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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you about the case of two women from Surkhet district in Nepal who were raped by the two Nepal Armed Force security offi...
On September 29, four members of a poor peasant Dalit (non-caste Hindu) family in Khairlanji village of Bhandara, in the northeast of the state of Maharashtra, were brutally killed in planned mob viol...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement issued by Justice Peace Human Development Human Rights Secretariat (SETIK) on the current situat...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the forced abduction of a man from Ranala, Sri Lanka in a notorious white van incident on 23 August 2006. The fami...
SRI LANKA: arbitrary arrest and detention; torture; abuse of police power; collapse of the rule of law; forced disappearances ——————————R...
[NOTICE: To facilitate your intervention of the urgent appeals issued by the AHRC, we have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal...
BANGLADESH: Arbitrary arrest; torture; fabricated charge; detention; deprivation of medical treatment; collapse of rule of law ——————————...
In September 2005 the Asian Human Rights Commission and Varanasi-based partner the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) organised a public hearing on hunger in the east of Uttar ...
RE: UP-196-2006: BANGLADESH: Government’s failure to act has put life of attempted rape victim into great danger; UP-187-2006: BANGLADESH: Repeated police threats to the victim of an attempted r...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partners The Peoples’ vigilance committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) and Benaras Mahila Mazdoor Sangatahn in...
The abduction of yet another Tamil businessman on December 11, in Kotahena by an unidentified group was reported in Lankanet. The victim is said to be Chabamale Muttu Folton (42) and he was abducted...
During year 2006 there has been no relief in Human rights violations. On the contrary, as in previous years cases such as torture, disappearances and violence against women has increased. The govern...
[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 Indian autho...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) received information from its partner organisation, Action Committee for Civic Problems (ACCP), regarding the disappearance of two political part...
More than 70% of the Indians are being left behind and ignored in India, while the government is lauding the country’s developed status. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has noted throug...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is calling for your urgent intervention to provide immediate protection to a witness of a custodial death case, who is receiving death threats in...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission(AHRC) has received information that 13-year-old Lahiru Nalaka, a student of the Sri Pada Madya Maha School, Palabaddala, Ratnapura District, Sri Lanka, ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner MASUM regarding the brutal assault on peaceful peasants by the police while they were protesting ...
The most violent place in Asia at the moment is Sri Lanka, with the state not taking any serious steps to bring the situation under control. The state blames the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE...
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