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New Government Should Investigate Past Abuses and Prosecute Perpetrators (Kathmandu: September 10, 2008) – The new Maoist-led government of Nepal should investigate and prosecute those responsible fo...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received from the Advocacy Forum yet another torture case allegedly committed by the Parbat district police officers on 15 July 2008. The vic...

(Hong Kong, July 25, 2008)  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) supports a petition seeking the suspension of a levy, not only for new but for existing contracts of Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDH...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a young man whom five policemen severely tortured while in their custody nearly two months ago has continue to suffer poor...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from the Jagaran Media Center (JMC), a local media group fighting against caste discrimination, regarding a recent case of cast...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the constant, serious threats and attacks on women rights activists who have been working for justice for the deceased Ms...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the police allegedly ordered parents to pay a bribe of 150000 riels (US$37.5) each if their sons were not to be arrested after t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) was informed by Advocacy Forum- Nepal of the alleged brutal torture of three girls by the officers from the District Police Office, Surkhet, Nepa...

(June 26 is observed every year as the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.) Nepal successfully held the Constituent Assembly (CA) election on April 10th, 2008 and was de...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned with the deliberate negligence of the Kanchanpur district police in the murder of a woman, who was allegedly murdered by her ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) congratulates the people of Nepal on its transition into a Secular, Federal Democratic Republic. The declaration made on 28 May 2008 by the Constituent Assembl...

We wish to share with you the following speech of Mr. Muneer Malik, delivered on his acceptance of the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights. He received the human rights award on May 18, 2008 on the occasio...

Your Excellency, We, the undersigned 84 non-governmental organisations working on human rights in Asia, write to urge that your government not vote for Sri Lanka for membership in the United Nations H...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from Amnesty International to the Secretary General of ASEAN. Asian Human Rights Commission Ho...

The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to present the speech given by Mr. John J. Clancey, Chairperson of the Asian Human Rights Commission at the Awards Ceremony for the Asian Human Rights Defender...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you regarding the illegal house search of a human rights defender Mr. Sushil Kumar Lakhe by the police in Banke district on 11 May ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to bring your notice the cases of abduction and a serious assault which has not yet been adequately investigated and in which no perpetrat...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-ANM-003-2008 May 14, 2008 An Announcement by the Asian Human Rights Commission ASIA: Muneer Malik and Aitzaz Ahsan accept the AHRC’s Human Rights Defender Award The As...

An All Women Silent Appeal March will be carried out today starting from Lainchour proceeding through Thamel areas. The women dressed in black and white with black armband around their arms, mask ove...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned by the torture of four young men by the Udayapur district police during their illegal detention in March 2008. They all have been ch...