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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-253-2009 December 18, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SOUTH KOREA: Seoul city fails to respect and protect the right to adequate housing leading a ...

Three young men from the Pakistani part of Kashmir, abducted by an army Lieutenant Colonel and officials of Frontier Corp were released by their captives after the warning that they should not reveal ...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN) International. Asian Human Rights ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) continues to receive reports of police torture in Indonesia, the latest of which involves the illegal arrest and torture of a young woman by Jaka...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that Mahiyangane police officers witnessed the severe beating of a man by a priest and refused to intervene. The act constitutes to...

Joker’ pioneers the news format in local radio Before writing for community newspapers and national dailies in the recent years, forty-six-year-old Ian ‘Joker’ Subang was a veteran broadc...

Manipur, a state in the northeast of India is in national news since the past two decades. The state remains in news for all the wrong reasons. Stories from Manipur are not that of the miraculous econ...

The AHRC is publishing its 2009 annual human rights report on Sri Lanka. A pre-publication version of the report can be downloaded at: http://material.ahrchk.net/hrreport/2009/AHRC-SPR-009-2009-Sri-L...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Reporters Without Borders. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ——&#...

Basnet is repatriated by the UN from his posting in Chad as the UN is informed about a pending arrest warrant against the officer from a court in Nepal. While the government of Nepal is expected to ar...

(Hong Kong, December 11, 2009) The Muslim-Christian Community of Hong Kong (MCC-HK) is once more getting together at Chater Road on Sunday, December 13, 2009, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon. The MCC-HK ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information that Baduraliya Police have illegally arrested and detained a rubber tapper, and fabricated charges against him by...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information that Galle police have refused to register a mother’s complaint about suspicions that her 24-year-old daught...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that four young men have been illegally arrested, detained and tortured by Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officials because of a...

The AHRC is publishing its 2009 annual human rights report on India. A pre-publication version of the report can be downloaded at: http://material.ahrchk.net/hrreport/2009/AHRC-SPR-003-2009-India-HRR...

On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day 2009, the AHRC has published its annual report on the situation of human rights in Indonesia. The report highlights the problem of ongoing torture...

The transition of Nepal from an absolute monarchy to a federal, democratic republic has claimed the lives of at least a few thousand persons. Several hundred women and men lost their life by participa...

The AHRC is publishing its 2009 annual human rights report on Bangladesh. A pre-publication version of the report can be downloaded at: http://material.ahrchk.net/hrreport/2009/AHRC-SPR-001-2009-Bang...

After the country’s democracy was restored 23 years ago, the days where the police and military were ruling over the civilian authority were deeply felt again, most notably by the citizens of Ma...

The AHRC will soon publish an annual report on Pakistan for 2009. A prepublication report of the version can be down loaded at: http://material.ahrchk.net/hrreport/2009/AHRC-SPR-006-2009-Pakistan-HRR...