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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Navsarjan, a human rights organisation based in Gujarat, concerning the case of a rape victim, who has been repeate...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that prosecutors have pleaded with the court to imposed four to five years of imprisonment on two human rights activists for organis...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Food First Information and Action Network Nepal (FIAN Nepal) that the farmers failed to cultivate the seed subs...

The latest news by the WikiLeaks claims that India has systematically used torture to extract confessions and has allowed its armed forces to resort to brutal human rights abuses like extrajudicial ex...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement released by the State Enterprises Workers’ Relations Confederation (SERC), the Human Rights an...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the disappearance of a human rights defender and Homeopathic doctor by profession from his private clinic by s...

Sri Lankans of all faiths came together in Kandy, Nawalapitiya and Kundasale to sign petitions for the pardoning of Rizana Nafeek, the young Sri Lankan Muslim girl now in a Saudi Jail, condemned to de...

The simmering debate between three senior judges in India, involving the suspect in a criminal case and a former Union Minister from Tamilnadu state, Mr. A. Raja, and his alleged attempt to influence ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received details of a case of a man who disappeared after a dispute with a government official in the east of the country. Although the case ...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Pakistan Institute of Labour and Research (PILER). Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Stat...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned about the possible implications of President Benigno Aquino III’s order of December 10, 2010 to the Department of Justice (DoJ) instr...

According to a media report, the human rights defender monk, U Nemainda, who had been suffered from a curable skin disease for over a month died in the Mawlemyaing prison on December 8. His death is b...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) appreciates the effort taken by the Home Minister of India in undertaking a visit to Manipur. Manipur is one of the states in India with a poor human rights re...

The misuse of the blasphemy laws is not restricted only with the fundamentalist Muslim groups or leaders but is being misused by multinational pharmaceutical companies as well. They take advantage of ...

Over six-and-a-half years after police abducted and presumably killed human rights lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit, no one has yet been punished. The one police officer among five accused who was found gu...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Bahrain Human Rights Monitor. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Bahrain Human ...

Prayers were held in three Mosques in Galle for saving the life of Rizana Nafeek. Those who attended the prayers also signed a petition addressed to the King of Saudi Arabia for her pardon. A Campaign...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from Baloch Human Rights Council (UK). Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ——-...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) welcomes with reservations President Benigno Aquino III’s order to withdraw the charges against 43 health workers, collectively known as ‘Morong 43...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from The Huffington Post, written by Rebecca Buckwalterpoza. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An arti...