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INDIA: Challenge the Draconian Black Laws in Meghalaya

PRESS RELEASE, December 10, 2013 Thma-U-Rangli-Juki (TUR), a progressive people’s organisation, will hold a street corner meeting on the draconian Meghalaya Preventive Detention Act (MPDA), 1995...

ASIA: Parliamentarians key to realising Pacific health rights

The important role of parliamentarians in the Pacific needs to be bolstered so as recent commitments to advance reproductive health and rights can be realised. That’s the message of the Asian Fo...

INDIA: अतिकुपोषित है मध्य प्रदेश का शहरी क्षेत्र 

म.प्र के ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में तो मातृत्व/बाल स्वास्थ एवं पोषण की स्थिति जगज...

PHILIPPINES: The killings of five journalists and activists in a week is evidence of a ‘license to kill’ 

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned over the renewed targeted attacks against journalists, human rights and political activists and indigenous people, in the Philippines. The ...

SRI LANKA: Indebtedness, militarization, & the threat against all human rights 

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on Human Rights Day Sinhalese The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-006-2013.pdf/...

INDIA: मानवाधिकार विमर्श में कहाँ खो जाती है तीसरे लिंग की आवाज़ 

माननीय उच्चतम न्यायालय के न्यायमूर्ति के.एस. राधाकृष्णन और ए.के. सिकरी की यु...

ශරී ලංකාව: ණයගැතිබව, හමුදාකරණය, සහ සකල මානව හිමිකම්වලට එරෙහි තර්ජනය 

English The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-006-2013.pdf/view අන්තර්ජාතික මානව හිමිකම...

ASIA: World’s economic powerhouse is home to hunger 

The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-007-2013.pdf/view The tale of hunger in Asia is a troubling one. It tells of people who have...

INDONESIA: Man in Bau-Bau dies under police custody, witnesses at high risk

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) concerning the death of a man in police custod...

INDIA: Violent Attack, Arbitrary Detention, Death Threats to activists of Meyor Community, Arunachal Pradesh

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from civil society groups regarding death threats, arbitrary detention and harassment of members of the Meyor community,...

PHILIPPINES: Human Rights Report for 2013 

The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-001-2013.pdf/view (Hong Kong, December 8, 2013) On the occasion of the Human Rights Day, 201...

INDONESIA: Democracy incomplete in 15 years of reform 

The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-002-2013.pdf/view In commemoration of Human Rights Day on December 10, the Asian Human Right...

INDIA: Where freedom & dignity remains a mirage 

The full report is available for download at: http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/hrreport/2013/AHRC-SPR-003-2013.pdf/view Human Rights Day commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of...

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 ...

SOUTH KOREA: Civil society launches ‘Samsung Labor Watch’

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release and declaration from ‘Samsung Labor Watch’. For more information, please directl...

ASIA: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela — AHRC salutes a great man, embraces his Legacy 

The Asian Human Rights Commission joins all people across the world to salute Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela of South Africa, who passed away at the age of 95 yesterday. In the person of Nelson Mandela the...

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...