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(Hong Kong, March 27, 2009) The AHRC is happy to announce that this book by one of the world’s best known authorities in the field of human rights is now available in our website by the kind permissi...

Dear Friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Minuwangoda police arbitrarily arrested some parents on the 17 February and held them as hostages until their...

A national authority for the prevention of abductions, and a national institute for studies on the prevention of extrajudicial killings are urgently needed The abduction of six-year-old Varsha Jude Re...

24 March 2009, WASHINGTON/HEIDELBERG — Today, a coalition of faith, hunger, international development, human rights, farm and food organizations including FIAN International sent a letter to Pr...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an alleged illegal arrest, torture and ill treatment of a man by a Sub Inspector of police attached to Meega...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Meegahatenna police allegedly tortured a man on March 1, 2009 in Sri Lanka. After the torture, police manacle...

A comparison of the abduction of Varsha Jude Regi and the Delgoda family massacre The abduction and the killing of six-year-old Varsha in Trincomalee, followed by the deaths in custody of two of the a...

Sri Lankans looked at their TV screens and newspapers last week with shock and shame as the story of the abduction and killing of six year old Varsha Jude Regi of Trincomalee came to the attention of ...

Please find attached the link for a Study on the prevalence, determinants and causes of torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (CIDTP) in Sri Lanka. http://mat...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, stated on the 13th March: “Certain actions being undertaken by the Sri Lankan military and by the LTTE may constitute violatio...

Reporters without Borders, which has consultative status with the United Nations Human Rights Council, today asked the council to intercede on behalf of two imprisoned Sri Lankan journalists, J.S. Ti...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  March 18, 2009  ALRC-STM-002-2009 A Statement by the Asian Legal Resource Centre ASIA: The region to benefit from the High Commissioner’s visit The Asian Legal Resource ...

GENEVA (OHCHR ¡V 13 March) — The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed her growing alarm Friday at the increasing number of civilians reported killed and injured in the co...

(Hong Kong, March 16, 2009) The Asian Legal Resource Centre has produced a new report in the latest volume of article 2 (volume 8, No. 1) on the abuse of police powers of arrest and detention for mone...

Dear Friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture of a youth by officers attached to Moragahahena police for the purpose of obtaining information ...

The government’s announcement that permission from the Ministry of Defence is required for all functions to be conducted with the participation of the general public, and that the approval of the nea...

A core element in any judicial function is impartiality. The common saying is that judges need not only to be impartial but need to be seen to be impartial. Over the centuries codes of conduct have be...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Wennappuwa police tortured a young man on October 8, 2008. Following his arrest the police did not inform his...

Government and Tamil Tigers Should Allow Civilians to Flee Conflict Area (New York, March 5, 2009) – The Sri Lankan government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) should immedi...

(Hong Kong, March 6, 2009) In the fundamental rights case filed by two lawyers, Amitha Ariyaratne and H.R.D.G. Mendis, a husband and wife who are both Attorneys-at-Law, filed against the Inspector Gen...