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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) condemns the violent attacks unleashed in Mumbai by an underground armed group calling itself the Deccan Mujahudeen. As reports come in, an estimated 107 innoc...
In the No Fact Zone of Sri Lanka flowers are blooming, the country is flowing with milk and honey and the old paradise still remains the old paradise. Internally displaced people are all smiling and e...
By IFTIKHAR MUHAMMAD CHAUDHRY Chief Justice of Pakistan http://www.JusticeForum.info New York, NY, USA, 17 November 2008 (InformPress.com) – It is a pleasure and an honour for me to be addressin...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Embargoed to 18.30 GMT 19 November 2008 The Sri Lankan government must immediately end its policy of blocking humanitarian aid needed to reach an estimated 300,000 ...
We assembled jurists, lawyers and legal academics from throughout Asia gathered in Hong Kong on 17-21 November 2008 for the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of Law express...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is informed by the Human Rights Alert (HRA) about the murder of a journalist in Manipur, India. It is reported that the scribe, Mr. Konsam Rish...
(New York, November 24, 2008) The Sri Lankan government should take immediate steps to address the deteriorating human rights situation in the country’s Eastern Province, where there has been...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following speech by Mr. Aitzaz Ahsan. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A speech by Mr. Aitzaz Ahsan forwarded by the As...
We assembled jurists, lawyers and legal academics from throughout Asia gathered in Hong Kong on 17-21 November 2008 for the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of Law note wi...
FOR PUBLICATION AHRC-ART-036-2008 November 24, 2008 A Resolution by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Resolution of the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of L...
J.S. Tissainayagam, senior journalist who is on trial before the High Court has been moved from the remand prison to the magazine prison in Colombo on November 18. No reasons have been given for this ...
This week a website maintained by the Ministry of Defence published a report in which they referred to some lawyers as traitors as they appeared for alleged LTTE suspects by filing fundamental rights ...
This review is submitted to contribute to the Special Rapporteur on Tortures survey of the implementation of recommendations made after his . 1 This review focuses on progress made in Nepal durin...
In June 2006 a five member bench of Supreme Court judges ordered police in Kashmore, Sindh province to arrest a PPP leader and national assembly member, Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, for involvement in San...
A special call to all human rights organisations and especially womens organisations to intervene in a scandalous incident where a 13-year-old girl has been subjected to sexual abuse and confinement...
Mr. D.W.C. Mohotti, an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, (Membership Number of the Bar Association M. 859) by way of an affidavit has narrated the harassment that he has suffered whil...
Data of Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) shows that 64 human rights defenders were at risk from state and non-state actors during the period of 16 July to 16 October. It was found that rights of...
Surangi Sandamali Padmini Peiris is the wife of Sugath Nishanta Fernando who was assassinated on September 20 in broad daylight by two unidentified gunmen who the family believes were working on the i...
Dear friends, After closely following the case of Razzak and Shankar (please see further: AHRC-UAU-065-2008 and AHRC-UAU-067-2008), the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that R...
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