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The importance of the results of the United States election on this occasion is more a reflection of the overwhelming rejection of the way in which America has been run in the recent past, particularl...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has obtained information that Yosias Syet was found dead in his house on 17 October 2008. The autopsy confirmed that he had been murdered and i...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the OYO Papua Foundation that nine women have been subjected to ill-treatment after being labeled as ‘Surangg...

(Further to our statement of yesterday, October 28th we are forwarding the full text of the statement by the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other cruel, inhuman made on October 23rd at the 63rd Ses...

Though the concept of human rights was now universally accepted, Manfred Nowak, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, today warned that ill t...

Joint statements at the second substantive session of the PrepCom (6-17 October 2008) Objective 1, section B: Victims of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance Dear Madam Ch...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of Mr. Hartoyo who was tortured and sexually abused in January 2007 in Aceh. The Banda Aceh D...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of hundreds of people in the Dogiyai District in Papua, Indonesia, due to a cholera epidemic. Despit...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that eight human rights activists accused of disseminating pamphlets on the allegation of land expropriations were sente...

Impunity is extensive in Indonesia. The murder of a prominent human rights activist is one of many cases that has made this evident to the international community. The death of Munir Thalib and the ob...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the torture of villagers by the Wera Sector Police and the Bima Resort Police, in West Nusa Tenggara Province ...

(Hong Kong, July 25, 2008)  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) supports a petition seeking the suspension of a levy, not only for new but for existing contracts of Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDH...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the police allegedly ordered parents to pay a bribe of 150000 riels (US$37.5) each if their sons were not to be arrested after t...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-186-2008 July 7, 2008 A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and the Indonesian Community Legal Aid Institute (LBH Masyarakat) INDONESIA: Failure ...

Today, 26 June, is a historical day for all mankind. Today, everyone around the world is commemorating theInternational Day in Support of Victims of Torture. On this day, everyone is coming together t...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-172-2008 June 25, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the Occasion of the International Day against Torture INDONESIA: International review pointed ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern on the issuance of a decree banning a religious minority, Ahmadiyah, from spreading their religious practices by the gov...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of yet another attack on a peaceful gathering of groups advocating religious freedom by a group of Muslims in Jakarta on 1 June...

We wish to share with you the following speech of Mr. Muneer Malik, delivered on his acceptance of the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights. He received the human rights award on May 18, 2008 on the occasio...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a man has died in police custody following his arrest after he was falsely accused of stealing a palm oil nut on 26 Mar...