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On the 2nd April, 2008 the High Court of Negombo acquitted all the accused in the torture case filed against them for severely torturing Gerald Perera. Ever since many human rights organisations have ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a local human rights organisation from West Bengal, India about the murder of a 14-year-old boy by the Borde...

Dear friends,  We wish to share with you the Concluding Observations issued by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights after its fortieth session. During the session the Committee re...

Dear friends, Greetings from the PVCHR and the EU-FNST-PWTN National Project on Prevention of Torture, Uttar Pradesh state The EU-FNST-Peoples’ Watch Tamil Nadu (PWTN) National Project of Preven...

The Supreme Court Bar Association of Bangladesh (SCBA) yesterday (April 24, 2008) endorsed a resolution to condemn the decision of the Supreme Court declaring that no court, including the Supreme Cour...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Bangladesh that a judge of a Special Tribunal for Women has ordered the detention of two persons in absence of a th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Guria, a local human rights organisation based in Uttar Pradesh, India, regarding the attempted kidnapping of two g...

The decision of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh made yesterday (April 23, 2008), to the effect that even the High Court, which consists of Supreme Court judges has no jurisdiction to entertain, or to ...

The hottest topic in Sri Lanka this week is the press statement given at a meeting by the International Independent Group of Imminent Persons (IIGEP), in which the chairperson, Justice P.N Bhagwati, a...

The Global Health Council on 22 April 2008 announced that Dr. Binayak Sen of Chhattisgarh, India is conferred with the 2008 Jonathan Mann Award for . The Global Health Council www.globalhealth.or...

The Supreme Court of India is an internationally acclaimed institution, known for its neutrality and authority. Though there are incidents that have provoked criticism — sometimes for good reaso...

A 27 year old Hindu worker, Mr. Jagdesh Kumar was killed by fellow Muslim workers on the charge of blasphemy in the presence of more than two dozen policemen including an officer. The police and facto...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) – New York School of Law. ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by another report from Nepal of the alleged brutal torture by the police. According to the information we have received, a ma...

In giving reasons to quit their role, the IIGEP stated that there is no political will on the part of the government to find out the truth about the alleged violations of human rights by agents of the...

Many newspapers reported a statement by a member of the opposition UNP made yesterday stating that during the last two months the Human Rights Commission (HRC) has received over 200 complaints of viol...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Navsarjan, a human rights organisation working on Dalit rights in Gujarat about the murder of a Dalit (lower caste ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that the Attorney General (AG) has, at the time of writing, failed to appeal the case of Gerald Perera even though there ar...

On January 23, 2008 the Board of Directors of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) announced that it was granting its 3rd Asian Human Rights Defender Award jointly to Mr. Muneer Malik, former Pres...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-097-2008 April 17, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Evolution of the falsifier’s role of the Attorney General’s Department AG...