Open Letter

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to draw your attention to important developments in the case of 78 persons killed in the custody of the Royal Thai Army after being arrested at Tak Bai, Narathiwat on 25 October 2004, and some six others killed in the course of a protest outside the district […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned from several newspaper reports that the former President of Sri Lanka, Chandrika Kumaratunga, has been appointed as senior consultant to UNESCO for education in Asia. The AHRC is surprised and shocked that a person with a record of grossly violating human rights, abusing power and displacing the […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission draws your kind attention to Sundara Arachige Lalith Rajapakse who was the author of the communication mentioned above. The AHRC understands that a copy of the decision has been sent to you by an Attorney-at-Law on behalf of Lalith Rajapakse.  I refer to the letter by R.S. Weerawickrama, Attorney-at-Law dated […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) greatly appreciates your address to the second session of the UN Human Rights Council on September 18, 2006, and in particular the attention you gave to the perilous circumstances in which the people of Sri Lanka find themselves.  As you may be aware, the AHRC has been directly concerned […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you on the occasion of the second anniversary of the murder of human rights lawyer Munir Said Thalib. September 7, 2004 is an unforgettable day for us. It is a day that has had lasting and resounding effects on countless thousands of people not only in […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you to express our deep concern over the continuing detention of Mr. Yengkokpam Langamba Meitei alias Thabi, the Publicity Secretary of the Threatened Indigenous People’s Society (TIPS), Manipur and Mr. Leitangthem Umakanta Meitei, the Secretary General of the TIPS. Mr. Umakanta is a member of the […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you on the occasion of the 2006 International Day for the Disappeared to encourage the Government of Japan to show leadership in addressing the incidence of forced disappearances in Asia.  As you are aware, many countries in Asia have suffered from very severe levels of disappearances […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you having learnt of your letter to the editor published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on 22 July 2006, entitled “Baseless complaint vs. graft-buster”. In the last paragraph of that letter you quote the 2005 Ombdusman’s annual report in order to assert that the part 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 and defective judicial institutions in Bangladesh, and to request that you consider assigning a special representative to the country on your behalf. The reasons are […]

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 systemic and grave abuses of human rights in their own country, and to request that you review their role in these missions with a view […]

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 Bangladesh, particularly for women. In recent weeks, as you may know, the AHRC has written to the UN […]

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, acute starvation and fabrication of cases against human rights defenders reported from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. The two organisations also appreciate the deputing of Additional Superintendent of […]

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 extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Attn: Lydie Ventre Room 3-016 c/o OHCHR-UNOG 1211 Geneva 10 SWITZERLAND Fax: + 41 22 917 9006  Dear Professor Alston BANGLADESH: […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you to seek your determined involvement to end the uncontrolled use of torture by the police and other government security forces in Bangladesh, which we strongly believe is posing a grave threat to the entire system of policing and justice there.  You may be aware that […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you today to request your serious attention to the non-independent lower judiciary of Bangladesh, and seek your active involvement in order to overcome persistent delays in separating the courts from other branches of government there. As you may be aware, on August 3 the AHRC wrote […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you today to draw the attention of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to the rampant and unrestrained abuses of human rights that are daily occurring in Bangladesh, contrary to the impression given by its government internationally, and to call for your intervention.  […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to write to you today on the historic occasion of the first police officer in Argentina being sentenced to jail last Friday, August 4 for having committed forced disappearances. As you will be aware, the news of Julio Simon’s imprisonment nearly 27 years after he committed the […]

This is the last in a series of five open letters that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has felt compelled to write to the UN Human Rights Council over the horrible human rights situation in Bangladesh, and its causes. As we have noted throughout, we are doing this as we are deeply concerned for […]

This is the fourth of five open letters that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) feels compelled to write to the UN Human Rights Council on the horrible human rights situation in Bangladesh, and its causes. As noted, we are doing this as we are deeply concerned for the integrity and credibility of the Council […]

This is the third of five open letters that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) feels compelled to write to the UN Human Rights Council about the horrible human rights situation in Bangladesh, and its causes. We are doing this as we are deeply concerned for the integrity and credibility of the Council if Bangladesh […]