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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...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-110-2009 May 18, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Government must now end the operation of anti-terrorism laws The Sri Lankan government ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-107-2009 May 14, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: The banality of evil and the Security Council intervention This week’s criticis...

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...

We reproduce below the United Nations Security Council resolution of Sri Lanka on 13thMay 2009 which was published by the Department of Public Information – News and Media Division – New York The fo...

Dear Friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Human Rights Watch. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Human Rights Watch forwa...

(New York) – The Sri Lankan armed forces have repeatedly struck hospitals in the northern Vanni region in indiscriminate artillery and aerial attacks, Human Rights Watch said today. Commander...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police officers are failing to act on a report made by a young girl, who was abducted and raped on 27 April. ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that two indigenous Papuans have died and three others have been injured after the unrestrained use of lethal fire arms by the Mobile...

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...

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

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...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge, widow of Lasantha Wickrematunge and 2009 UNESCO World Press Freedom Laureate on the World Press ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the detention and abduction of Sinnavan Stephen Sunthararaj, a human rights defender based in Jaffna...

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...

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...

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...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police attached to the Bulathsinhala Police Station allegedly assaulted a man and cut his hand with a knife while...

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-...

“We may have to take choppers and machetes, we will have to attack with choppers those who jump over the boundaries,” chanted a group of people from Hela Urumaya, (a Sinhala heritage party...