic report submitted by Sri Lanka (CCPR/C/LKA5/) at its 3098th and 3099th meetings (CCPR/C/SR3098 and CCPR/C/SR3099), held on 7 and 8 October 2014. At its 3126th meeting (CCPR/C/SR3126), held on 27 October 2014, […]

A public petition for signatures for the constitutional reforms, by Ravaya forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission The Alliance of the Opposition should ensure the general public that the Common Candidate it fields for the Presidential Election will carry out the reforms under mentioned within the first three months of his victory. 1. Right for Information The ‘Information […]

A Public Petition from the Citizens and Civil Society forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission 30th October 2014 An Open Letter Urging the President and the Leaders of Political Parties to Enact a “Recovery of Proceeds of Crime Act” Dear Mr. President and Leaders of Political Parties, The citizens and civil society are most grateful to Reverend Athureliye […]

A protest march, organized by the Inter University Students’ Federation, was held yesterday. The students demonstrated to demand the government to: 1)      Increase Mahapola & Bursary payment to Rs. 5,000 2)      Increase Funds for Education 3)      Increase Workers’ Wages 4)      Abolish the Fraud Private Medical College in Malambe 5)      End Privatization 6)      End Tuition fees […]

แถลงการณ์ ขอ ให้ยุติการกระทำที่ละเมิดสิทธิของครอบครัวผู้ เสียหายและผู้ต้องหา กรณี การปฏิบัติหน้าที่ของเจ้าหน้าที่และสื่อมวลชนใน คดีเกาะเต่า จาก กรณีเมื่อวันที่ 15 กันยายน 2557 เกิด เหตุสองนักท่องเที่ยวชาวอังกฤษถูกทำร้ายและเสีย ชีวิตอยู่ริมชายหาดเกาะเต่า จังหวัดสุราษฎร์ธานี ต่อมาในวันที่ 2 ตุลาคม 2557 เจ้า หน้าที่ตำรวจได้ควบคุมตัวผู้ต้องสงสัยเป็นแรงงาน ชาวพม่าจำนวน 3 ราย โดยจากการสอบสวนเพิ่มเติมของพนักงานสอบสวนทำผู้ ต้องหาให้การรับสารภาพว่ากระทำความผิดตามข้อกล่าว หา และในวันที่ 3 ตุลาคม 2557 เจ้า พนักงานสอบสวนได้นำตัวผู้ต้องหา 2 รายไปแถลงข่าวและทำแผนประกอบคำรับสารภาพในที่เกิดเหตุ ปรากฏตามรายงานข่าวของสื่อมวลชนไปแล้วนั้น เนื่องจากคดีดังกล่าวอยู่ระหว่างชั้นสอบสวน ผู้ต้องหาต้องได้รับการสันนิษฐานไว้ก่อนว่าเป็นผู้ บริสุทธิ์จนกว่าจะมีคำพิพากษาถึงที่สุด ดังนั้นการปฏิบัติต่อผู้ต้องหาจะกระทำเหมือนผู้ กระทำความผิดแล้วไม่ได้ สมาคมนักกฎหมายสิทธิมนุษยชนและองค์กรข้างท้ายมีความห่วงใยว่าการปฏิบัติ หน้าที่ของเจ้าหน้าที่รัฐที่เกี่ยวข้องและ สื่อมวลชนอาจเป็นการละเมิดสิทธิในความเป็นส่วนตัว ของครอบครัวผู้เสียหายและละเมิดสิทธิของผู้ต้องหา ตามหลักการดังต่อไปนี้ 1. การ ให้การในคดีที่มีโทษประหารชีวิต หากผู้ต้องหาไม่มีทนายความ พนักงานสอบสวนมีหน้าที่ตามกฎหมายในการจัดหาทนายความให้ผู้ต้องหาตามมาตรา 134/1 ประมวล กฎหมายวิธีพิจารณาความอาญาและกติกา […]