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A judgment made by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka on Friday, September 15 has all but removed the country from the international human rights community. The court declared that neither United Nations ...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal that a corrupt policing system and an insensitive judiciary in In...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a rape victim is facing continuous threats from the alleged perpetrator due to deliberate inaction by the Paikgachha polic...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the alleged disappearance of three young men from their home in ongoing conflict area J...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information regarding the abduction of two lower caste women, a daughter and her mother, by the henchmen of the State Minist...

www.lankademocracy.org http://www.uthr.org/bulletins/bul41.htm University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna)Sri Lanka UTHR(J) Information Bulletin No. 41 Date of Release: 14th September  2006 The Wid...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that army Lieutenant General Rukmangat Katuwal was appointed as army Chief of Staff of Nepal on September 10, 2006, by Prime Minister Girija ...

In Sri Lanka a white van without a number plate is a symbol of terror and the disappearances that occurred in all parts of the country.  Commissions on Disappearances in the South during the last few...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that Mr. Uday Chakravarti, a journalist of the Bangla national daily newspaper The Sangbad, was beaten by a group of persons wo...

[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...

[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 and Ba...

The Asian Human Rights Commission welcomes the European Parliament Resolution on Sri Lanka which was distributed on Thursday, September 7, 2006.  The full text of the resolution is reproduced below: ...

The journal entry of the magistrate’s court of Muttur for September 4, 2006, regarding the case of the killings of the 17 aid workers in Muttur belonging to Action Contre La Faim reads as follow...

Dear friends, Accordingly to V. Pushpaleela, the wife of the deceased, on August 13, 2006, Sinnappan Abraham Kiragory together with several of his friends was arrested by the Eheliyagoda police on sus...

There is a saying in India that, “If a dog goes mad it can be chained; but what can be done if the chain goes mad?” Applied to law enforcement, criminals are the dog, the police are the ch...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have recently developed a new automatic letter-sending system. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Bangladesh authorities. We encourage you ...

PAKISTAN: Use of power; no respect for lower caste women; abduction of women; punishment for educating the low caste girl; no rule of law; impunity to perpetrators —————&...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal regarding the abduction of three fishermen from Khas Mahal Damush...

A Forwarded Open Letter to His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapaksa from the International Commission of Jurists Nicholas Howen Secretary-General INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS Commission inter...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you to express our deep concern over the continuing detention of Mr. Yengkokpam Langamba Meitei alias Thabi, the Publicity Secretary of the Threa...