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On 23 October 2009, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights defenders, Ms. Margaret Sekaggya (Uganda), called on States in the Third Committee of the General Assembly to do away with laws that requ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about unnecessary delays in the investigation of a man’s death in custody, following his arrest for a fabricated...

Sir, In a brutal eviction drive, to uproot nearly 6000 slum dwellers in the vicinity of Eastern Bypass, Kolkata and demolishment of their 1200 shanties for a suggested ‘beautification’ and ‘develop...

Civil society in Orissa is going to hold a public hearing on food security on 21 November. It is organized by Right to Food Campaign Orissa, Focus Orissa, Malkanagiri, OREGS Watch, Water Rights Orissa...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that police officers allowed a lawyer, her mother and domestic helper to be beaten by a group armed with sticks. The women and thei...

E.M. Parvati died yesterday. Parvati was a resident of Belgachhia Bhagar, a municipal dumping ground of Howrah in West Bengal. The doctor who examined Parvati’s body certified that the cause of ...

Bangladesh’s Minister for Home Affairs Ms. Sahara Khatun has reportedly said that “no ‘crossfire’ killing [has] occurred since her party has assumed office” in January th...

November 17, 2009 Since three special laws have been enforced in the three Southern border provinces including the Martial Law Act B.E.2457 (1914) and the Emergency Decree on Government Administration...

Heidelberg, (17 November, 2009) – The human rights organization FIAN criticized the final declaration of the World Summit on Food Security as a document that presents no and promoting the right ...

Dear Mr. Supandji, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to urge you to conduct an investigation to follow up the recommendation of the National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM)....

(Hong Kong, November 17, 2009) Two Catholic Priests and a group of indigenous people from Mindoro Island have commenced a hunger strike of indefinite length in Manila to protest an impending mining op...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has just learned that the remains of two persons, believed to have been summarily executed by police officers, have been stolen from their grav...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-224-2009 November 16, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: Civil society demands “food security to all” On November 9 2009, a number ...

The Sri Lankan government today issued emergency regulations to be operative from midnight tonight (November 16, 2009) which makes the services relating to oil, electricity, harbor and water resources...

Your Excellency, We, the undersigned independent human rights and civil society organizations from diverse regions and societies around the world, respectfully urge your support for a United Nations G...

All aspects of corruption in rehabilitation to be inquired by Justice Jha Commission Corruption in payment of compensation to the ineligible, house plot allotment, livelihood grant to landless and bac...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Reporters Without Border. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Reporter Without B...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Right Commission (AHRC) continues to receive reports of violence perpetrated by police officers against peaceful demonstrators. Most recently police officers attacked a...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that police are pressuring a low-caste woman to withdraw a case against a group of people who accused her of being a witch, beat he...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that a trade union activist was abducted after making bail, following his support for a series of union protests. Since his a...