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To mark the fifth anniversary of the police abduction and forced disappearance in Bangkok of human rights lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit on 12 March 2004, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is dist...
Geneva, 10 March 2009 — The Working Group on Justice for Peace met with the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) today to deliver a statement by Angkhana Neelapaij...
A core element in any judicial function is impartiality. The common saying is that judges need not only to be impartial but need to be seen to be impartial. Over the centuries codes of conduct have be...
“All kinds of gambling shall be absolutely prohibited everywhere in the Kingdom of Cambodia, except when authorized by the government”, says Article 1 of the Law on the Prohibition of Gamb...
Somchai Neelapaijit has been missing since 12 March 2004, when he was last seen in Bangkok being forced into a car with a group of men. At the time of his disappearance, he was Chairman of the Muslim ...
It was reported on Sunday, March 8 that according to the Prime Minister of Thailand, Abhisit Vejjajiva, the arrested director of the independent news agency Prachatai is entitled to make a complaint i...
(Hong Kong, March 10, 2009) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Tuesday launched a new Burmese-language human rights web blog. The AHRC has set up the blog to cover a range of current affai...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Wennappuwa police tortured a young man on October 8, 2008. Following his arrest the police did not inform his...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that seven construction workers were illegally arrested and held by soldiers over allegations that they were constructing ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-053-2009 March 9, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PHILIPPINES: “Guilt by relation” renders due process meaningless On March 4, 20-y...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-052-2009 March 8, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Conditions for women are more precarious on International Women’s Day 2009 Mu...
Government and Tamil Tigers Should Allow Civilians to Flee Conflict Area (New York, March 5, 2009) The Sri Lankan government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) should immedi...
According to an announcement issued today on the website of Prachatai, one of the few independent and outspoken media outlets operating in Thailand, “On March 6, at 3 pm, seven police officers...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is informed that Guria, a human rights organisation working in Uttar Pradesh against human trafficking is waiting for police assistance since the past four hou...
(Hong Kong, March 6, 2009) Two rights lawyers in Burma who were last year imprisoned for contempt of court were both released this morning after serving their full sentences. Supreme Court advocates...
(Hong Kong, March 6, 2009) In the fundamental rights case filed by two lawyers, Amitha Ariyaratne and H.R.D.G. Mendis, a husband and wife who are both Attorneys-at-Law, filed against the Inspector Gen...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that three persons who were illegally arrested and detained after the September 2007 protests in Burma, including two on ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Ahungalla police threatened and pressurized a family who lodged a complaint about a teacher’s assault o...
[RE: AHRC-HAU-001-2008: INDIA: UPDATE (India): Boy suffering from malnutrition dies; 13 others remain at serious risk] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) had reported that a two-ye...
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