Violence against women

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the rape of a 14-year-old girl in Galagedara, Sri Lanka on 29 July 2005. After the girl’s father reported the incident to the police, the alleged perpetrator was arrested but later released on bail. The victim is now unable to either go home […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by another rape case committed by the government or security officials in Burma. According to the information received, two police officers, Tin Ko Oo & Kyaw Myo Min, together with a civilian named Naing Min, in Twente Township, Rangoon, Burma, raped a young woman […]

[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 alleged rape and murder of a woman in Hajipur village, 24 Parganas (North) District, West Bengal, India. Masoora Bibi, a widow lived in her in-laws house with her three children. On 18 June […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by yet another honor killing case from Shikarpur District, Sindh Province, Pakistan. According to the information we received, a 30-year-old woman and her 38-year-old uncle were shot dead by members of the woman’s family on 13 March 2005. It is reported that the perpetrators […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by yet another honor killing case from Shikarpur District, Sindh Province, Pakistan. According to the information received, an 18-year-old bride, Ms Arbeli (18), was killed by her groom Yousif and six other persons just two hours after the marriage formalities on 21 March 2005. […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organization in West Bengal, that a woman named Mrs. Gedulal Mondal, was raped and then killed by a suspected unqualified doctor on 28 December 2004, in Baishnav Nagar, Maldah District, West Bengal. Though the doctor has now been arrested, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, that torture and rape victim Hasna Mondal from East Daukimari, District Jalpaiguri, West Bengal is still waiting for the perpetrators to be punished, ten years after the brutal incident. A complaint was filed the day […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you of the gang rape of a woman by police personnel in Chuadanga, Bangladesh. On the night of 18 December 2004, 14 policemen from the Gokulkhali outpost in Chuadanga are alleged to have gang raped Dali Khatun after they picked her up from the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the exorbitant delay in the rape case of 16-year-old victim Rita, by the Attorney General’s Department. According to the information received, Rita’s case (No 32151) was returned by the registrar of Nuwara-Eliya Magistrates Courts on the request of the Attorney General’s Department on […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from local human rights groups that a 16-year-old girl (name withheld) was gang-raped by five army soldiers from Eastern Pritana headquarter, Itahari on 10 November 2004. It is also reported that after being raped, the girl was threatened by the army soldiers with their […]

[RE: FA-12-2004: PAKISTAN: Girls killed for visiting grandparents without permission in another ‘honour killing’ on 11 May 2004; UP-23-2004: PAKISTAN: Three of the nine perpetrators were arrested but the police officer pressured politically on 27 May 2004; UP-46-2004: PAKISTAN: Jirgas and feudal lords continue undermining rule of law in Pakistan on 17 August 2004] Dear […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received another honor killing case from Sindh Province, Pakistan. According to the information received, a 16-year-old girl, Gulzar, and her 19-year-old cousin, Ghulam Mustafa, were killed by Gulzar’s brother, Abdul Majeed, on 21 April 2004 on the pretext of honor killing. Even though he has filed […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Sita Sada, a 14-year old Dalit girl, was raped and killed by upper caste men on 17 May 2004. According to our information, while Sita was sleeping at night, more than 10 men came and dragged her out of the house. Two days […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man named Heeralu Mohottalalage Punchi Banda (39) was illegally arrested and tortured by the Sub Inspector (S.I.) Dhammika Bandara of Samanalaweva Police Post in Balangoda on 26 August 2004. Due to brutal torture, the victim still suffers from severe pain on his […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 10-year-old girl (name withheld) has been raped by six persons including her stepfather for over one year. The incident was reported by her teachers at the Hingurakgoda Police Station. Even though all the six persons were identified by the girl, only three […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received another honor killings case from Sindh Province, Pakistan. According to the information received, Ms. Mehan (22) was shot dead by her nephew Altaf (25) at her house in in Mirzapur village, Shikarpur district, Sindh province early in the morning of 7 July 2004. After killing his […]

Dear friends, It has come to the attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that a jirga was organized in the case of Hidayat Mahar, who was killed by her husband on the pretext of honour killing (see UA-28-2004). The jirga, headed by tribal leaders as well as a state official, forced the victim’s father […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the rape of a 30-year-old woman in a vacant train compartment at the Hasanabad Railway station, West Bengal on 18 August 2004. The woman was raped by a Railway Police Force constable while a fellow constable held a rifle pointed at the woman’s […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received another case of honor killing from Shikarpur district, Sindh province, Pakistan. According to the information received, on 14 July 2004, Ms. Sabhai (40) was shot dead by her younger brother Aashiq Ali (32) alias Babu in front of her son at the bus stop near […]