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INDIA: Independence August 15th 1947 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Sri Aurobindo which was previously broadcast over All India Radio. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ———...

PAKISTAN: Christians observe black day 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Pakistan Christian Post. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Pakistan Christian ...

SRI LANKA: The Right to Know the Fate of Relatives 

The Right to Know the Fate of Relatives What was the fate of Prageeth Eknaligoda? What Prageeth Eknaligoda’s wife and children are asking is this very elementary right: The Right to Know the Fate of...

SRI LANKA: Right to truth – the Prageeth Eknaligoda case 

As Prageeth Eknaligoda remains a matter of concern the principles of international law relating to the right to truth is a relevant issue. we reproduce below the General Comment on the Right to the T...

SRI LANKA: An Appeal to the women’s movement against inhuman treatment of a young woman on religious grounds 

This is a narrative of the husband of the victim, a 17 year old woman with a two month old child, who was subjected to the horrible experience of being beaten about 100 times with the hard centre stem...

PAKISTAN: Negligence of the authorities exposes the lives of millions to peril 

The negligence of the authorities and improper mechanisms to deal with natural disasters has put the lives of millions of people in peril after the heavy rains in Pakistan. As a result the lives of th...

INDIA: Daily discussion of the Fourth National Convention on Right to Food 

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the groups joining the fourth National Convention on Right to Food. Asian Human Rights ...

SRI LANKA: Where is Prageeth? 

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Reporters Without Borders. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ———...

NEPAL: The Nepal Army has given absolution to one of Maina Sunuwar’s murderers 

The Nepal Army announced on 14 July that an internal inquiry had found Major Basnet ‘innocent’ of the torturing to death of Maina Sunuwar. The details of the enforced disappearance, tortur...

NEPAL: The Nepal Army has given absolution to one of Maina Sunuwar’s murderers 

The Nepal Army announced on 14 July that an internal inquiry had found Major Basnet ‘innocent’ of the torturing to death of Maina Sunuwar. The details of the enforced disappearance, tortur...

SRI LANKA: Attack on mass media continues 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the South Asia Forum for Human Rights. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from the S...

NEPAL: Advocacy Forum and ALRC submit joint UPR report to the UN concerning ongoing violations and impunity

A Joint Press Release by Advocacy Forum and the Asian Legal Resource Centre NEPAL: Advocacy Forum and ALRC submit joint UPR report to the UN concerning ongoing violations and impunity Please find the ...

SRI LANKA: Moral dilemmas involved in the Sakvithi incident 

After the arrest of Sakvithi many persons from the more affluent sections of Sri Lankan society are demanding the money which they have invested in his illegal business. This raises many issues regard...

NEPAL: A young woman is tortured under interrogation at the Dolakha District Police Office

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a woman in her twenties was illegally arrested, strung up in a police station and badly beaten for a number of hours after she...

UPDATE (Nepal): Progress stalled in the investigation of Arjun Lama’s disappearance

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to draw your attention on the necessity to continue and increase pressure to see that the perpetrators of Arjun Bahadur Lama’s abduc...

BANGLADESH: Extremely poor elderly are denied their right to life with dignity, deprived of food and health security in Gaibandha district 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information regarding the elderly suffering from food and health insecurity in Northern Bangladesh, which was initially repo...

INDIA: A man’s life is at risk and his fate is unknown after his illegal arrest by the army in Manipur

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information regarding the illegal arrest and abduction of a man by army personnel at a check point in Imphal. The man was...

SRI LANKA: The state of denial and the descent to silliness 

For several decades now the Sri Lankan people have been exposed to extraordinary acts of separation, large scale forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture, illegal arrest and detention. T...

INDIA: Announcement on fourth National Convention on the Right to Food and Work 

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Steering group of the Right to Food Campaign. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Ko...

INDIA: A democracy that fights stones with bullets

*Avinash Pandey Thinking about tragedies, especially manmade ones, is a subversive process bursting with its inherent dangers. It makes one go numb, outrages the self and at times fills one with the d...