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SRI LANKA: An Open Letter to all Parliamentarians on the need to urgently deal with Lawlessness in the Police 

I am writing this on behalf of the Asian Human Rights Commission on a matter that is, I am sure that of great importance and urgency to all the members of parliament, whatever political party they mig...

INDIA: What the administration has failed to accomplish in the past 35 years 

On 13 August, 2009 the Chief Officer of Women and Child Development Department in Khandwa district, Madhya Pradesh visited Spandan, a human rights group working on right to food. Since the children di...

SRI LANKA: Criteria to measure human rights improvements 

“Has protection of the minorities improved? What about those detained because they are suspected of having had links to the LTTE, without any evidence to that effect? What about the human rights...

INDIA: Authorities must do more for a 14-year-old girl who was raped then shot

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from QIC-AC Uttar Pradesh (QIC-AC UP), a human rights association that in Bahraich district a 14-year-old girl was sexua...

PAKISTAN: A newspaper in Balochistan forced to cease publication after the Frontier Constabulary cordoned off its office 

Journalists of the military-torn province of Balochistan are facing direct threats from law enforcement agencies, particularly from the Frontier Constabulary (FC), a paramilitary force operating again...

PAKISTAN: Religion should promote peace, not violence 

The recent attacks on Christian communities in the village of Korian in the Toba Tek Singh District of the state of Punjab on July 30 and in nearby Gojra on August 1 are of grave concern to Interfaith...

INDIA: Social ostracism against Dalits for refusing to dispose of dead animals

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Navsarjan Trust, a Gujarat-based human rights NGO, that there has been a social boycott put into place by the e...

SRI LANKA: When the law becomes comic – Part 10 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

SRI LANKA: When the Law becomes comic – Part 9 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part 8 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part Seven 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian ...

SRI LANKA: The government should appoint a group of Supreme Court Judges to inquire into the police extrajudicial killings 

Basil Fernando Large crowds gathered around the Angulana police station today (13th of August) as the news spread of two schoolboys killed due to police assault. The bodies of the two boys, Dinesh Tha...

ASIA: Open letter to the UN General Assembly regarding the 12th session of the Human Rights Council 

To: The Member States of the UN General Assembly Your Excellency, As the Human Rights Council prepares for its 12th regular session, the first session with the new members elected in May 2009, we writ...

INDIA: Encounter killing and custodial torture, a disgrace for the nation 

India will celebrate its 62nd year of independence tomorrow. While politicians and national leaders celebrate the Independence Day, delivering speeches and attending dinners, they will have to struggl...

PAKISTAN: Gojra and Pakistan’s identity 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Ms. Sherry Rehman, former federal minister of information, Pakistan. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ———...

SRI LANKA: When law becomes comic – Part Six 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Sri Lanka Guardian. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian forw...

PAKISTAN: A Norwegian citizen and Baloch activist is missing after his suspected abduction by Pakistan state agents

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a Norwegian citizen and political activist of Iranian nationality has been forcefully abducted from a bus between Balochistan ...

INDIA: Manipur state police officers must be investigated for two extrajudicial killings and the shooting of five bystanders

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a team of Manipur Police Commandos (MPC) shot a pregnant woman dead in front of her young son, allegedly by accid...

PAKISTAN: A human rights activist faces terrorism charges for publicising the murder of Christians, while the mullahs who encouraged the violence remain free

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an activist working for the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and the Labour Party of Pakistan, has been...

PAKISTAN: Serious concerns over mass graves, extrajudicial killings, IDPs’ plight in Swat; HRCP 

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