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UPDATE (Philippines): Lawyers listed as targets sought judicial protection

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to inform you that the three human rights lawyers, whose names were included in the list of targets in a leaked document reportedly cr...

PHILIPPINES: A labour rights defender is murdered; police shoot two men in custody

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that officers who shot two men dead in custody have yet to be investigated or charged, and that the murder of a labour leader has n...

SRI LANKA: Registers on entry and leaving of internally displaced persons needs to be created urgently to prevent forced disappearances 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-135-2009 June 16, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Registers on entry and leaving of internally displaced persons needs to be created urg...

CAMBODIA: Judicial independence is the key to reducing defamation lawsuits against critics and upholding freedom of expression 

Prime Minister Hun Sen is utilising much of the countryÂ’s electronic media to assert his leadership of the country and send out messages to his people through his public speeches at different functio...

SRI LANKA: Deportation of Bob Rae: Some Fundamental Questions for the future of Minorities and the Erasure of Democracy 

Dear Friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) Sri Lanka. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- ...

SRI LANKA: End twenty years of impunity 

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE June, 11 2009 The Sri Lankan government’s failure to deliver justice for serious human rights violations over the past twenty years has trapped the country in...

WORLD: UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to food recommends principles and measures to discipline “land grabbing” 

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

SRI LANKA: New Chief Justice Asoka de Silva welcomed by Bench and the Bar 

(The new chief justice Asoka de Silva was welcomed by the Bench and the Bar on 11thJune at the Superior Court Complex at a ceremonial sitting. The address of the Chief Justice Asoka de Silva to the au...

CAMBODIA: Phnom Penh Municipality’s impossible requirement for holding forum violates freedom of assembly 

Over the recent months, a human rights NGO, the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR), has been making arrangements to hold a public forum for concerned officials and residents of Boeung Kak Lake i...

THAILAND: Prosecution of Tak Bai killers must now begin 

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you following the inquest findings of a court in Thailand issued on 29 May 2009 that the deaths of 78 men in Narathiwat in October 2004 was a res...

SRI LANKA: A Marred Victory and a Defeat Pregnant with Foreboding 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the University Teachers For Human Rights – UTHR J (Jaffna ) Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An...

SRI LANKA: Crimes, dengue fever, attacks on journalists, problems of toilets and food and euphoric celebrations 

Basil Fernando Ankubura Seelaratne is a 25-year-old Buddhist monk who with youthful exuberance was engaged in campaigns to eliminate the sale of illicit liquor. Last week he was hospitalised in a crit...

SOUTH KOREA: Statement from Professors in North America Concerned about Korean Democracy 

The following represents the considered view of professors at colleges and universities throughout North America whose thoughts are with Korea and Korea’s democracy. In light of recent developme...

SRI LANKA: Statement of a Group of Concerned Tamils of Sri Lanka 

Dear Friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from a Group of Concerned Tamils of Sri Lanka. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from aÂ...

PAKISTAN: A student leader goes missing after his alleged arrest by state agents; a female student demonstrator is sentenced to three years in jail

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that a student activist has been arrested by members of a military intelligence agency, and his whereabouts are still unknown...

SRI LANKA: A local criminal disables a man and police fail to act

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police and the Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission have failed to investigate case in which a man was attacked and...

SRI LANKA: The need to set aside the blatantly wrong conviction of Anthony Fernando 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-133-2009 June 9, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: The need to set aside the blatantly wrong conviction of Anthony Fernando With the retir...

INDIA: The treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) children in Madhya Pradesh — Suggestions for the policy 

Greetings from Right to Food Campaign Madhya Pradesh Group! Right to Food Campaign Madhya Pradesh Support Group is an alliance of civil society organizations and peopleÂ’s organizations working across...

INDIA: The treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) children in Madhya Pradesh — Suggestions for the policy 

Greetings from Right to Food Campaign Madhya Pradesh Group! Right to Food Campaign Madhya Pradesh Support Group is an alliance of civil society organizations and peopleÂ’s organizations working across...

BANGLADESH: Rights groups urged the government to probe human rights abuses and reform institutions 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Universal Periodic Review Forum of Bangladesh, a coalition of 17 human rights, womenÂ’s rights, labour and indigenous peopleÂ’s...