Right to education

In a society infested with extremism and intolerance sadistic and violent behaviour is a natural outcome. As part of their daily lives, children all over Pakistan are spanked, slapped, hit, beaten and battered by parents and teachers. Corporal punishment may just be an impulsive reaction of an irritated parent or teacher. Yet In every case, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about a child with special needs being unable to attend school as a result of a leading girl’s school in Colombo refusing to provide her with the necessary facilities. The child, since birth, has been unable to walk and needs a wheel chair to […]

Dear friends, The Monaragala Wellassa Subagya School, in the Monaragala District is a school providing education to children with special needs in several surrounding districts in the region. The school is administered under the Ministry of Social Services and the Ministry of Education. However, since April 2015, the administration of the school was vested solely […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding military intervention in academic discourse on the subject of Balochistan. A talk scheduled at the Lahore University of Management Science on Balochistan has been cancelled on the written orders of Lieutenant-General Rizwan Akhter, Director General of Pakistan’s notorious intelligence agency, the ISI. Two prominent […]

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 […]

Police excess is quiet a norm in Pakistan but on January 23 police transcend their authority and baton charged school children who were demanding that their school run by trust be reopened and administration not handed over to government. The students of Government Islamia High School near Bhati Gate Lahore along with their parents were […]

(The following article was originally published in the Ethics In Action, a bi-monthly publication devoted to discussing how movements and leaderships claiming to uphold ethics and morality have failed to promote and protect human rights. Click here to read the latest issue of the journal   ) The word ‘rights’ very often seem so wrong—politically,  socially […]

เผยแพร่วันที่ 22 ตุลาคม 2557 ใบแจ้งข่าว สองผู้ต้องหาพม่าคดีเกาะเต่า ยื่นหนังสือผ่านตัวแทนสภาทนายความ ร้องขอความเป็นธรรมต่อพนักงานอัยการจังหวัดเกาะสมุย ปฏิเสธไม่ได้ฆ่าหรือข่มขืนนักท่องเที่ยวชาวอังกฤษ ระบุถูกเจ้าหน้าที่ซ้อมให้รับสารภาพ เมื่อวันที่ 20 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2557 คณะกรรมการสิทธิมนุษยชน สภาทนายความ ได้แต่งตั้งคณะทำงานเพื่อให้ความช่วยเหลือคดีที่ผู้ต้องหาชาวพม่าสองราย นาย วิน หรือเนวิน และนายซอ ถูกตั้งข้อหาในคดีอาญา จากเหตุการณ์ฆาตกรรมสองนักท่องเที่ยวชาวอังกฤษ นายเดวิด มิลเลอร์ วัย 24 ปี และนางสาวฮันนาห์ วิทเธอริดจ์ วัย 23 ปี ที่เกาะเต่า จังหวัดสุราษฎร์ธานี เหตุเกิดเมื่อวันที่ 15 กันยายน พ.ศ.2557 โดยมีนายสุรพงษ์ กองจันทึก เป็นหัวหน้าคณะทำงานช่วยเหลือคดีและประเด็นอื่นๆที่อาจจะเกี่ยวข้องกับการละเมิดสิทธิมนุษยชนของผู้ต้องหาในคดีอาญา โดยมีทนายความอาวุโสจำนวนหนึ่งร่วมเป็นคณะทำงานดังกล่าวด้วย ความคืบหน้าล่าสุด วันที่ 21 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2557 ทนายความของคณะทำงานดังกล่าวได้เข้าพบผู้ต้องหาเพื่อสอบข้อเท็จจริง โดยทางเรือนจำอำเภอเกาะสมุยได้จัดพื้นที่ให้คณะทนายความได้พูดคุยกับผู้ต้องหาได้อย่างเป็นอิสระ การสอบข้อเท็จจริงใช้ระยะเวลากว่า 5 ชั่วโมง […]

( Hong Kong, October 23, 2014) 20th October 2014, The Human Rights Commission of the Lawyer Council of Thailand set up a working group to provide legal aid to Win or Win Saw Thun and Zaw Lin, the two Burmese suspects in the murder of David Miller, 24 and the rape and murder of Hannah Witheridge, […]

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 […]

A Divisional Bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) upheld the death penalty of a Christian woman convicted of Blasphemy by a Sessions’ Court in 2010. Ms. Aasia Bibi, was a mother of five. She was arrested in 2009 under blasphemy charges while working in a farm with many other Muslim women. A two-judge bench […]

Malala Yousafzai; the epitome of the fight against religious oppression of women The Asian Human Rights Commission takes the greatest pleasure in congratulating Malala Yousafzai on the occasion of being awarded the Nobel Prize for female education.   Malala in her struggles which she began as a child, defied religious extremism of the worst kind in […]

The worst ever industrial disaster in Pakistan’s history occurred on 11th September 2012 when a massive fire in the three-storied garment factory called Ali Enterprises situated in the Baldia Town area of Karachi caused the deaths of 259 workers and serious injuries to 55 more. Two years have passed since that tragic accident sent shock waves […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from the Defend Job  Philippines about the forced demolition of roughly 277 houses in Sitio Balacabacan, Laiya, Batangas, Philippines. The demolitions were carried out on 3 July 2014. The AHRC has also learnt that the authorities are intimidating the community which is now living in […]

Pakistan like other developing countries that face, dearth of democracy and abundance of abusive authority has never been a homogenous country. There is the Pakistan of masses and there is the Pakistan of classes. For the poor and powerless of this sixth most populous country, human development based on essential core values like self esteem, […]

National history is written from a certain perspective. And, it can be rewritten later from other perspectives. However, it should not be forgotten that the purpose of having a national history, which itself underlines certain aspects of national memory, is so that accumulated wisdom from the past can circulate in society. Future generations can utilize […]

More than a Policy, Children Need Commitment! On 10th June 2014, Pawan Korku (4 years) and Durgesh Korku (6 years) climbed into an iron drum in their house along with their toys presumably as part of a game they were playing, in their house in Harrai village, District Betul, a tribal dominant district of Madhya […]

(Hong Kong, June 26, 2014) To mark the day for victims of torture, a forum and a public gathering with migrant workers will be held simultaneously in Central and in Causeway Bay on Sunday, June 29. For the Filipino community, an indoor forum on “Torture and human rights in the Philippines” will be held in […]

The writer is the Pakistani Executive Director of the Center for Research and Security Studies, a think tank established in 2007, and an Islamabad-based freelance columnist. There are only 14 million Jews in the world; seven million in the Americas, five million in Asia, two million in Europe and 100,000 in Africa. For every single […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that five students have been expelled and four students have beensuspended from the faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences of ‘the University of Poonch, RawalaKot’ Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Pakistan, for demanding the accreditation of their faculty. From the nine expelled and suspended […]