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Under the Constitution of Sri Lanka, the executive president has not been given the power to select members of any of the commissions established or supervised by the 17th Amendment. The power of sele...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by reports from local sources alleging that members of the armed forces indiscriminately opened fire on a crowd of three tho...

[RE: UA-75-2005: SRI LANKA: A woman’s baby is stillborn due to police torture; UP-75-2005: SRI LANKA: Police torturers who caused a woman’s loss of her unborn child must be brought to justice] ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learnt that the principal of St Mary’s School, Hambanthota has manipulated his authority to arbitrarily suspend pupils from school. Five sch...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of an appalling case of police brutality and torture of a man whom they accused of having stolen goods. When the man repeated t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the Chhatak police in Sunamganj district neglected to act on a complaint of a man’s disappearance, which may have re...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault of a 14-year-old boy by a local businessman, who forced the boy to work for him on 29 April 2006, ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged repeated rape of a 12-year-old girl by a traffic police constable in Dhaka between 7 and 15 April ...

AHRC-OL-013-2006 May 15, 2006      Open letter to the Attorney General The Hon. Mr. K. C. Kamalasabesan Attorney General Attorney General’s Department Colombo 12 Sri Lanka Fax: +94 11 2 436 ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner, People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), regarding the illegal arrest and detentio...

Dear friends, On 4 May 2006, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) informed our network about 18-year-old Samantha Perera, who was illegally arrested by the Bandaragama police, detained for four da...

[Re: HA-01-2006: PAKISTAN: City Government forces eviction leaving thousands homeless and without food in Karachi; UP-073-2006: PAKISTAN: Violence imminent over Lyari Expressway construction in Karach...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of an attack on an editor of a local newspaper in Sri Lanka, following his attempt to report on illegal construction in his are...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 11, 2006 AS-105-2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA: Human Rights Council a new forum to discuss Sri Lanka’s human rights record An a...

The new Human Rights Council was elected on May 9, 2006. According to the General Assembly Resolution of April 3, 2006,  When electing members of the Council, Member States shall take into account th...

[RE: UP-096-2006: BANGLADESH: Court orders supplementary investigation following disputed Judicial Probe Commission report; UP-083-2006: BANGLADESH: Police defy High Court order by continuing to make ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) and Aim, Lucknow regarding the acute situation of hunger ...

The electoral victory of Sri Lanka’s United National Party (UNP) in 1977 created what is now commonly known as ‘elective dictatorship’. This dictatorship was made permanent through t...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 10, 2006 AS-101-2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: Snail pace progress at the National Human Rights Commission the Commission must accept responsibi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has been informed that police assaulted a number of political activists and other demonstrators during a nationwide dawn-to-dusk strike and demonstratio...