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Pakistan is a country where even Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the apex court, is not spared physical and mental torture by the country’s law enforcement agencies.  Mr. Iftekhar Choudhary, the...

Bangladesh has been a sitting member of the UN Human Rights Council since 9 May 2006, and has passed more than a year in the world’s top human rights forum. Before being elected to the Council Bangla...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation based in West Bengal regarding an incident where the elected representatives fro...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information about Benedict Rosery, a 25-year-old three wheeler driver who had been allegedly tortured at the Peradeniya poli...

On the International day for the elimination of torture the special consideration of the extremely harsh conditions prevailing in Sri Lanka relating to the observance of human rights needs to be stres...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Development & Cooperation written by Mr. Baseer Naveed, senior researcher of AHRC. The complete article can be found at http://w...

SNP legal Aid Committee with the collaboration of Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is holding a Seminar on “INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST TORTURE AND REHABILITATION OF TORTURE VICTIM” on 26th June 2...

The serious collapse of the rule of law in Sri Lanka is accompanied by the collapse of the policing system, the degeneration of the prosecuting system under the Attorney General’s Department and...

The adoption of on the President’s text is an important achievement. We thank Ambassador de Alba and congratulate him on his untiring efforts over the last year to bring the Council to this point. Wi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that Sindh police again allegedly threatened a gang-rape survivor to immediately leave the apartment where she a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner in Andhra Pradesh regarding the case of abduction and disappearance of two students. It is report...

The statements made by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India at the 5th United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions appeared as if the NHRC is confused about its own mandate. T...

June 17, 2007, was bad day for journalists in Pakistan as one was shot dead and another was arrested by the law enforcement agencies and has been missing since then. His whereabouts are not known and ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that three of alleged perpetrators of the severing of Mr. Hazoor Buksh Malik’s (24) penis, were arrested in ear...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation based in West Bengal, regarding the case of a couple who was assaulted and abuse...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2007 ALRC-OL-001-2007 An Open Letter to the UN Working Group on enforced and involuntary disappearances Mr. Santiago Corcuera Chairperson Working Group on enforced and i...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by its local partner in Nepal, the Advocacy Forum, of the alleged brutal attack on the villagers in Laxmipur Bagewa VDC, Dhanus...

(Note: We are reproducing the report published on June 14 2007 by the International Crisis Group. The Executive Summary and Recommendations follow below). ____________ *INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP R...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner based in Andhra Pradesh, India regarding the death of a person in mysterious circumstances and th...

Further to our previous public statement of 11 June 2007, we, the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) are concerned that the conduct of the President’s Commission of Inqui...