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From 1971 until the defeat of the LTTE there has been a continuous period of violence where both rebel groups and the state engaged in an attempt to outdo each other in brutality. One of the consequen...

The practice of torture is endemic in Asia, and the region’s governments show no political will to eliminate it. In fact, states treat torture as a necessary aspect of social control, directly or ind...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-143-2009 June 23, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the Occasion of the International Day against Torture, 26 June 2009 BANGLADESH: Bangladesh&#...

Torture in custody is a very common phenomenon in Pakistan because of the rouged legal system and impotent rule of law. The laws of the land are silent on the issue of torture by the law enforcement a...

[RE: AHRC-HAU-003-2009: UPDATE (India): Two children suffer from malnutrition in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh] Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated informa...

Basil Fernando (This article appeared as the lead article in the Lanka Guardian on June 23, 2009 – Editor). “Instead the constitution needs to be amended as has been agreed by all political parties ...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Human Rights Alert (HRA), a human rights organisation based in Imphal, Manipur, Ind...

FIAN demands profound changes to address the dramatic increase of hunger Rome/Heidelberg (22.June.2009) – FIAN, the international Human Rights organization for the Right to Food, calls for profo...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the provincial court in Songkhla, Southern Thailand is set to hear the case against a group of policemen on 24 June 2009...

The Indian state of West Bengal is once again in the news for condemnable reasons. In a short span, the conflict in Lalgarh of West Midnapore district has increased in intensity, costing life and prop...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Human Rights Initiative (HRI), a human rights organisation based in Imphal, Manipur state, concerning the murde...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has previously reported on the case of two human rights lawyers who were sentenced to four months’ imprisonment each for contempt of court,...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Navsarjan, a human rights organisation based in Gujarat, that an entire Dalit community is being punished for the...

Amarakoon Dissanayake Sarath Kumara went to the Supreme Court to complain that he was assaulted by several police officers, and was also abused by them. He was then forcibly taken to a police station ...

[RE: AHRC-HAG-003-2009: PHILIPPINES: Soldiers burn houses, blocks food supply for over 34,000 displaced families in Maguindanao] Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform...

We are greatly concerned at the conditions of 15 complaining palm oil over seas Philippine workers (OFWs) in Sabah province who were prevented by their employer on June 17 from getting any food suppli...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Advocacy Forum, Nepal. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ———...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been closely following the case against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and three other persons since their arrest in May 2009, which is a clear produ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the allegedly unlawful arrest of a man from his workplace in Dehiwela by police in 2008. Hours after making a po...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-137-2009 June 17, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SOUTH KOREA: Prosecutor deprives defendants of opportunity to fair trial It is well known that th...