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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...

[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...

The most violent place in Asia at the moment is Sri Lanka, with the state not taking any serious steps to bring the situation under control. The state blames the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE...

The Philippines in recent times has been plagued by widespread and systematic violations of human rights, which include unabated extrajudicial killings, torture and enforced disappearances, among othe...

In addition to the general statement issued by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) for International Human Rights Day on December 10, we are also making the brief comments below on the human righ...

Discontent over malfunctioning democracies and legal systems and the consequent setbacks these shortcomings cause for human rights and the rule of law, as well as aggressively expressed aspirations to...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner MASUM in West Bengal regarding the death of a two-day old baby after she was arbitrarily detained...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has been informed of the alleged abduction and subsequent forced disappearance of Mr. Thares Sodsri (53), a well known environmental activist in Baan Kh...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing in response to your December 5 statement in which you expressed your support for an illegal sale of 115 hectares of public land in Bokeo district, R...

BANGLADESH: Rape; violence against woman; negligence of duty; threat; intimidation; extortion; corruption; abuse of power; collapse of rule of law ———————R...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its partner, Advocacy Forum, a local human rights organization in Nepal, regarding the alleged rape of 12-year-old ...

Since 2003, the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas Ham) has been consistently appealing the Attorney General to present the investigative findings of an independent investigation conducted by Ko...

Pakistan Railways has asked the city district government of Karachi to promptly make arrangements for land to be vacated in approximately a 100-foot radius on both sides of its railway tracks. Pakista...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (Kontras) regarding the recent developments in the yet u...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) was informed that a man was allegedly beaten to death by the Nabiganj police in Habiganj district on 25 November 2006. After the police allegedly...