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Thousands of peasants from different parts of the Sindh province are on a long march demanding amendments in the Sindh Tenancy Act, 1950. The demand is to obtain equal status for the peasants while th...

The recent incident of violence between a faction of lawyers practicing at the Madras High Court and the Tamil Nadu local police is one more incident that exposes the appalling state of rule of law in...

Dear Friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that the subversion charges against rights activist Mr. Buchtar Tabuni, referred to as Buktar Tabuni in previous appealÂ...

Private members’ bill placed with JS Secretariat Shakhawat Liton A private members’ bill has been submitted to the Parliament Secretariat for being placed in the House, proposing enactment...

Dear Friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Human Rights Watch. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statement from Human Rights Watch forwa...

Dear friends,  In recent weeks there has been a great deal of news internationally about the plight of Rohingya leaving from western Burma in boats whom navy and security personnel of Thailand have p...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Nervazhi, a human rights organisation based in Kerala, India about the case of a Dalit boy, who was tortured and ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) that a young man died of hunger while on a hunge...

Mr. John Solecki, who heads the United Nation’s refugee agency UNHCR’s Quetta office in Pakistan, was abducted on 2nd February, 2009, by a militant group, fighting for political autonomy o...

The newly elected Government of Bangladesh led by the Bangladesh Awami League has announced its decision of withdrawing “politically motivated” cases that are pending before the courts acr...

On 26 January, 2009 a 21-year-old girl was covered in petrol by her husband and her in-laws and burned to death. Mrs. Bisma Bibi, resident of Chak number 86, NB Sargodha, Punjab, had been married to o...

(Hong Kong, February 19, 2009) Member of Parliament, Mr. Saber Hossain Chowdhury has filed a notice yesterday to the parliament, proposing a Private Member Bill to incorporate the United Nations Conve...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern that a labour lawyer and several other activists, who had already been released after they were exonerated from question...

A group of domestic helpers from Sri Lanka interviewed last week in Hong Kong expressed views which are representative of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, as well as those aspiring to be migr...

The constitutional petition No. D-2417/2008, regarding the eight women and four children who were made hostages by the police of four districts of Sindh province, for the surrender of a robber was hea...

Very recently three different communities living in three different provinces have organized occult ceremonies to seek help from supernatural forces to seek justice and protection from land grabbing. ...

(Hong Kong, February 18, 2009) A twenty-year-old Filipino waiter, who suffered second degree burns to his face and chest caught fire in a work related accident has now sought compensation for the inju...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault and subsequent death of a man in Wariyapola prison on December 22, 2008. He was severely assault...

*COLOMBO**, 16 February 2009:* The United Nations’ concern for the welfare of the civilian population caught up in the fighting has heightened based on reports received in the last few days. Whi...

Is there a relation between the residents of the Gaza strip and the Indians? Other than for the fact that the Government of India supports the Palestinian cause, there is no apparent connection betwee...