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Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian f...

In a historic decision the Delhi High Court ordered compensation for violation of constitutional and reproductive rights of two impoverished women. The judgment will have immense health policy implica...

More than one billion people suffer from hunger. To tackle this problem, global governance for food security and nutrition needs to be improved. Access to land is a crucial factor in this context. The...

INDIA: Interview with Sanajabi, a homemaker Mrs. Raj Kumari Sanajaobi is a homemaker and represents the ordinary women in Manipur state, India. She lives in Singjamei Chingamakha Yanglem Leikai, Manip...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that on 10 June 2010, Mr. Thokchom Nimai Singh, father of Thokchom Inao was shot in front of his house at about 10.30 ...

Basil Fernando* On 23 May 2010, police officers, including a woman police constable reportedly tortured and abused a mother and her 12-year-old son in Rajouri Garden Police Outpost in Delhi. It is rep...

Avinash Pandey Samar* On 23 May 2010, police officers, including a woman police constable reportedly tortured and abused a mother and her 12-year-old son in Rajouri Garden Police Outpost in Delhi. It ...

On May 15, 2010, all but 2 out of one hundred villagers were seriously injured while police were dispersing them. They had been peacefully protesting against the POSCO steel plant project in Orissa, I...

Today, the Union Home Ministry, the Chief Ministers of Manipur and Nagaland and a handful of Naga and Meitei nationalists are celebrating the 61st day of their successful enforcement of an indefinite ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that on 23 May 2010, a team of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel opened fire indiscriminately and without ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-096-2010 June 8, 2010 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: Bhopal judgment symbolises decayed justice in a deficient democracy The recent judgment del...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the soldiers from a field regiment stationed in Manipur Block, Hailakandi district, Assam illegally raided houses...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release issued by the People’s Tribunal in Narmada Valley. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you that action has been taken against officials found guilty of corruption and misappropriation of government funds intended for the poor in ...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that police officers in Silchar Police Station, Assam allegedly harassed and threatened a victim of domestic violence ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release issued by a fact-finding team who visited Balitutha where the police fired against villagers...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Human Rights Alert (HRA) that in two separate incidents of indiscriminate firing two persons were killed and thre...

The stoning to death of 22-year-old Swapna and her husband 28-year-old Sunkari Sriniwas on 23 May by Swapna’s family near Krishnajiwadi village, Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh state is one more proof...

(Hong Kong, May 25, 2010) Drawing inspiration from the non-violent protest of Ms. Irom Sharmila of Manipur, a group of activists, artists, journalists, writers, academics, research scholars and studen...

Three weeks after the Home Secretary Mr. G. K. Pillai’s discussion with the Chief Minister of Manipur, Mr. Okram Ibobi Singh, the state and its people continue to suffer from the unilateral econ...