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Koichiro Matsuura  Director-General United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation 7, place de Fontenoy  75352 Paris 07 SP  France Fax: +33 (0)1 45 67 16 90 E-mail: bpi@unesco.or...

A newspaper item appeared yesterday in the Daily Mirror (December 21, 2006) reporting that a press release from your office stated: “…that the Human Rights Organization based in Hong Kong,...

STATEMENT- ABOLISHMENT OF TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION BILL On the 7th December 2006, the Supreme Court in Jakarta abolished the highly controversial Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) B...

[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) regrets to inform you of the death of Charnchai Promthongchai (23) who had been under military custody for four days after being arrested by the ...

The newspapers reported a request by the Judicial Service Association (JSA) to “implement the death penalty to halt the loss of public confidence in the judiciary.”  This, according to th...

(Hong Kong, December 21, 2006) The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) announces the release of its Human Rights Report for 2006 (345 pages), entitled “The State of Human .” The report i...

We refer your our earlier statement ‘SRI LANKA: Do newspapers like the Sunday Times, Daily Mirror and Lankadeepa contribute to the prevalence of endemic torture in Sri Lanka?’ and the doss...

BANGLADESH: Extrajudicial killing; violation of the right to life; brutality of security forces; impunity —————————————...

SRI LANKA: Extrajudicial killings; violation of the right to life; impunity; dysfunction of criminal justice system ———————————–...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to inform you of two more alleged disappearance cases from Sindh province in Pakistan which separately took place in July and August 2006. To dat...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the arbitrary arrest of a businessman named Muzibur Rahman from his house by the Detective Branch (DB)...

[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...

[RE: UA-72-2005: PHILIPPINES: Prosecutor’s inaction to file murder charges against military officers who killed two people; UP-130-2006: PHILIPPINES: Court judge delays issuance of arrest warran...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you about the case of two women from Surkhet district in Nepal who were raped by the two Nepal Armed Force security offi...

On September 29, four members of a poor peasant Dalit (non-caste Hindu) family in Khairlanji village of Bhandara, in the northeast of the state of Maharashtra, were brutally killed in planned mob viol...

A policeman in the south of Thailand speaking confidentially one day to a human rights defender explained how he gets assigned to kill people. The superior officers do not give direct orders. Rather, ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement issued by Justice Peace Human Development Human Rights Secretariat (SETIK) on the current situat...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the forced abduction of a man from Ranala, Sri Lanka in a notorious white van incident on 23 August 2006. The fami...

SRI LANKA: arbitrary arrest and detention; torture; abuse of police power; collapse of the rule of law; forced disappearances ——————————R...