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 including the appointment without delay of Constitutional Council members and NPC Commissioners The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) notes the commitments made on the 11th of November 2005 by th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the torture of a 14-year-old boy, Dulash Vimukthi Ranasinghe, by his language teacher, ...

[RE: UA-22-2004: NEPAL: Three young persons shot dead by security personnel and a girl among the victims was gang-raped before being killed in Pokahari Chauri-4, Kavre District] Dear friends, The Asia...

While a high-level delegation from the Nepalese Government has been busy defending Nepal’s record on torture before the United Nation’s Committee Against Torture during its 35th session, d...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of 16-year-old, W.K. Nilantha who was taken by two home guards to the Uragaha Police Station and seve...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Mr. Seneviratne Goshara Mudiyanselage Upali Nissanka who was arrested, detained and tortured by Su...

The issue of attempted arson to one of the buildings of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) of Sri Lanka came to be discussed at the 35th Session of the UN Committee against Torture (the Committee) duri...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal about the arrest and detention of Mr. Samir Dutta of Kalyangarh K...

[Re: HU-07-2005: Starvation deaths continue despite government’s commitment to provide food assistance in West Bengal; UA-161-2005: INDIA: Human rights defender physically assaulted, threatened ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the police shooting upon a crowd, which led to the death of five persons and injuries t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Kaluthara Guruge Thilan Suranga Jayasinghe, who was arbitrarily arrested upon false accusations an...

An estimated 25,000 people are being evicted from their homes in Gobindpur Railway Colony, West Bengal, India beginning today, November 10. The eviction follows a court order passed on 9 September 200...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Vidhanelage Ajith Wickramage, who was arbitrarily arrested by police officers from the Galewela Po...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a police sergeant was tortured and subsequently arrested by policemen attached to the Wadduwa police station.  The victim...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of the rescue of underage girls from forced prostitution launched by Guria, a human rights or...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the death of a man due to severe torture by the Railway Po...

The way that justice is administered by the courts in any country directly affects the national spirit. Whether or not the spirit of enthusiasm, energy and cooperation prevails in a particular society...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding 73 workers from the Orex Factory in Ekala, Jaela, Sri Lanka, who were unlawfully dismissed after the o...

That the practice of law is a devastated profession within the country is something all Sri Lankan lawyers will lament about. In fact, lawyers have very little impact when representing their clients, ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information from the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR) and other sources regarding the hunger s...