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NEPAL: Human Rights in Abeyance 

The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-004-2013.pdf/view The dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in May 2012 stalled efforts to...

PAKISTAN: The Country has turned into a Killing Field 

The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-005-2013.pdf/view A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on Human Rights Day AHRC ...

PAKISTAN: A lawyer working for missing persons and a student were abducted and there are reports about military operations in two districts of Balochistan

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a lawyer who was contesting cases of missing persons in the Balochistan High Court and a Baloch child were abducted...

BANGLADESH: UN intervention needed urgently for saving ordinary people’s lives and liberties 

Mr. Oscar Fernández-Taranco Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Office of the Assistant Secretary General United Nations UN Headquarters S-378, New York, NY 10017 USA Tel: +1 212 963 50...

INDIA: अधिकारों की छाँव तले झुलसते बच्चे 

बीते हफ़्तों में चुनावी सरगर्मी के बीच अंतर्राष्ट्रीय बाल अधिकार दिवस अनजान...

SRI LANKA: CHOGM no-show if human rights a no-go

(This article was first published by the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific (http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au) on November 7, 2013) There is little point in delegates ...

SRI LANKA/AUSTRALIA: PM’s stance validates torture

At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka at the weekend, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that while his government ”deplores the use of torture, we accept that sometimes, in ...

SRI LANKA: The Unfair impeachment of the Chief Justice?

Unfair Inquiry of only “Six Hours“- detailed facts & truths. The most astonishing, outrageous and mysterious aspect of the Impeachment proceedings is: How? The entirety of the ‘a...

PAKISTAN: Two young scheduled caste Hindu women were raped by Muslim landlords; one of them was later murdered

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two scheduled caste, Hindu women were raped by their Muslim landlords before their family members. Later on, one of...

INDIA: चुनावी राजनीति में कहाँ गुम हो गए बच्चों के हक के सवाल? 

आजकल मध्यप्रदेश के चुनावी समर में कुपोषण एक बार फिर प्रमुख चुनावी मुद्दा है|...

PAKISTAN: During the last eleven months 7,170 persons were killed and 8,746 were injured in different acts of violence

The killings were the outcome of bomb blasts, terrorist attacks, sectarian violence, targeted killings, operations by law enforcement agencies and US drone attacks During the year up to November 30 th...

INDIA: Implementation of the National Food Security Bill – will the poor benefit?[i] 

In a previous article I argued that India’s “rights revolution” has so far mostly existed on paper without significant improvements in the conditions of the poor. In this article I e...

INDIA: Report of the Fact Finding Committee on the suicide of Mr Venkatesh, Ph D Student, University of Hyderabad

Introduction: Mr Madari Venkatesh, Ph.D (Chemistry), third year student, in the Advanced Centre for Research in High Energy Materials (ACRHEM), University of Hyderabad, committed suicide by consuming ...

INDIA: Imminent threat of arrest and harassment to Ms. Sheeba Aslam Fahmi

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the imminent threat of arrest and harassment of New Delhi based journalist, feminist activist and human rights...

INDIA: Food Security Bill – Making sense of the media debate[i] 

The Government of India, led by Congress, claim to be champions of the poor. In the upcoming election they will point out that they have given rights to all the poor; The National Rural Employment Gua...

PAKISTAN: “Death in custody constitutes murder” rules the CJ in cases of disappearances 

Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry makes laudable efforts to hold the security forces accountable for enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and in pursuing the cases of missing persons It has b...

INDIA: बैगा समुदाय की परम्परागत खा़द्य सुरक्षा,पोषण एवं स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं की स्थिति 

An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: बैगा समुदाय की परम्परागत खा़द्य सुरक्षा,पोषण एवं स्वा...

INDIA: मध्यप्रदेश के सतना जिले में मातृत्व और बाल स्वास्थ की स्थिति 

मध्यप्रदेश के सतना जिले का मझगवां ब्लाक उ.प्र. की सीमा से लगा किनारे का ब्लाक ...

BANGLADESH: Attorney General’s Office Supersedes High Court 

The Asian Human Rights Commission has learned that direct intervention from the Attorney General’s Office of Bangladesh is preventing the release of ASM Nasiruddin Elan, Director of Odhikar, a ...

PAKISTAN: A prominent lawyer and five other activists were disappeared after their arrest by persons from security agencies 

With the change in Army command on November 27, a crackdown against the people in Balochistan started. A prominent lawyer, Mr. Haider KB son of Khuda Bux age 33, resident of Koshkalat, was arrested by...