Press Release

(Geneva, September 20, 2012) The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) will launch the Article 2 special report on Philippines, entitled: The Philippines’ hollow human rights system: how complaint and protection mechanisms fail, and why, in a side event during the 21st session of the UN Human Rights Council today. The side event, titled “Human Rights in the […]

(Hong Kong, September 10, 2012) Further to our Press Release of September 7, 2012, ASIA: Speeches of the Asian Alliance against Torture and Ill-Treatment – the meeting of the parliamentarians, we are pleased to inform you of this interview with Eran Wickramaratne, a Sri Lankan Member of Parliament, which he gave at the meeting of the Asian […]

(Hong Kong, September 7, 2012) We are glad to present several of the speeches made at the meeting held in Hong Kong from July 21-24 organised by the Asian Alliance against Torture and Ill-Treatment (AAATI) in which several parliamentarians from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Nepal, Indonesia and Sri Lanka participated. Several prominent human rights […]

(Hong Kong, September 06, 2012) The Asian Human Rights Commission endorses the following press release issued by activists and civil society groups concerning the ongoing Jal Satyagrah being held in Madhya Pradesh. The AHRC expresses deep concern about the government’s apathy and inaction towards the people’s legitimate demand. The following is the text of the […]

(Hong Kong, September 6, 2012) Mussah Sherian, the wife of the falsely accused human rights activist Temogen “Cocoy” Tulawie, thought she would just be “behind the scenes taking care of (their) children,” but it all changed after his arrest. Mussah now looks after their five children, namely Iman, 19; Imir, 15; Carrey, 12; Jihad, 8 […]

(Hong Kong, September 05, 2012) “This is taking the Ghandhian method to the water. To be submerged in water continuously for so many days is more difficult, in fact, than fasting…” Mr. Basil Fernando, Director – Polices and Programmes said referring to the ongoing protest in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India by the villagers who lost […]

(Hong Kong, August 23, 2012) The Asian Human Rights Commission on Thursday wrote to the government of Burma calling for a human rights lawyer to have his confiscated passport returned. In a letter to home affairs minister U Hla Min, the AHRC executive director Wong Kai Shing said that U Aung Thein had had his […]

(Hong Kong, August 17, 2012) Right to Life in collaboration with the Asian Human Rights Commission has created a video discussion between a Sri Lankan police officer and Mr. Basil Fernando of the AHRC relating to the elimination of torture in Sri Lanka. The video was produced by Sirimao Wijesinghe. The presentation may be viewed here. […]

(Hong Kong, August 3, 2012)  Mr. Eran Wickramaratne, a member of parliament called for elimination of widespread practice of torture in Sri Lanka as in many other countries of the region in an interview to a radio program. He hoped that all members of Sri Lankan parliament regardless of their political affiliations will come together […]

(Hong Kong, August 3, 2012) The Asian Human Rights Commission has welcomed the release from prison on an amnesty today of Phyo Wai Aung, a young man falsely accused, tortured and imprisoned over the April 2010 bombing, and has called for him and other freed victims of gross abuses of human rights in Burma to […]

(Hong Kong, August 2, 2012) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has sent a delegate today to observe the court trial of Temogen “Cocoy” Tulawie, a human rights defender who is presently detained and prosecuted on evidence obtained through torture and a forced confession. Rasika Sanjeewa Weerawickrama, a human rights lawyer from Sri Lanka, will […]

(Hong Kong, July 25, 2012) Parliamentarians from eight Asian states and civil society representatives, who met at Hong Kong for the first Asian parliamentarians’ meeting organised by the Asian Alliance against Torture and Illtreatment (AAATI), demanded firm actions from Asian states to end torture and ill-treatment in the region. Along with civil society representatives, dignitaries […]

(हङकङ, 19 जुलाई, 2012) एशियाली देशहरुमा व्यापकरुप्मा फैलिएको यातना र अंानवियेव्यवहारलाई कसरी रोक्थाम गर्न सकिन्छ भन्ने बिषयमा छलफल गर्ने उद्देश्यले एशियाका विभिन्न देशका सांसदहरु हङकङमा मिलेर विचार विमर्श गर्दैछन । उक्त तीन दिवसीय बैठक हङकङको कौलन शहरमा  21 जुलाईबाट शुरू हुन गैरहेको छ ।  यो बैठक संयुक्त राष्ट्रसंघको संधि‘यातना तथा अन्य अमानवीय र अपमानजनक व्यवहार […]

(हांगकांग, 19 जुलाई, 2012) एशियाई देशों में फैली व्यापक यातना और अनुचित व्यवहार को अविलम्ब समाप्त करने के उद्देश्य से कई एशियाई देशों के सांसद हांगकांग में मिलकर विचार विमर्श करेंगे. हांगकांग शहर के कावलून इलाके में आयोजित तीन दिवसीय यह बैठक 21 जुलाई से शुरू होगी. यह बैठक ‘यातना और अन्य निर्मम, अमानवीय और […]

