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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police officers attached to the Panwila Police Station have illegally arrested, detained and tortured an innocent c...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 17 year old school going child was illegally arrested by the police officers attached to the Anamaduwa Police Sta...

The comparison between Hong Kong and Sri Lanka Rasika Sanjeewa Weerawickrama LLB (SL), LLM (HK) It was reported that around 192 people have died from dengue fever in the first seven and a half months ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission states that words are inadequate to express the magnitude of the folly contained in the suggested amendments to the Constitution of Sri Lanka by the Sri Lankan govern...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ——&...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a German philanthropist staying in Sri Lanka has been illegally arrested and detained by the officers attached to t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding rape and abuse of a 16 year-old domestic worker in Kathmandu on 18 July 2010 by her employers. Instead of resc...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the MaximsNewsNetwork. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ———...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from credible sources in Jammu and Kashmir concerning the arbitrary shooting of civilians by the security forces station...

(Hong Kong, August 27, 2010) The Asian Legal Resource Centre on Wednesday submitted a special dossier to a group of United Nations human rights experts on recent cases of extreme, prolonged torture by...

Over 12,000 cases are pending before the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) as there are no ‘commissioners’ to order inquiries into them, according to a report published in Daily...

Basil Fernando Sri Lanka has turned out to be a land of many quarrels but no debates. Often quarrels turns into violence, sometimes murder and even worst. And the violence itself leads to new quarrels...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from Ms.Pornpen Khongkachonkiet, Coordinator of Cross Culture Foundation (CrCF). Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ——...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Pakistan Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, has refused the renewal of passports to a Pakistani family allegedly on ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the custodial death of 16-year-old Dharmendra Barai on 4 July, which is suspected to have been caused ...

On the 25th August, the Supreme Court discharged the editor of the Lanka Irida newspaper, Chandana Sirimalwatte from charges of contempt of court. Earlier he had been given notice of the issue of a ru...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Justice and Peace Foundation (WGJP) calling for a seminar on the International Day ...

A Joint Open Letter to the Executive Board of the UNESCO from a group of 96 organisations world-wide UNESCO  Executive Board  7, place de Fontenoy  75732 Paris 07 SP  France  Tel: +33 (0) 1456810...

In July of this year a web newspaper, the Sri Lanka Guardian reported an alleged case of sexual abuse by an appeal court judge. Last weekend, Lakbima reported that the CID has submitted its report of ...

A woman domestic worker in Saudi Arabia nailed 24 times Mrs. L.T. Ariyawathi (49), a mother of three has returned from Saudi Arabia after less than five months of employment. Within a short time of he...