Labour rights

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a woman in Sindh has been arbitrarily denied her job in the civil service for nineteen years. Though officially appointed as a Social Welfare Officer in Karachi in 1990, she has been barred from taking up the job since, without explanation or official confirmation.  […]

Ssang Yong Motor Company fired around three thousands workers. The labour union tried to negotiate this matter with the company, but both parties failed to agree. Subsequently, the workers and the labour union occupied the working place and protested against the dismissal. They also demanded that the government and the company take a genuine step […]

By Mr. Amir Murtaza. The research was conducted by a group of students headed by Amir Murtaza conducted the research. The use of children as domestic servants is certainly one of the most pervasive forms of child labor in Pakistan. Children as young as five spend 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a […]

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Universal Periodic Review Forum of Bangladesh, a coalition of 17 human rights, women’s rights, labour and indigenous people’s rights NGOs from Bangladesh. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from the Universal Periodic Review Forum of Bangladesh, a coalition of […]

(Hong Kong, February 26, 2009) After his case was exposed it has been learned that claims for payment of accident compensation are possible.  When Tibio Melvin Delos Reyes, a 20-year-old Filipino worker, and his mother, Cheung Babelyn, were first interviewed after seeking assistance from the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), they had no idea as […]

(Hong Kong, February 18, 2009) A twenty-year-old Filipino waiter, who suffered second degree burns to his face and chest caught fire in a work related accident has now sought compensation for the injuries he has suffered.  It was on 21 January 2009 that the waiter, Tibio Melvin Delos Reyes, meet with the accident when a […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MINBYUN-Lawyers for a Democratic Society that thugs hired by a company and members of its staff assaulted workers and demolished their temporary tents while they were asking for reemployment. The workers have been holding a protest near their company for over three years. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern about the continuing threats to four union leaders, including a union president, and dozens of other workers. Others preferred not to divulge their names. The soldiers had deliberately warned them, one after another that they would suffer consequences if they not stop their […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by Guria, a local human rights organisation based in Varanasi, India that a female minor, Maya, was kidnapped and sold by human traffickers.  The girl was sold to the owner of a brothel, held captive, raped, forced to become a prostitute, and tortured with […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a union leader was dismissed allegedly for wearing a protest T-shirt while outside of work on July 30, 2008. While a protest regarding her dismissal has continued, tens of colleagues who held a protest were threatened with dismissal and suspension. CASE DETAILS: Body […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that several union leaders and factory workers of a footwear company were illegally terminated when some of their female colleagues exposed their employer’s sexual abuse on them. Their termination had also effectively deprived them possibility from having their union legally recognized. As they […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about a young conscripted man who has served as a battle policeman. He has been repeatedly ill-treated by way of disciplinary punishment. This started after he expressed his opinion on the internet, and after asking for a change in his position, on 12 June […]

(Hong Kong, July 25, 2008)  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) supports a petition seeking the suspension of a levy, not only for new but for existing contracts of Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDHs), to avert threats to their job security. On July 17, the Hong Kong Labour Department announced it would seek an amendment so […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the police allegedly ordered parents to pay a bribe of 150000 riels (US$37.5) each if their sons were not to be arrested after these youths had damaged a party sign in Soeung commune, Bor Keo district, Rattankiri province. On 2 July 2008, they arrested […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Navsarjan, a human rights organisation working on Dalit rights in Gujarat about the death of two manual scavengers. It is reported that the deceased were employed by a Municipal Corporation in Gujarat. The two victims died inside manhole at about 10:30 pm, two […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the continued failure of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) to implement the order by their regional office requiring a Korean-owned garment factory to pay their workers the back wages and benefits due to them. They have also failed to have the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that two migrants workers, newly elected as president and vice president of Migrants’ Trade Union (MTU) were again arrested on 2 May 2008 and deported without due process on May 15. CASE DETAILS: Abdus Sabur has been involved in the struggle for migrant […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that soldiers continuously threatened and harassed a union president and her fellow workers. The workers, presently holding a picket line in front of their factory, were questioned in separate occasions about personal details of their president. The soldiers were falsely accusing their leader as leftist; […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a government owned firm has unfairly terminated three workers, including a union leader, and suspended 36 others for holding a symbolic protest demanding the provision of benefits due to them. Their demand is part of the Collective Negotiation Agreement (CNA) Incentives which […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the family of a man who was taken to serve as a porter for the Burma army was paid less than six US dollars as compensation for his death. The victim died in 2006 after he was taken from the central prison. Up […]