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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the continual and apparent deliberate delay in seeking justice for a victim of torture against two accused pol...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding misconduct displayed by a police official and an officer of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) during...
On April 11, staff of the West Bengal-based human rights group Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (Masum) went by appointment to raise their concerns over attacks on Gopen Sharma, a local human righ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed of the illegal arrest and torture of Vidana Arachchige Norman Krishantha Jayawardana (43), the assistant regional manager of Ma...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by yet another honor killing case from Shikarpur District, Sindh Province, Pakistan. According to the information we receive...
Update on Urgent Appeals: UA-35-2003: Two hundred Adivasis made homeless over land rights; UP-32-2003: Enquiry into the shooting of Adivasis in 2001; UP-34-2003: Landless people stand firm against ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, regarding the case of Mr. Gopen Sharma, a human rights d...
Dear friends, Further to our Hunger Alert, HA-07-2005 issued on April 11, 2005, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) would like to provide you with the following pictures depicting the current liv...
[RE: UP-39-2005: SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Three Sri Lankans face imminent execution in Saudi Arabia; UP-38-2005: SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Please send a letter to the King of Saudi Arabia urging his inte...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information on the death of Nallawarige Sandasirilal Fernando, a 36-year-old man who died of serious head injuries after he was assa...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission urgently requests your intervention to provide special protection to torture victim, Mr. Nimal Silva Gunaratne! Mr. Gunaratne was arrested by the Panadu...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, regarding a police attack on a human rights defender, Mr Gopen S...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the living conditions of adivasis (tribal people) employed as sugarcane cutters at the Bardoli Sugar Factory i...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a torture victim, R. Don Nawaratne Bandara, refused to give his statement in the Panadura Magistrate Court fearing ...
Recent reports that the execution of three Sri Lankan men in Saudi Arabia are to be carried out in the coming days has led the Asian Human Rights Commission to inquire into this matter with much urgen...
[RE: UP-38-2005: SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Please send a letter to the King of Saudi Arabia urging his intervention to commute the death sentence of three Sri Lankans; UP-34-2005: Death sentence for t...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the chief organiser of the branch of the Progressive Union in G.P. Garments (Pvt) Ltd in the Export Processing Zone...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information regarding the assault of a police constable by several other personnel at a police post in Andiyagala on 3 Fe...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the death of an Under Trial Prisoner (UTP) due to lack of ...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) notes that the Government and of Sri Lanka and, more specifically, its foreign ministry is taking a very passive role in defending the rights and saving the li...
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