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The issue of enforced disappearances is among the highlighted topics of the discussion of human rights abuses in Sri Lanka. While about 1,000 disappearances were reported in 2006, already by April, 20...
On March 3 2007 Prime Minister Hun Sen received from his party, the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), full power to eradicate the land grabbing that has been plaguing the country for many years. W...
[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Indian autho...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Working Group on Justice for Peace that the inquest into the deaths of 78 persons in army custody in Narathiwat, souther...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partner Advocacy Forum in Nepal that seven persons, including five minors, were arbitrarily arrested without wa...
[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Cambodian au...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner Nervazhi, a local human rights organisation based in Thrissur, Kerala that the government pleader...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the PVCHR, a human rights organisation in Uttar Pradesh state, that several families in Alhadapur...
(New York, April 12, 2007) The Sri Lankan government is abusing antiterrorism legislation to clamp down on journalists who expose human rights abuses, official corruption, or otherwise question the...
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article on the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal regarding extrajudicial killings in the Philippines. This article is written by Antonio Tujan Jr ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the alleged arbitrary arrest, detention and brutal assault of a man by the Ratnapura police on 15 March 2007. The ...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Association of Initiative Developing and People Advocacy (PIAR) of the alleged brutal torture of a teenage yout...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner MASUM, based in West Bengal that a family is facing continuous threat from extortionists and that...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that Advocacy Forum, one of the leading human rights organizations in Nepal providing legal aid services to detainees, now...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about yet another brutal attack on the protesters of the National Liberation Unity Party (PAPERNAS) by fundamental group...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that on 25 March 2007 an Inspector working at the Office of the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Negombo alleged...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR) in Uttar Pradesh regarding the al...
Monoranjan Ghosh, a resident of Gopalpur village in South 24 Parganas District of West Bengal, was threatened by a money-extorting gang at least half a dozen times. Monoranjan was assaulted several ti...
A radical mosque and its affiliated seminaries have greatly increased their influence in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan after the mass protests throughout the country against President Mushar...
In response to the shooting of a group of youths in the south of Thailand on April 9, an army officer has been quoted as saying that the armed militia personnel were justified to fire in self defence....
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