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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a boy was brutally beaten by his principal and hospitalised on 3 August 2007. No action has been taken by the polic...

A group of 23 legal professionals and human rights activists from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Cambodia, Bangladesh, China and Thailand gathered in Hong Kong from May...

This is the first of the AHRC statements under the heading ‘Reflections on pictures’. We encourage everyone to send your reflections about the photo and the related human rights incident t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that 57 humanitarian workers have either been killed or subjected to forced disappearance since last year in Sri Lanka. The...

Recently Mahanama Tilakaratne, the Chairman of the Commission to Investigate Killings, Disappearances, Abductions and Unidentified Dead Bodies (the one-man commission) was quoted in the press as sayin...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged deprivation of the right to education of a 15-year-old schoolgirl by the Principals of two schools...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2007 AL-021-2007 A Joint Written Statement submitted by the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR), a non-governmental organiz...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-214-2007 September 4, 2007 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Government treats disappearances as ‘normal occurrences’ Several Sri Lanka...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged assault and injury caused to a schoolboy by a teacher of the Sumana Maha Pirivena in Ratnapura, Sr...

The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is gravely concerned by the insufficient action on the part of the Human Rights Council to address the growing problem of extra-judicial killings and . The ALRC ...

Last week the Sri Lankan Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) successfully prosecuted a police sergeant who had solicited and accepted a bribe of Rs. 6,000/= (US$ 60...

European and US embassies urged to protect threatened journalist Reporters Without Borders today voiced deep concern about the safety of top investigative journalist Iqbal Athas and his colleagues on ...

Cases of 547 persons killed and 396 persons disappeared during the period from January to June, 2007 according to a report published by three well-known civil society groups, the Civil Monitoring Miss...

A group of 25 human rights activists and defenders from Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Thailand who gathered for the Human Rights School Session of the ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the severe assault of a 40-year-old manual labourer K.W. Upali, allegedly by the Officer-in-Charge of Dodangod...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture of a 20-year-old man by the Galaha police. He was severely tortured despite his defence lawyerR...

Sri Lanka’s Deputy Solicitor General Savindra Fernando has been quoted in the local press as stating that Sri Lanka has often been bullied into signing United Nations (UN) conventions. He was speakin...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that a rape victim was allegedly abducted by the perpetrator the rape which took place two years ago. Following her ...

A common feature in several Asian countries is that the police, who are supposed to carry out investigations into crimes and abuses of human rights, do not have the necessary competence to carry out s...

In recent months spokesmen for the Sri Lankan government have become quite aggressive towards the country’s critics. The Attorney General severely attacked the International Independent Group of Emin...