AHRC News

The following is the first part of the interview with Mr. Kantilal Ukabhai, a Dalit human rights activist from India. The interview was done by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) at Hong Kong. K...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received a copy of a petition written by 92 lawyers practicing in Kandy complaining of a serious obstacle to their practice. Furthermore, the right of liti...

The government’s response to human rights violations in Sri Lanka, such as torture, extrajudicial killings and attacks on media personnel is that they are definitely concerned about it, but are unabl...

The authorities in India appear to be becoming paranoid about human rights work in the country. For a country that spares no venue to boast about its justice mechanisms, domestic laws and its commitme...

While the world has had its attention turned rightly towards the Cyclone Nargis tragedy and the worst-ever response to a natural disaster by a government of modern times, the authorities in Burma have...

The Inspector General of the Bangladesh Police, Mr. Noor Mohammad, was widely cited in the national dailies on 10 June 2008 following his comments in a press briefing held at Police Headquarters on 9 ...

On June 8, a peace advocate, a known broadcast journalist and her two cameramen were reported to have been abducted by an illegal armed group in the Sulu Archipelago, in the southern Philippines. Howe...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-159-2008 June 10, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Government should not use force against lawyer’s long march The government of P...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has collected details of detention and torture centres in Pakistan, where missing persons are held for long periods of time in order to force them to confess t...

Cambodia is making preparations for the general election to be held on 27 July 2008. Yet, well before the start of the official campaign period, which is due on 27 June, the 11 registered parties have...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-156-2008 June 4, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BANGLADESH: UN Human Rights experts should intervene to stop en massearbitrary arrest The New A...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to convey its appreciation to the response taken by your office by immediately conducting an investigation into the killing of three persons on pretext ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) strongly condemns the excessive force used by the police on peaceful demonstrators holding a candle light protest against the Korean government’s agreement to...

Mr. Abdul Wahab Baloch, a peace activist and Baloch nationalist, who was missing since his arrest on May 28, 2008, was released from the custody of the Secret Intelligence Agency of the Pakistan army ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) congratulates the people of Nepal on its transition into a Secular, Federal Democratic Republic. The declaration made on 28 May 2008 by the Constituent Assembl...

We wish to share with you the following speech of Mr. Muneer Malik, delivered on his acceptance of the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights. He received the human rights award on May 18, 2008 on the occasio...

(This statement is an urgent call for intervention to save the who is pursuing complaints against the police at the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and the High Court of Negombo and who had a successful ca...

For many years now land grabbing has been a serious issue in Cambodia, when the rich and powerful, through illicit means acquire land belonging to weaker and poorer people. In the month of May 2008 th...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to bring to your urgent and immediate attention the serious situation faced by journalists in Sri Lanka. In a letter received by the AHRC addressed to t...

The Prothom Alo, a vernacular national daily newspaper of Bangladesh, reports in its 27 May’s online edition that a person was held in detention for 14 years in the Bagerhat District Jail with...