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(Hong Kong, March 4, 2008) The Asian Human Rights Commission on Tuesday launched a blog campaign to raise debate on the appointment of new members to Thailand’s national human rights body. The H...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) congratulates the Corruption Eradication Commission of Indonesia (KPK) for their success in the struggle against corruption in the Indonesian prosecution syste...

Basharat Mughal, the president of a group of minority Muslims — the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Halqa Manzoor Colony – in Karachi, was murdered on the 24 February 2008. The forty five year old ...

Most of the national daily newspapers of Bangladesh, including the Daily Star and the Prothom Alo, published reports on 28 February 2008 stating that three personnel of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AHRC-STM-053-2008 March 3, 2008 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Lawyer’s movement is the ‘vanguard of democracy’ The lawyer’s move...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Centre for Social Development (CSD), a human rights organisation based in Manipur, India regarding the murder o...

(Hong Kong, February 28, 2008) The Asian Legal Resource Centre has recently submitted six separate country reports for consideration by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Re...

We are forwarding a position paper circulated by Transparency International Sri Lanka on the issue of the removal of the Director General of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery. 28 Fe...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged threat to a Member of Parliament (MP) who was prevented from holding a meeting with villagers by t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against...

The political parties who won in the February 18th elections have informed the Chief Executive, Presidnet Musharraf that have the two thirds majority to form the new government. This is now quite well...

The only long lasting achievement that can come out of the recent electoral victories of the people against the military lead regime of President Musharraf would be the restoration of the chief justic...

In January 2008, the Cambodian government set up a “quick response team” to counter opposition news media and foreign radio stations that publish information attacking it. The announcement...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged torture of a man and false charges being made against him and his family members by the Kolonne po...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned that despite calls from human rights defenders and organisations across Asia and around the world, still the justice ministr...

Four human rights defenders associated with a human rights organisation, Right to Life, based in Sri Lanka, have been deprived of their right to engage in peaceful activities by a permanent injunction...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of four-year-old boy, Khusbuddin, who died of acute malnutrition in Harpalpur village of Kashi Vidyap...

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Rt Revd Duleep de Chickera, Bishop of Colombo. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Statemen...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police allegedly assaulted two men, which caused that one’s tooth to be broken, and detained them in Ahangama...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the authorities at the Negombo Base Hospital have allegedly harassed a women since she reported a suspicious incide...