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[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, we also encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to the Sri Lanka...

Asia is littered with countries where policies of abducting and “disappearing” people have had terrible consequences. Among them are Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Thailand, the Philip...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 29, 2006 AS-200-2006 Closing statement of the 6th Human Rights Folk School of the Asian Human Rights Commission ASIA: Still a long way to go to rule of law & human rig...

Dear friends, The case against Mahesh Ranaweera (12) was finally concluded 17 August 2006 at the Panwila Magistrates Court. Mahesh had been illegally arrested and detained by the Wattwgama police afte...

On 27 August 2006 it was reported that fighter jets and helicopters attacked the south western province of Balochistan, killing some 37 government opponents, including a former governor and chief mini...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning the harassment of a bus driver by members of the police, which illustrates the breakdown of the rule of law, ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Human Rights Alert (HRA), a local human rights organization based in Manipur that two human rights activists were illegally arres...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding a statement from an independent group of Catholic priests regarding the critical situation in the Jaffna conflict area in Sri Lanka...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on August 24 issued yet another appeal about further threats and violations of fundamental rights by the Border Security Force (BSF) stationed along India̵...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 24, 2006 AS-196-2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission  BANGLADESH: Lawless law-enforcement & the parody of judiciary The Asian Human Rights Commission...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, that a torture victim and her family have been threatened by an intel...

I write on behalf of Families of the Disappeared. I have seen in the Daily Mirror, Justice Page on August 19, 2006, a letter written by you to the editors of that paper inquiring from them about a pho...

[RE: UA-141-2004: SRI LANKA: A man arbitrarily assaulted by the SI of the Horana Police Station without any reason and UP-051-2006: SRI LANKA: Justice continues to evade victim one and a half years af...

The statement: Government and Tamil Tigers Must Respect International Humanitarian Law (Colombo, August 21, 2006) – The Sri Lankan government and the armed opposition Liberation Tigers of Tamil ...

The statement: INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS 17 August 2006 Sri : ICJ calls on Government and LTTE to publicly state commitment to international humanitarian law The International Commission of ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you today to call for greater UN intervention to address the atrocious situation of human rights and concomitant corruption, failed governance an...

[RE: UA-247-2006: SRI LANKA: Man brutally tortured by the Wanduramba Police Station requires months of hospitalisation and UP-146-2006: SRI LANKA: Update on torture victim Mr. Premalal] ——...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by its partner in Nepal, Advocacy Forum, about further developments to the case of 33-year old Mr. Teksu Rai, a permanent resid...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, regarding yet another incident of brutality and torture committed by ...

While the call for a peaceful resolution of the Sri Lankan conflict has arisen from high level sources such as the Secretary General of the United Nations and even the Pope, these make hardly any diff...