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The Asian Human Rights Commission strongly supports the call for a human rights monitoring mission by the United Nations as a measure to resuscitate the severely damaged criminal investigation capacit...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a man, Morshed Rana, died in police custody following his arrest on false charges on 28 October 2007. The police tried ...

The appeal case of Rizana Nafeek is continuing to be heard in the Appellate Court in Saudi Arabia. Rizana Nafeek, who was 17 years old at the time when she was accused of murdering a baby of four mont...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to provide you the update regarding the case of Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi and the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR). ...

The year 2007 was marked by constitutional and judicial crises; the President as the military leader used the state power against the judiciary, the Constitution of the country, the legal fraternity a...

The year 2007 will be remembered as a year in which brought out increasingly belligerent responses from ruling elites across Asia. It is certain that throughout the region more and more people are res...

A phantom limb is the sensation that an amputated or missing limb is still attached to the body and is moving appropriately with other body parts. The pronouncement of the Sri Lankan government that i...

(Hong Kong, December 5, 2007) Baseer Naveed, senior researcher for South Asia for the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), is the recipient of the 2007 Housing Rights Defender Award presented annuall...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights [PVCHR] in Uttar Pradesh that their field activist Mr. Manoj...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) regarding the recent threats to Dr. Lenin Raghuvansh...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that further list of extrajudicial killings and disappearances for the month of November 2007 have been reported in Sri Lan...

INDIA: Failure of government health system; non-functional Public Distribution System; right to food; caste discrimination; corruption —————————&#...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from The Dutch Lawyers for Lawyers and Lawyers Rights Watch Canada Asian Human Rights Commissi...

The attack on the printing press of the Sunday Leader as well as the very manner in which the attack was carried out, comes as no surprise to anyone who has observed the ease with which any form of vi...

Every move that General Musharraf has taken for the singular purpose of his own survival has plunged Pakistan into a greater state of lawlessness. Strangely, General Musharraf seems to believe that th...

[NOTICE: The AHRC has developed an automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. We encourage you to send your appeal letters via email, fax or post to those people. Fax numb...

INDIA: Government neglect; caste based discrimination; corruption; right to food; failing public health system ————————————̵...

National Peace Council of Sri Lanka 12/14 Purana Vihara Road Colombo 6 Tel:  2818344, 2854127, 2819064 Tel/Fax:2819064 E Mail:  npc@sltnet.lk Internet:  www.peace-srilanka.org 22.11.07 Media Rele...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information from MASUM, a local human rights organization in West Bengal, India, regarding the brutal attack by armed carder...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal arrest and detention of a man by Kalutara North police on 12 November 2007. He lodged a complaint ...