Women's rights

INDIA: Failure of police investigation into alleged dowry death of a woman

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Indian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Indian authorities are attached below […]

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Intelligence wing investigates into the rape case in Khulna

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wrote to you about a rape case happened in Khulna district, the victim has faced continuous threats from the alleged perpetrator due to the deliberate inaction of the Paikgachha police (To learn more details, please refer to our original appeals: UP-221-2006; UA-306-2006). We have now updated the information regarding […]

UPDATE (Pakistan): Sindh government ordered gang-rape victim to vacate safe-house

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a 16 year-old female gang-rape survivor has been allegedly ordered by the police to leave the safe-house where she and her family have been staying in Sindh province, Pakistan. The police allegedly threatened the victim to vacate the property on 26 March 2007, despite […]

INDIA: Police refusing to register a charge sheet in the case of rape of a minor girl

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the PVCHR, a human rights organisation based in Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh state, India regarding the rape of a 13 years old girl. It is alleged that police has failed to register a case against the criminals despite several complaints. […]

BANGLADESH: Extreme torture, child abuse and an extrajudicial killing in Bangladesh as Navy runs rampant

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from local human rights group ODHIKAR regarding the murder of Mr. Khabirul Islam Dulal, Commissioner of Ward No. 6 of the Char Fashion Municipality in Bhola district, allegedly caused by a brutal assault by naval officers on 20 February 2007. Mr. Dulal was […]

PAKISTAN: Young girl allegedly raped by 11 persons and paraded naked

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received a report of the alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old girl by 11 persons in Ubaro Town, Ghotki district, Sindh province, Pakistan on 27 January 2007. We were informed that the victim was forced to parade in naked back home by the alleged perpetrators. We […]

PAKISTAN: Four women allegedly murdered and one man injured by relatives on the pretext of honor killing

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we only could include e-mail addresses of a few of the Pakistan authorities in this case. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Pakistan authorities […]

INDIA: A woman repeatedly ill treated by in-laws; neglected by the police for two years

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Indian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Indian authorities are attached below […]

PAKISTAN: Rape victim held against her will for months must be freed

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a female was severely beaten by the police and, raped by her cousin in open view in August 2007 in Punjab province, Pakistan. She miscarried due to police’s beatings and later underwent a forced abortion when she became pregnant after having been raped […]

INDIA: Police inaction in an alleged murder of a woman by her in-laws due to the influence of the alleged perpetrators in West Bengal

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the alleged murder of a woman by her in-laws, which took place in Howrah district, West Bengal, India on 28-29 November 2006. Despite several suspicious factors of the circumstances of the victim’s death, the police are attempting to hush up the case by […]

CAMBODIA: Police bury a corpse of an alleged rape victim without postmortem

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern regarding the failure to conduct a proper postmortem examination by the police before they buried a female corpse recovered from a forest in Battambang province. There were indications that the woman could have been raped before she was killed. However, the police chose […]

INDIA: Deliberate police inaction into alleged dowry death despite the court order due to nexus between the police and the alleged perpetrator

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner MASUM in West Bengal regarding an alleged dowry death of a woman in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India on 3 July 2006. Despite the victim’s mother’s repeated complaints as well as a court order to investigate the case, […]

NEPAL: Mentally deficient woman allegedly assaulted and raped by an army officer

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Advocacy Forum, a local human rights organization in Nepal, of the alleged rape of a mentally deficient woman by an army officer in Kavreplanchowk district, Nepal on 23 December 2006. We were also informed that for four days since the incident, army […]

CAMBODIA: Forced eviction of 229 families in Sihanoukville

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Cambodian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Cambodian authorities are […]

UPDATE (India): Alleged rape and killing of a girl increase tensions in Singur

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Indian authorities. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to those people. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Indian authorities are attached below […]

NEPAL: No proper investigation has yet been done into an alleged rape case of two women by Nepal Armed Police

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you about the case of two women from Surkhet district in Nepal who were raped by the two Nepal Armed Force security officers, and the fact that no proper investigation into the case has been conducted. One of the arrested alleged perpetrators have […]

AFGHANISTAN: Warlords implicated in two separate cases of abduction and rape of two young girls

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received two separate alleged rape cases; one from the Shahre Buzurg district of Badakshan province and the other from the Aliabad district of Kondoz province in Afghanistan. In both incidents, the alleged perpetrators are government officers or warlords who are also members of the Jamiat-e-Islami (Society of […]

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Poor police investigation report makes way for alleged perpetrators to walk free

BANGLADESH: Rape; violence against woman; negligence of duty; threat; intimidation; extortion; corruption; abuse of power; collapse of rule of law ————————————– Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to update you about a case involving a rape victim who is facing continuous threats from the alleged perpetrator due to the deliberate inaction of […]

NEPAL: Alleged rape of 12-year-old girl by a policeman in Mohatari district

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partner, Advocacy Forum, a local human rights organization in Nepal, regarding the alleged rape of 12-year-old girl by a senior Police Constable in the Mohatari district of Nepal on the 18 November 2006. The alleged perpetrator is currently being detained by the […]

PHILIPPINES: Delays in prosecution causes prolonged detention of two farmers

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the prolonged detention of two farmers in Davao Oriental province, the Philippines. Both of them have been detained for almost three years without any progress in their case because the prosecution witnesses failed to appear in court on six occasions. One of […]