Women's rights

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organization in West Bengal, India, regarding the maltreatment of a couple by the Border Security Forces (BSF) in Murshidabad district on 21 September 2007. Although the victims lodged a complaint to the local police, the police have not […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding how the police at Rattota in Sri Lanka failed to collect vital evidence concerning the rape of a child in Matale on 8 November 2007. Furthermore, the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) made the suspect of rape sit in front of the minor while he interrogated them together, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed from Pakistan Women’s Lawyer’s Association that the police in Pakistan have been involved in beating, torturing and threatening a French researcher on 20 September 2007 and have not been charged. While no action has been taken against them, the police officials threaten local journalists […]

Dear friends, In this general update on events in Burma, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) concentrates on the following topics: – Details emerging of more deaths during September  – Denial of medical treatment for injured persons – Family members of wanted persons taken as hostages – Special concerns over women prisoners For all statements, […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from DASAN Human Rights Center, a human rights oranisation in South Korea that a mentally handicapped minor was kept in police custody for about 15 days after her arrest on 30 May 2007. It is alleged that even though the investigating officers failed to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that a rape victim was allegedly abducted by the perpetrator the rape which took place two years ago. Following her abduction on 15 August 2007, her parents reported the incident to the police in Galagedara and Anuradapura but, to-date, no measures what-so-ever […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organisation based in West Bengal, India regarding two cases where the local police in the state are involved in corrupt and questionable practices. The two cases below not only shows how the local police as an institution functions […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by allegations of the rape of a 15-year-old girl by a member of the Nepal Army, Ram Narayan Bhattari, and a civilian, Yadav Thapamagar, at around noon on July 19, 2007. The incident took place in the jungle near the Bheri Bridge at Latikoili […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding another attack to workers on strike in Rosario, Cavite on 6 August 2007. The attackers forcibly abducted two female workers and dumped them into a canal. The AHRC is gravely concerned about ongoing attacks to the workers on strike in the Cavite area […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you regarding the continued inaction of the police into the alleged sexual abuse of a five-year-old girl by her father. The girl’s grandmother filed a complaint at the Panwila police station in Kandy on 18 June 2007, but they have done nothing to investigate […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the torture and inhuman treatment of eight persons by the police in Khaipure Mirs District, Sindh.  The police tied the detainees with ropes and chains around their necks. The detainees were also forced to bark like dogs and bite each other like […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, human rights organisation based in West Bengal regarding the alleged case of rape of a Bangladeshi woman by the Border Security Force (BSF) stationed at the Indo-Bangladesh border. It is alleged that the woman who was taken into custody by the BSF […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by its local partner in Nepal, the Advocacy Forum, of the alleged appalling rape of a 14-year-old mentally ill girl by three police constables from Zonal Police Office (ZPO) and one civilian in Mahendranagar, Kanchanpur district on 4-5 June 2007. Two of the police […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the denial of the right to education to a 15-year-old rape victim in Ahangama, Galle District, Galle Division, Southern Range, Sri Lanka. From 15 May 2007, the school principal has refused to allow the victim to resume schooling following the rape incident on […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Advocacy Forum, one of the leading human rights organizations in Nepal providing legal aid services to detainees that a woman was brutally tortured and suffered and sexually molested by the police on grounds that she was involved in setting fire to a government […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that another five activists have been killed while another one was forcibly disappeared in separate incidents in February, March and May of this year. These belated reports received from various sources clearly exposes the reality of the alarming state of insecurity the […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information regarding the killing of three farmers and gruesome murder of a mother and her son in separate incidents on May 5 and April 2 respectively. The three farmers, namely Benjamin Gelongga, his son-in-law Richard Sarillo and nephew Bobby Quilo, were found dead in […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform you that two influential persons in Thailand have received long sentences for rape and murder of migrant workers. However, a police officer who assisted the offender in the rape case has not been punished as the case against her remains pending. BUSINESSMAN JAILED […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that another political activist, Orly Marcellana, narrowly avoided an attempt on his life on 10 May 2007. Marcellana is the husband of the late Eden Marcellana, a human rights activist murdered four years ago in Naujan, Mindoro Oriental. In another development, the complaint […]

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