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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partners The Peoples’ vigilance committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) and Benaras Mahila Mazdoor Sangatahn in...
In recent weeks there has been a lot of talk in Thailand about the need to reform the police. Everyone agrees that policing in Thailand is a huge problem. As is common throughout Asia, the police forc...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-215-2006 September 14, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission CAMBODIA: Law abolishing parliamentary immunity is unconstitutional & unacceptable On August...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to inform you that a court in Thailand has identified three army officers as responsible for the killing of 28 persons inside the Krue...
[NOTICE: To facilitate your intervention of the urgent appeals issued by the AHRC, we have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal...
The abduction of yet another Tamil businessman on December 11, in Kotahena by an unidentified group was reported in Lankanet. The victim is said to be Chabamale Muttu Folton (42) and he was abducted...
The committee appointed to hunt for corrupt deals done by the previous government of Thailand has called for the former head of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) under the Ministry of Just...
[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...
[RE: UA-164-2004: INDONESIA: The family receives death threats for demanding an impartial inquiry into the death of Munir; UP-30-2005: INDONESIA: Unveiling of suspect in Munir’s death may end fu...
During year 2006 there has been no relief in Human rights violations. On the contrary, as in previous years cases such as torture, disappearances and violence against women has increased. The govern...
On December 7 a man was arrested and charged for having spray painted over images of the King of Thailand in the northern province of Chiang Mai. The man reportedly claimed that he was drunk and expre...
[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) received information from its partner organisation, Action Committee for Civic Problems (ACCP), regarding the disappearance of two political part...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received two separate alleged rape cases; one from the Shahre Buzurg district of Badakshan province and the other from the Aliabad district of Kondo...
More than 70% of the Indians are being left behind and ignored in India, while the government is lauding the country’s developed status. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has noted throug...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is calling for your urgent intervention to provide immediate protection to a witness of a custodial death case, who is receiving death threats in...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission(AHRC) has received information that 13-year-old Lahiru Nalaka, a student of the Sri Pada Madya Maha School, Palabaddala, Ratnapura District, Sri Lanka, ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner MASUM regarding the brutal assault on peaceful peasants by the police while they were protesting ...
[RE: UA-216-2005: PHILIPPINES: Soldiers kill nine farmers in Leyte, Visayas; UP-141-2005: PHILIPPINES: Peasants were brutally massacred by soldiers; pregnant woman among the dead; UP-019-2006: PHILIPP...
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