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A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the Occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, June 26, 2011 (The Asian Human Rights Commission has issued a report on 323 ...

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the Occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, June 26, 2011 Torture in custody is a serious problem affecting the rule of ...

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the Occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, June 26, 2011 Every year, 26 June marks the day to remember and renew our su...

Concern over ‘forced confession’ in wake of beheading of Indonesian worker ucanews.com reporter, Colombo Sri Lanka June 22, 2011       The family of Rizana Nafeek A Catholic...

On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Pictures by the Wayside and the Asian Human Rights Commission, present explaining why torture remains a key problem in Asia. ...

Dear friends,  Ms. Q. Mahendra Devi (42) is a widow and the mother of three children. She resides at No: 100/36, Dharmaraja Road, Kandy and works as a cleaning labour working for a private company. A...

Dear friends,  Impunity is being provided to a perpetrator of sexual harassment by the higher authorities and members of the ruling alliance. It is alleged by women’s organisations that the pri...

Dear friends,  Mr. George Jayakody (55) of No: 24, Kundalagama, Kundasale, Kandy is a businessman. In 2008 he wanted to sell his land he came to an agreement in the presence of a lawyer. The second p...

The attempt to trivialize the campaign on the disappearance of Prageeth Ekneliagoda Basil Fernando There are discussions about Prageeth Eknaliagoda’s abduction and disappearance that go somethin...

A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission and Advocacy Forum Following the adoption of the outcome report on the UPR of Nepal, Advocacy Forum (AF) and the Asian Human Rights Commission (A...

Dear friends,  A journalist has been implicated in a fabricated case of murder by persons from the ruling party. The journalist was assisting a rape victim (a 14-year-old girl) and her family in the ...

A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission and Advocacy Forum During the interactive dialogue of the Universal Periodic Review, continuous impunity for grave human rights violations had ap...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that Uparagadala village, affected by water borne diseases such as diarrhea since 2009, still faces a lack of safe drinking water and...

(Hong Kong, June17, 2011)  The Asian Human Rights Commission which has documented over 1500 cases of torture and ill treatment by the Sri Lankan police has now compiled a report of 323 cases. In this...

The correspondents of international media houses have been warned not to attend meetings or gatherings at the premises of the different press clubs in the major cities of the country. A circular from ...

We reproduce below the translation of the affidavit written by Rizana Nafeek on January 30, 2007 which was published by the Asian Tribune today. This affidavit gives, for the first time, her version o...

A Statement from Jihad Watch forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Catholic woman kidnapped, drugged, and forced to convert to Islam and marry a Muslim may now be sold abroad In Pak...

Months after the 18th Amendment: Is the Executive really more accountable to Parliament? The 18th Amendment, we were told, would make the President more accountable to Parliament. The Editorial of the...

An article from openDemocracy forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission Lutz Oette, 19th May 2011 Published on openDemocracy (http://www.opendemocracy.net) The recommendations in the Report of th...

FRIDAY FORUM – PRESS RELEASE- Leadership Training for University Entrants. 9th June 2011 The decision in the Supreme Court dismissing, without stating reasons, all the petitions against the prog...