아시아: 아시아 의원들, 고문 근절을 위한 방법에 대해 논의하다 (홍콩, 7월 19일, 2012) 여러 아시아국가에서 온 국회의원들이 자국에 만연한 고문 및 가혹행위를 종식시키기 위한 방법에 대해 토론할 예정입니다. 3일 동안 진행될 이 회의는 7월 21일부터 시작하며, 홍콩의 콸룬에서 개최될 예정입니다. 이 회의는 유엔 고문 및 그 밖의 잔혹한, 비인도적인 또는 굴욕적인 대우나 처벌의 방지에 관한 […]

အာရွ ပါလီမန္ပုဂိၢဳလ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ပက္သက္ၿပီး ညွင္းပန္းႏိွပ္စက္မႈမ်ား အဆံုးသတ္ရပ္တန္႔ရန္အတြက္ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ ဇူလိုင္ ၁၉၊ ၂၀၁၂၊ ေဟာင္ေကာင္ အာရွႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းရွိ ပါလီမန္ပုဂိၢဳလ္္္မ်ားသည္ မိမိတို႔ႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းတြင္ လက္ရွိ က်ယ္ျပန္႔စြာျဖစ္ေပၚေနသည့္ ညွင္းပန္းႏွိပ္စက္မွုမ်ားကို အဆံုးသတ္ရန္အလို႔ ဌာ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးရန္ အဆင္သင့္ျဖစ္ေနသည္။ သံုးရက္တာေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးပြဲကို ဇူလိုင္လ ၂၁ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ေဟာင္ေကာင္၊ ေကာင္လြန္းေဒသတြင္ ျပဳလုပ္မည္ျဖစ္သည္။ ဤအစည္းအေဝးပြဲမွာ ကုလသမဂၢ ေၾကညာစာတန္း တြင္တစ္ခုအပါအဝင္ အျဖစ္ျပဌာန္းထားေသာညွင္းပန္းႏိွပ္စက္မွုႏွင့္ အျခားေသာ လူမဆန္စြာ ျပဳလုပ္မွုမ်ား (သို႔) အျပစ္ေပးမွုမ်ား ကို ဆန္႔က်င္ေသာေၾကညာစာတန္းအား အဓိက ထားၿပီး ျငင္းပန္းႏိွပ္စက္မွုကို အဆံုးသတ္လုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္အတြက္ အေရးႀကီးေသာေျခလွမ္းတခုျဖစ္ပါသည္။ လာေရာက္ပါ၀င္ ေဆြးေႏြးၾကမည္႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့၊ အိႏိၵယ၊ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား၊ နီေပါ၊ ပါကစၥတန္၊ ဖိလပင္း ၊ သီရိလဂၤါ ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားမွပါလီမန္ပုဂိၢဳလ္္္္္မ်ား […]

ආසියානු මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසමේ නිවේදනයයි ආසියාව: වධ හිංසාව මුලිනුපුටා දැමීම සඳහා ආසියානු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීේවරුන් රැස් වීමට නියමිතයි (හොං කොං, ජූලී 20, 2012) ආසියානු රටවල් කිහිපයක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීනවරුන් එක් වී එම රටවල සෑම තැනම පාහේ ලෙස පැතිර ගොස් ඇති වධ හිංසාව සහ කෲර සහ අමානුෂික සැලකිලි භාවිතය මුලිනුපුටා දැමීම සඳහා සාකච්චා කිරීමට නියමිතය. හොං කොං හී […]

(Hong Kong, Hulyo 20, 2012) Nakatakdang mag-usap sa isang pulong ang mga mambabatas mula sa iba’t ibang bansa sa Asya para pag-usapan ang mga paraan paano matigil ang malawakang praktis ng tortyur sa kani-kanilang bansa. Ang tatlong araw na pulong ay gaganapin simula bukas, Hulyo 21, sa Kowloon, Hong Kong. Ang meeting na ito ay […]

UNTUK PUBLIKASI SEGERA SIARAN PERS AHRC-PRL-027-2012-ID (Hong Kong, 19 Juli 2012) Anggota parlemen dari berbagai negara di Asia bangga untuk bertemu dan mendiskusikan cara-cara untuk mengakhiri praktik penyiksaan dan perlakuan tidak layak di negara mereka. Rapat yang berlangsung selama tiga hari ini akan berlangsung di Kowloon, Hong Kong, dimulai pada 21 Juli. Rapat ini merupakan […]

(Hong Kong, July 19, 2012) Parliamentarians from several Asian countries are poised to meet and discuss ways to end the widespread practice of torture and ill-treatment in their countries. The three day meeting will take place in Kowloon, Hong Kong, starting on July 21st.  The meeting is a significant step towards the implementation of the […]