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By Salman Ali The Convention on the Rights of the Child and many of the global education goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, aim at ensuring the right to quality education, which, unfor...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), has received information concerning Mrs. A. Rohini Aththanayaka (37), No: 131, Akkara Eighty Village, Sorabora Colony, Mahiyanganaya, Polonnaruw...
Avinash Pandey Gopikrishna Durgaprasad, a 25-year-old gainfully employed young man, committed suicide a few days ago in Pune, Maharashtra. With Maharashtra seeing thousands of suicides every year, a...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward an appeal from Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz-A (MQM-A). For more information, please contact: Dr. Meer Alam Mari, Chairman, Jeay Sin...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from MASUM, its partner organization in West Bengal, regarding the alleged torture of a poor farmer by the Borde...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from Nervazhi, our partner organization in Kerala, regarding the abusive behaviour of the police towards a woman...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding Mr. Edirisinghe Mudiyanselage Samitha Lakmal (18), of No: 65/11, Deewaragama, Kantale in the Trincomalee Distr...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) strongly condemns the recent spate of attacks on the Hazara community in Balochistan province. In the most recent incident, four family members belonging to th...
DIG Lalith A Jayasinghe was arrested and is now being remanded for harbouring an offender and aiding the escape of the chief suspect Swiss Kumar, for the gang rape and the murder of 18 year old Sivalo...
A Statement from ODHIKAR on the detention of Detention of Mr. Adilur Rahman Khan at KLIA, Malaysia forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission At approximately 11:00 pm (Bangladesh time), on 19 Jul...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning Mrs. P K Deepika Priyangika (26), of Matele District. She was a victim of maternal death due to the gross med...
Dear Friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the gang rape of a young woman. The rape was recorded and she was blackmailed into marriage. The perpet...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a girl (11) of Yaku Arun village development committee (VDC) 5 in Bhojpur District was raped in December 2016. Whil...
An interview with J.C. Weliamuna, President’s Counsel, Eisenhower Fellow, former Member of the Transparency International Global Board, and Constitutional Law practitioner in Supreme Court for over ...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding Mr. Yogarasa Dinesh (24) of Nelliady, Point Pedro in Jaffna District. Two police officers attached to the Point Pedro...
India’s apex court passed a historic judgment on July14, reiterating the primacy of rule of law and that there can be no justification to bypass it. In the case of Extrajudicial Execution Victim Fam...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding Mr. Kariyawasam Wickramarachchilage Milan Saman Wickramasinghe (21) permanent resident of Kantale Police Divis...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the abduction of a minor from the Bhutto family home. Previously, two brothers from this family were a...
A Joint Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission, the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances and Odhikar, on the Day of International Criminal Justice Hong Kong/Dhaka/Manila; 17 Jul...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received reliable information regarding death threats aimed at the human rights activist, Mr. Sudesh Nandimal Silva who is fighting for the rights o...
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