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A Statement from Baloch Students Organisation Azad forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission The Baloch Student Organisation Azad (BSO-Azad) has documented the cases of alleged extra judicial kil...

The Asian Human Rights Commission condemns the excessive use of force and the lack of due process in the eviction of the community living in the squatter settlements in Thapathali, Kathmandu on the ba...

(Hong Kong, May 10, 2012) The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to announce the release of a new documentary entitled: The police torture epidemic in Sri Lanka. Directed filed and edited by Josefin...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the human rights defenders, Mr. Baba Jan Hunzai along with four companions was brutally tortured by the police and ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission has had discussions with the leaders of the Ahmadis, a religious minority community of Islam, at Lahore, Punjab province. During these discussions it was found that t...

It is hard to detect and substantiate emotional abuse of female child because of many reasons, including a clear lack of an accepted and consistent definition and least importance of the subject matte...

A Joint Press Release by ACAT-France and the Asian Legal Resource Centre (Hong Kong & Paris, May 5, 2012) The Hong Kong-based Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and Action by Christians Against To...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Small Dams Organization (SDO) of Punjab Irrigation and Power Department has served 31 eviction notices on hundr...

Nilantha Ilangamuwa I ask no monument, proud and high, To arrest the gaze of the passers-by; All that my yearning spirit craves, Is bury me not in a land of slaves – Frances Harper Read this car...

Basil Fernando “I am expected to take my oaths next year, but now I have to rethink whether an attorney could work according to his or her conscience and seek justice for the aggrieved party giv...

An analysis of ongoing “abduction blueprint” in Sri Lanka JC Weliamuna* In a country that has achieved so much in literacy, education and social development, is it not indeed unfortunate that “W...

Basil Fernando A few preliminary remarks At the very outset it is necessary to place the problem of criminal justice reforms in SouthAsian countries in its actual context. The existing criminal justic...

The attempt by the Supreme Court of India to draw-up operative principles for the media outlining the contours of Article 19 (1) (a) of the constitution is an exercise that the Court should not ventur...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to express its deep concern at the latest developments in the establishment of transitional justice institutions in Nepal. On 19 April 2012, the major p...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following joint statement from non-governmental organisations and social activists based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong R...

The Court case in relation to the disappearance of Journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda was taken up for hearing at the Appeals Court in Colombo on April 24. The hearing opened as the attorney appearing for...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, concerning the case of torture by the Border Security Force of an innocent person in Ramnarayanpur village o...

A President of one of the two counties almost perennially at war with each other visiting the other, what on the face of mother earth makes news that gets bigger than this? The fact that this is a Pre...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Catholic (National) Commission for Justice and Peace. Asian Human Rights Commission Hon...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances. For inquiries, please contact to Ms. Mary Aileen Bacalso from the Asian Fe...