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INDIA: Torture and Custodial Deaths

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Vigil India Movement, written by Advocate. K. Pratap Reddy. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- The...

INDONESIA: Torture: A heinous act which is not seriously addressed

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following report on the practice of torture in Indonesia for the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture from the Commission for the Disappeared ...

INDONESIA: Papuan Peace Declaration

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following declaration from a group of Papuan organisations, indigenous and political Papuan stakeholders issued at the conference for peace in Papua which w...

PAKISTAN: Christian sanitation workers swept into societal gutter

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Compass Direct News, written by Asif Aqeel. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- Asif Aqeel The ofte...

INDIA/SOUTH KOREA: Does Posco really want to build a steel plant by trampling over residents?

Advocates for Public Interest Law Buddhism Human Rights Committee Corporate for All Democratic Legal Studies Association Democratic workers for Solidarity Joint Committee with Migrants in Korea Korean...

PAKISTAN: Secret, Dirty Killings in Balochistan

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from HUFFPOST UK, written by Peter G Tatchell. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- Peter G Tatchell Paki...

PAKISTAN: Another Pakistani woman is killed, yet officials remain silent

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Radio Free Europe through the Gandhara website, written by Daud Khattak. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ———...

MALAYSIA: More arrests and threats – the campaign of intimidation against human rights defenders continues

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from SUARAM, Malaysia. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from SUARAM forwarded by the As...

SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Rizana Nafeek sentenced to death without a postmortem report

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from The MUSLIMGUARDIAN. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the MUSLIMGUARDIAN forwarde...

SRI LANKA: Enough with the state secrets

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from The Saudi, written by Namini Wijedasa. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from The Saud...

SRI LANKA: 500 Days since the disappearance of Mr. Pattani Razeek! Still no police investigation

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Sri Lankan Civil Society Activists. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Sri Lank...

NEPAL : Fact sheet on torture in Nepal (26 June 2011)

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Center for Victims of Torture (CVICT) on the occasion of the International Day in suppo...

SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Medieval murder in modern times: Woman faces death by beheading in Saudi Arabia for crime she ‘committed as a child’

An article from the Daily Mail forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Medieval murder in modern times: Woman faces death by beheading in Saudi Arabia for crime she R...

SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Catholic wants Saudi maid investigation

Concern over ‘forced confession’ in wake of beheading of Indonesian worker ucanews.com reporter, Colombo Sri Lanka June 22, 2011       The family of Rizana Nafeek A Catholic...

WORLD: 100th ILO annual Conference decides to bring an estimated 53 to 100 million domestic workers worldwide under the realm of labour standards

A Press Release from International Labour Organisation (ILO) forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) WORLD: 100th ILO annual Conference decides to bring an estimated 53 to 100 million do...

PAKISTAN: Catholic woman kidnapped, drugged, and forced to convert to Islam and marry a Muslim may now be sold abroad

A Statement from Jihad Watch forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Catholic woman kidnapped, drugged, and forced to convert to Islam and marry a Muslim may now be sold abroad In Pak...

SRI LANKA: Is the Executive really more accountable to Parliament

Months after the 18th Amendment: Is the Executive really more accountable to Parliament? The 18th Amendment, we were told, would make the President more accountable to Parliament. The Editorial of the...

SRI LANKA: Accountability and justice in Sri Lanka: a new chapter at last?

An article from openDemocracy forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission Lutz Oette, 19th May 2011 Published on openDemocracy (http://www.opendemocracy.net) The recommendations in the Report of th...

SRI LANKA: Leadership training for university entrants

FRIDAY FORUM – PRESS RELEASE- Leadership Training for University Entrants. 9th June 2011 The decision in the Supreme Court dismissing, without stating reasons, all the petitions against the prog...

SRI LANKA: Friday Forum deeply concerned about recent appointments to Human Rights Commission

A Statement from the Friday Forum forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission We wish to question what human rights protection experience and credentials they bring to the Human Rights Commission. ...