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Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that as people around the world gathered to observe the UN day in support of torture victims, Inter-Service Intelligen...

About a hundred criminals have been shot dead either in gun battles with the police or in mysterious circumstances like trying to attack police officers, even when handcuffed. This was revealed in an ...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Madadgaar Helpline, Karachi – PAKISTAN. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement...

A BRIEF REPORT Human Rights Alert (HRA) and the Department of Clinical Psychology and the Psychiatry, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) observed the UN International Day in on 26 June 2009...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-150-2009 June 26, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: Media’s ignorance is suicidal The world today observes the International Day in Su...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-149-2009 June 26, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Authorities complicit in widespread torture The International Day in Support of Victim...

FOR PUBLICATION AHRC-ART-032-2009 June 26, 2009 An Article on the menace of torture in Pakistan by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: The real need to make torture a heinous crime under Pakis...

The Anti-Torture Movement with the collaboration of Asian Human Rights Commission is holding  a seminar on the UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims            You are cordiall...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), a human rights organisa...

(Hong Kong, June 25, 2009) Mr. Muzibur Rahman is a businessman who farms shrimp in Pakigachha in the Khulna district of Bangladesh, but on January 23, 2007 he was arrested and tortured by army officer...

On 2 February 2009, India’s electronic media aired a short video displaying the shocking brutality practiced by the country’s law enforcement agencies. The video showed eight-year-old Koma...

(Hong Kong, June 23, 2009) With the practice of torture rampant across Asia, it remains one of the most serious obstacles to social health. To battle this injustice, the Asian Human Rights Commission ...

From 1971 until the defeat of the LTTE there has been a continuous period of violence where both rebel groups and the state engaged in an attempt to outdo each other in brutality. One of the consequen...

The practice of torture is endemic in Asia, and the region’s governments show no political will to eliminate it. In fact, states treat torture as a necessary aspect of social control, directly or ind...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-143-2009 June 23, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the Occasion of the International Day against Torture, 26 June 2009 BANGLADESH: Bangladesh&#...

Torture in custody is a very common phenomenon in Pakistan because of the rouged legal system and impotent rule of law. The laws of the land are silent on the issue of torture by the law enforcement a...

[RE: AHRC-HAU-003-2009: UPDATE (India): Two children suffer from malnutrition in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh] Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated informa...

Basil Fernando (This article appeared as the lead article in the Lanka Guardian on June 23, 2009 – Editor). “Instead the constitution needs to be amended as has been agreed by all political parties ...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Human Rights Alert (HRA), a human rights organisation based in Imphal, Manipur, Ind...

FIAN demands profound changes to address the dramatic increase of hunger Rome/Heidelberg (22.June.2009) – FIAN, the international Human Rights organization for the Right to Food, calls for profo...