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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an army officer of the rank of Captain was sent on a secret mission to Kashmir in 1979 and since then his whereabou...
Dear friends, Further to our earlier appeal, we would like to share some of the select photographs from concerned individuals in cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, among the hardest hit areas in n...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is sharing with you the contact and bank details of groups in the Philippines who accept donations in cash and relief goods to disaster victims i...
There was no reason to expect much from the report of the LLRC as this commission had no mandate to investigate and to file a report on the basis of investigations. It was a mere commission of gatheri...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) expresses its deepest condolences to the Filipino people in the cities of Cagayan de Oro, Iligan and nearby areas where over 600 people died and hundreds of ot...
The sentence and judgment of the Kuybyshev district court in Saint Petersburg, convicting human rights activist, Mr Filipp Kostenko, for 15 days imprisonment, once again proves the fact that despite t...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) welcomes the commencement of impeachment proceedings on the Philippines’ Chief Justice Renato Corona. We view this as a constitutional process that prote...
[RE: AHRC-HAC-101-2011: India: Government’s failure to ensure food and health security led to death of widow] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Director General of the Inter Services Intelligence Agency, the country’s foremost intelligence agency, h...
Mr. Chia Thye Poh, a recipient of this year’s LLG Spiritual Award, will be going to receive the award which will take place on Sunday 18 December 2011 at 10am at the Confucian Chinese Independen...
There is no doubt that security to life and property is a fundamental right of every Indian. It is equally the duty of the state to protect it. The safety of a nation is directly proportionate to the ...
The family of Mohamed Sali Mohamed Niyas has written to human rights organisations complaining that there are no genuine investigations into his abduction and murder and also complaining that the fami...
On December 10 the Asian Human Rights Commission published its 2011 annual report in which it expressed concern that in 2011 the most pressing issues relating to the rights of conflict victims remaine...
In the case of the murder of the brother of a teenage pregnant girl, the Peshawar High Court Khyber Pakhtunkha province took a Suo Motu notice and directed the provincial home secretary and the Provin...
1. The families of conflict victims have been struggling for justice and truth for incidents of human rights violations committed during the armed conflict. Their organisations and the human rights co...
The citation read at the NIA presentation recognizing the unyielding integrity, personal commitment and courage of J C Weliamuna, former Executive Director – TISL & Director – Transparency Int...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of yet another union protester on 15 October 2011, following a shooting injury on October 10. The si...
Thousands of people have reportedly fled in terror from a large area in Paniai, West Papua as a massive combined Police and military offensive attacked villages on December 13, attempting to break arm...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a woman named Ms. Anthony Chandra, who is mother of three minor aged girls of below 11 years of age, has been ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information a regarding a twenty-eight-years old man’s body was dumped in a river by the Chunnakan police on 26 November 2011....
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