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(A comment on the Indian Supreme Court judgement on the Best Bakery Case) –Basil Fernando, May 2007 …[B]ullshitters, although they represent themselves as being engaged simply in conveying...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from NGO Advocacy Forum Nepal that the District Police Office (DPO) and the District Administration Office (DAO) in Bank...

(Hong Kong, May 2, 2007) Two persons fighting for human rights in different parts of India were awarded a prestigious regional human rights prize on Monday. The 2007 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights wen...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by a reliable source of four cases relating to intimidation and assaults allegedly committed by the Maoists. Details of each ca...

The Kathmandu Post Chronicling the truth http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?nid=106686 By MANJUSHREE THAPA The essay form–now fancifully called literary nonfiction or creative nonfictionÂ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partner Advocacy Forum in Nepal that seven persons, including five minors, were arbitrarily arrested without wa...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that Advocacy Forum, one of the leading human rights organizations in Nepal providing legal aid services to detainees, now...

(This is the third in a series of statements on the challenges facing democracy, rule of law and human rights in Nepal at present. The first and second statements appeared on March 31 and April 2, ...

(This is the second in a series of statements on the challenges facing democracy, rule of law and human rights in Nepal at present. The first statement, NEPAL: The need for a comprehensive appeared ...

(This is the first in a series of statements on the challenges facing democracy, rule of law and human rights in Nepal at present.) The pulse of an uprising that brought down the centuries-old monarch...

The following is a joint statement by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia), Asian Legal Resource Centre, and International NGO Forum on Indonesia Development (INFID) at the 4t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged torture and illegal detention of two civilians namely Mr. Jonson Gurung and Mr. Raju Rai by the police...

The following is a joint statement by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia), Asian Legal Resource Centre, International NGO Forum on Indonesia Development (INFID), and Pax Roma...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about alleged torture and death threats of Mr. Puradi Prasad Pandey of Kalikot district, Nepal, from December 2006 to th...

FORUM-ASIA has joined with the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, Amnesty International (AI), the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT), the Centre on Housing Rights and ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that Advocacy Forum, one of the leading human rights organizations in Nepal providing legal aid services to detainees, has been refus...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Mr. Surendra Thapa was severely beaten up by senior police officers of the District Police Office (DPO), Surkhet di...

The following was initially delivered as a talk given by Mr. John J. Clancey, Chairperson of the Asian Human Rights Commission to the priests of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong on January 4, 2007 Wh...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Advocacy Forum, a local human rights organization in Nepal, of the alleged rape of a mentally deficient woman by an army...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Cambodian aut...