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WORLD: UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to food recommends principles and measures to discipline “land grabbing”

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from United Nation. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————-  ...

SRI LANKA: A Marred Victory and a Defeat Pregnant with Foreboding

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the University Teachers For Human Rights – UTHR J (Jaffna ) Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An...

SOUTH KOREA: Statement from Professors in North America Concerned about Korean Democracy

The following represents the considered view of professors at colleges and universities throughout North America whose thoughts are with Korea and Korea’s democracy. In light of recent developme...

SRI LANKA: Statement of a Group of Concerned Tamils of Sri Lanka

Dear Friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from a Group of Concerned Tamils of Sri Lanka. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from aÂ...

INDIA: The treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) children in Madhya Pradesh — Suggestions for the policy

Greetings from Right to Food Campaign Madhya Pradesh Group! Right to Food Campaign Madhya Pradesh Support Group is an alliance of civil society organizations and peopleÂ’s organizations working across...

INDIA: The treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) children in Madhya Pradesh — Suggestions for the policy

Greetings from Right to Food Campaign Madhya Pradesh Group! Right to Food Campaign Madhya Pradesh Support Group is an alliance of civil society organizations and peopleÂ’s organizations working across...

BANGLADESH: Rights groups urged the government to probe human rights abuses and reform institutions

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Universal Periodic Review Forum of Bangladesh, a coalition of 17 human rights, womenÂ’s rights, labour and indigenous peopleÂ’s...

SRI LANKA: Poddala Jayantha – Latest Journalist victim in Sri Lanka

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from D.B.S. JeyerajÂ’s website. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from D.B.S. JeyerajÂ’s We...

THAILAND: Submission of ILO complaint regarding systematic discrimination against Burmese Migrants in Thailand

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the State Enterprise Workers Relations Confederation, Thailand (SERC) on submission of ILO complaint regarding systematic discrimin...

SRI LANKA: Vanni IDPs live under appalling condition – Sri Lankan Chief Justice

(This statement by the Chief Justice was aired with Tamil translation Wednesday night in MTV News bulletin). Vanni IDPs sheltered in transit centres in Cheddiku’lam cannot expect justice under t...

PAKISTAN: A tragedy of errors and Cover-ups

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is convinced that the cost of the insurgency in the Malakand Division has been increased manifold by the short sightedness and indecisiveness of the non-...

SRI LANKA: Press freedom activist badly beaten in Colombo, hospitalised

Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans frontieres 2 June 2009 Reporters Without Borders is outraged by an assault on Poddala Jayantha, the secretary-general of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Asso...

SRI LANKA: EU Press Statement on the Human Rights Council

Summary: 28 May 2009, Geneva – The European Union regrets that it was not possible for the Human Rights Council to agree on an acceptable outcome of the Special Session addressing the serious hu...

SRI LANKA: Following Human Rights Council’s regrettable failure to take action for accountability, alternative mechanisms may and must be activated for an international commission of inquiry

The resolution is a fundamentally partial and politicised response to a human rights and humanitarian crisis», said Souhayr Belhassen, President of FIDH. The text was drafted by the government of Sri...

SRI LANKA: Message to HR Council by High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay

at the Human Rights Council Special Session on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Message to HR Council by High Commissioner 26 May 2009 ...

PAKISTAN: Lift Swat Curfew for Trapped Civilians Food, Water, Medicine Running Out in Conflict Zone

(New York, May 26, 2009) – The Pakistani authorities should immediately lift a 24-hour curfew in place since May 18 in the Swat valley and adjoining areas of the Malakand Division of Pakistan’s...

THAILAND: On the Cases Related to Computer-Related Crime Act

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Thai Netizen Network (TNN) under Computer-related Crime Act of B.E.2550. For furthe...

PHILIPPINES: The AFP’s “Order of Battle”: Witchhunting and adulterated lies

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Union of PeoplesÂ’ Lawyers in Mindanao (UPLM). Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement fr...

THAILAND: The working Position of the Working Group on Justice for Peace

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following public statement from the Working Group on Justice for Peace (WGJP). Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Ko...

SRI LANKA: Fear for Safety/Incommunicado detention

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Amnesty International. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Amnesty International...