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The kinds of punishments that are meted out in Sri Lanka today are not based on the making of distinctions between guilt and innocence. Within any system of criminal justice making distinctions on gui...

The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that a girl was murdered on the . The police from four different districts were allegedly involved in the abduction and subsequent killing of...

NAME: SINNAVAN STEPHEN SUNTHARARAJ WIFE’S NAME: VATHANA SUNTHARARAJ Stephen is a B.A. graduate in Sociology from the University of Jaffna. From 2001 to 2003 he worked as Assistant Lecturer in th...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-105-2009 May 12, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BURMA: Imprisoned Burmese prodemocracy activist is awarded 2009 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights Awa...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on 8 May had issued a statement exposing the controversial steps taken by the Rajasthan state government in the excuse of ensuring security in the state. The s...

This paper was presented to a conference organized by the World Council of Churches held in Bangalore India in April 2009 on Peace, Security and Development in South Asia. As a background to this pape...

On May 12, 2009, the United Nations General Assembly will hold elections to the UN Human Rights Council. Five seats will be available to the Asian region. Only five States from the region – Banglades...

Stephen Suntharaj, age 39, has been working for Centre for Human Rights and Development (CHRD) since March 2008 as program officer. He formerly worked for Child Protection Authority, Jaffna branch. St...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-100-2009 May 8, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission CAMBODIA: The Bar Association must not be an instrument to curtail professional freedom The inter...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  May 8, 2009 AHRC-OLT-017-2009 An Open Letter to the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for Human Rights by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) J...

During the fourth phase of the national general elections held yesterday in India, the state government of Rajasthan has resorted to controversial security measures. On the pretext of ensuring safety,...

India is about to complete the national general elections to the 15th Lok Sabha. The fifth and the last phase of the election is expected to be completed on 13 May. The results will be declared on 16 ...

The world’s attention at the moment is fixed on about 192,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and another 50,000 – 100,000 civilians trapped within a five square-kilometer area in what...

To:  The Member States of the General Assembly Your Excellency, On the occasion of the Human Rights Council elections on May 12, 2009, we, the undersigned international human rights organizations, wi...

The resignation of the Prime Minister of Nepal and its prompt acceptance by the country’s President, expose the vulnerability of the ongoing democratisation process in that country. The peace pr...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-096-2009 May 6, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Fundamental rights upheld Supreme Court holds that police authorities have not heeded ch...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-097-2009 May 06, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: The dubious role of Pakistan army in dealing with Taliban thereby legitimizing the mas...

Last Friday, May 1, the appointee Senate of Thailand elected seven new persons as the country’s National Human Rights Commission. They are, Police General Vanchai Srinuwalnad, assistant commissi...

The parents in Batticaloa decided to stop sending their children to school for a week as a mark of protest over the kidnapping and killing of an eight year-old girl Satheeskumar Thinuska. Earlier six-...

At a news conference on 23 April 2009, Ms Mu Sohua, Member of Parliament (MP) for the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), flanked by her lawyer, announced that she was going to file a defamation lawsui...