Child rights

SRI LANKA: Brutal assault of a minor; threat and intimidation; violation of the right to freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; violation of the right to education; collapse of rule of law ——————————————————- Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that yet another case of […]

Dear friends, Following in the footsteps of four cases of abuse of students by their teachers in Sri Lanka in recent months, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has now learned of yet another incident of such nature. Saman Iddamalgoda, a teacher at Nitithigala Junior School, first asked 12-year-old Ranjith Kumara to remove his spectacles. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the unlawful criminal trial and arbitrary detention of an eight-year-old boy. On 10 March 2006, an eight-year-old boy named Muhamad Azwar (a.k.a Raju) was found guilty of assaulting his schoolmate by Judge Tiurmaida Pardede at Langkat District Court, North […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of 8-year-old, UG Isani Madushani by her class teacher, Sarath on 22 February 2006. On February 22, at around 12 noon, Isani Madushani was attending her math class. Her class teacher, Sarath instructed her to recite the multiplication table but […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of a 14-year-old boy, Manoj Tillakaratne, who was brutally assaulted by his physical training teacher, A.D.C Renuka on 31 January 2006 (See further: UA-060-2006).  Although the perpetrator was arrested and charged, he has now been released on bail.  The parents continue to receive […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission welcomes the landmark ruling by the Supreme Court of Nepal on Monday February 13, 2006, which declared the controversial Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC) unconstitutional and ordered it to be scrapped immediately. This has paved the way for the release of ousted Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, who had […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the brutal assault of 14-year-old Manoj Tillakaratne by his physical training teacher A.D.C Renuka on 31 January 2006. On January 31 Manoj had participated in a sports festival at school. Manoj had been taking part in the march when his physical training teacher, […]

[RE: UP-013-2006: BANGLADESH: Three persons tortured by the Chapainawabganj police; UA-041-2006: BANGLADESH: Eight people killed and at least one hundred injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj district; UA-013-2006: BANGLADESH: Two people killed and thirty-five injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj district] ———————————– UP-016-2006: BANGLADESH: Three detained and tortured leaders have been released from prison in […]

[RE: UP-43-2005: SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Questions remain in Sri Lanka’s willingness to save three of its citizens; UP-39-2005: Three Sri Lankans face imminent execution in Saudi Arabia; UP-38-2005: SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Please send a letter to the King of Saudi Arabia urging his intervention to commute the death sentence of three Sri Lankans; UP-34-2005: Death […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding 73 workers from the Orex Factory in Ekala, Jaela, Sri Lanka, who were unlawfully dismissed after the owner arbitrarily closed down the factory in 2002. The AHRC previously reported that the owner, Mohamed Mohamed Izzath deprived his workers of the Employees Trust […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an attempt by Guria, a human rights organization in Varanasi, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, to rescue underage girls from forced prostitution. The girls, who were freed from brothels by Guria, were later taken away by the police and are believed […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human +Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 16-year-old boy was assaulted by a school teacher at the Pannampitiya Secondary School in Lenadora, Dumbulla District, Sri Lanka on 22 September 2005. Due to the assault, the boy suffered from bad ear pain and blurred vision. He also had several scratches […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information through its local partner MASUM in West Bengal that Mr. Gopen Sharma, a human rights activist was illegally detained, threatened and assaulted by the officers at the Block Development Office in Jalangi, Murshidabad District, West Bengal. Mr. Sharma was, at the time of the […]

Media Release on 18 August 2005 The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka is deeply concerned to note the dramatic increase in child recruitment by the LTTE reported from our offices in the North and East. Despite the recent Security Council Resolution on Children and Armed Conflict adopted on 26 July 2005 , and the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the illegal occupation of a room in a primary school building in Kanchra village, Bardhaman District, West Bengal by the local police. In January 2001, while mediating between a village fight, the police started […]

[Re: UA- 50 -2005: INDIA: Three and a half year wait for justice for the brutal murder of an Adivasi (tribal person) by a forest official in Gujarat] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information on the case of Manishbhai Motibhai Vasava (30), an adivasi who was murdered by an Indian […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal about the illegal detention of a young boy, Rajiv, a class IX student of Maheshwari Vidyalaya, at the Golabari police station, Howrah, West Bengal. According to the police, Rajiv’s father, Mr Bhogendra Rai, who works […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of the recent actions by the School Principal at Bekkegama Junior School, Panadura, to degrade her students and deny them of their right to education. W. Charmali Fernando, Sayura Dilshan and P. Ravishka Maduramy are three six-year-olds who gained admission to the year […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of a situation regarding the denial of education to marginalised students affected by the tsunami in Sri Lanka. The Egoda-Uyana Junior School at Moratuwa in the Colombo District, Sri Lanka is situated in an area that was devastated by the tsunami of 26 […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the torture of a 8 year old child Munni, who was working as a maidservant in the house of Raja Mukherjee, a police sub-inspector (SI). Munni was brutally tortured and abused by SI Raja […]