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The Kerala High Court Advocates’ Association, in an extraordinary general body meeting held yesterday, resolved to request the Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India to undertake an in...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a complainant of a bribery case (No.: 50600/01 in the Chief Magistrate’s Court of Colombo), received death th...
Devarathnam Yogendra ( 28 ) is the complainant in a bribery case against IP Wijesuriya of the Hatton Police Station, who has been indicted on a charge of obtaining bribes. This charge has been filed o...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from a campaign website, Protect Human Rights Defenders! Protect Cocoy Tulawie! Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ——R...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Roshni Help Line. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ———R...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Networking for Rights. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ———...
(Hong Kong, January 18, 2011) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) will send international and domestic observers to attend the reading of the verdict on January 21 in the appeal case concerning t...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police illegally arrested a female labour rights activist named Ms. ...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Supreme Court Commissioners on the question of the Right to Food in India concerning the homeless persons living in the nationa...
A YouTube presentation recently found on the internet shows Mumtaz Quadri, the assassin of the slain governor, Salman Taseer, singing in the custody of the police during his interrogation. The officer...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from Citizens For Democracy to Chief Justice of Supreme Court Of Pakistan. Please support thei...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned of another case of 12 persons in Burma given long jail sentences for alleged anti-government activities. In fact, the state prosecuti...
The act of solidarity by Egyptian Muslims towards Egyptian Copts is a glowing example for countries and communities around the world. And it must be particularly noted that Pakistan could be one of th...
Sofie Rordam Sri Lankan citizens are protected against torture and arbitrary arrest in sections 11, 12 and 13 of the Constitution of Sri Lanka. In addition Sri Lanka has ratified the United Nations Co...
The parents of Justice Javed Iqbal, a judge of the Supreme Court were killed on Tuesday night in a well guarded area of Lahore. Justice Javed Iqbal is heading a three-member bench which is hearing the...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from MINBYUN-Lawyers for a Democratic Society, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ———...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to draw your attention to the disappearance of a civil servant since 5 November 2010 from Rajpur, Dipayal, Doti District. Two months on, t...
Basil Fernando Two years have passed since one of the most infamous assassinations in Sri Lanka in recent times. The editor of the Sunday Leader and an internationally known journalist, Lasantha Wickr...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Human R...
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza In times of rapid technological development and social shifts, individuals and communities often experience social dislocation. They struggle to redefine–and reinforce...
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