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Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has previously reported that over several years, violence, blockades and lawsuits have been used in successive attempts to evict hundreds of fa...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a Thai paramilitary unit allegedly opened fire on a party of six Cambodians gathering rattan liana in the forest on the border o...
(Washington, DC, December 18, 2007) — Five leading international human rights organizations today called upon the Cambodian government to respect its international human rights commitments as w...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a journalist working for Koh Santepheap newspaper, Try Vantha, 46, has been threatened by a senior official of the social affair...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned from reliable sources that four police officers tortured and robbed a keeper of a Buddhist Centre, Muon Ham (42), on 8 December 2007 ...
The year 2007 will be remembered as a year in which brought out increasingly belligerent responses from ruling elites across Asia. It is certain that throughout the region more and more people are res...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from an official of the Cambodian Government Garment Workers Democratic Union (CGWDU), a human rights activist and other...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding threat of a journalist by military police captain on 27 November 2007. The journalist was interviewing with mi...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR), human rights organization in Cambodia that police force prevented the...
On November 19, 2007 an elderly man named Hach Tuos, 57, from Reaksmei Sang-ha village, Khnach Romeas commune, Bovel district in the northwestern province of Battambang, went with another man who he l...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources that a military police commander assaulted a man in Stung Treng province on 16 November 2007. The ...
On 13 November 2007, three villagers named Seng Kosal, 38, Kim Sovann, 55, and Chhim Sophoan, 42, all small traders living at Choam Sragnam pass of the Dangrek mountain range bordering Thailand in Tra...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources that a mixed forces composing of civilian and military police and forestry officials carried out a...
Presentation at the International Human Rights Colloquium at San Paulo organised by CONECTAS from 3rd to 8th November by: Basil Fernando Executive Director of the Asian Human Rights Commission This is...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the police arbitrarily confiscated all copies of a magazine without the court’s decision in Phnom Penh and th...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that on 4 July 2007, a court in Sihanoukville ordered the release of 13 men who were arrested in April 2007 whil...
Basil Fernando (A presentation for the International Seminar on Freedom from Torture Challenges we face for the rehabilitation and prevention on the occasion on the 25th anniversary of the Rehabili...
16 years ago today, the Cambodian warring factions representing their country and 17 concerned countries, including Cambodias neighbours, other Asian countries and western countries, gathered in Par...
Last week, almost exactly on the same day, two victims of crime expressed in public their fear of their attackers long after the offences had taken place. The first one was Ms Chem Sopheap, 35, a vend...
The following is a reply to a report published on October 12, 2007 in The Official Website of the Sri Lankan Government’s Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process, written by the Secretary...
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