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If you are planning for one year, plant rice If you are planning for twenty years, plant trees If you are planning for one hundred years, plant people.” – Chinese proverb It has been repor...

As the Human Rights Council meeting was in session the spokesmen for the Sri Lankan government have been quite busy, judging by the number of statements circulated through the internet that are trying...

CMU STATEMENT President Mahinda Rajapakse’s New Year message to the nation requires consideration in relation to the prospect that he has held out to the people of this country for this year. This is...

Posted on March 9, 2008 by FMM 8th March 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Free Media Movement (FMM) expresses its concern that number of journalists have being taken in for questioning on 7th and 8th of ...

(Hong Kong, March 11, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission has written to the UN Rapporteur on Torture seeking his intervention regarding several Sri Lankan journalists after receiving reliable inf...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a police was arrested on 19 February 2008 and allegedly tortured and ill treated in police custody in Kep seaside town, Cambodia...

On April 2006, labour activist Gerardo Cristobal first survived an attempt on his life by armed men who were later identified to be a policeman and members of security forces in Imus, Cavite. Not enti...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) regarding serious threats to a trade union leader by the military in O...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is shocked to learn that a labour leader who survived an earlier attempt on his life in April 2006 was shot dead this morning, March 10. Gerardo ...

The decision by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League- N (PML-N) to restore all the deposed judges of the superior courts including the chief justice, Mr. Iftekhar M. Choud...

On 22 February 2008 the deputy prosecutor attached to Phnom Penh Court named Hing Bunchea led a police force to execute the Supreme Court’s order to evict 23 families in Banla Saet village, Khmu...

(New York, March 6, 2008) – The Sri Lankan government is responsible for widespread abductions and “disappearances” that are a national crisis, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released toda...

International Independent Group of Eminent Persons FOR RELEASE ON 06 MARCH 2008 Colombo, 05 March 2008 REF: IIGEP-PS-005-2008 Contact: IIGEP Public Information Office Colombo Hilton Residence, Suite 7...

According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan it is estimated that a woman is raped every two hours and a gang rape occurs every eight hours and about 1,000 women die annually in honor killings...

The announcement by the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) that they are quitting the Presidential Commission of Inquiry comes as no surprise at all. The surprise is as to why ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to congratulate you on your appointment as the Minister of Justice of South Korea last Friday, 29 February 2008. The AHRC welcomes your inauguration rem...

The present military backed caretaker government of Bangladesh has banned all political activities since the state of emergency was proclaimed on 11 January 2007, which supplemented the Emergency Powe...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death sentence of a man from minority community, who is due to be executed on 12 March 2008. He was charge...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that three senior police officers, who are responsible for the brutal assault of a policeman, were simply transferred to...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), a local human rights organisation working in Uttar ...