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(Hong Kong, May 27, 2011) Societies are silenced by the use of violence by the state. This has gone on for centuries in many countries. Such silencing ended in North America and Western Europe by th...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the critical health condition of Mr. Thir Nath Sharma, who was severely tortured during the conflict ten yea...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned that the witnesses and the family of torture victim, Jhon Paul Nerio, have either been offered bribes or are being intimida...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the bodies of six disappeared persons have been found in different areas of Balochistan. The bodies had bullet wo...
An article from the Women’s UN Report Network forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Acid attacks — women and girls — PowerPoint Dear friends, The Asian Human Right...
A Press Release from Lawyers for Democracy forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) Press Statement- Lawyers for Democracy The war in the North and East has come to an end. Due to the bla...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an In-Service English Teacher Advisor, Mr. Ewaduge Sisira Chandra of Ury Estate, Office Road, Thalgahathenna in B...
We reproduce below a letter written to the Chairperson of the NHRC by the Asian Human Rights Commission complaining about their failure to investigate the complaint relating to the attack on FMA Razza...
The Asian Human Rights Commission this morning issued two urgent statements of extreme concern for the situation of human rights defenders in Bangladesh, and in particular over the disappearance of a ...
An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission SOME GOUGE OUT THE EYES OF OTHERS Basil Fernando Cry, Tagore, cry. Your nation knows you not. Yes, they have cerem...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian, written by Basil Fernando. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article f...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists to ...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following joint statement from Human Rights Now and FORUM-ASIA. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Joint Statement from...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the 17-year-old daughter of Mr. Mohamed Niyasdeen of No. 439 Peradeniya Road Kandy has gone missing. Mr. Niyasdee...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission is shocked to learn that Forest Department officials brutally kicked five-month pregnant Seema Adhikari as she opposed their illegal arrest of her hus...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by the Home Minister’s statement on Friday that his office is planning to withdraw cases filed against Maoist cadres from the time of...
The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from the family of Mr. Dipal Barua, a human rights activist that he has been missing since yesterday morning, May 24, 2011. He was last seen ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a human rights defender, who belongs to the Kohli group, a scheduled caste Hindu, was booked in a murder case whe...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Kashmir National Party, Azad Kashmir Chapter. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong &...
Dear friends, After the Manokwari District Police in West Papua arrested peaceful protesters following a flag raising event on 14 December, 2010, seven persons were charged with rebellion. The detai...
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