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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information from Advocacy Forum, the local human rights group in Nepal, that Des Raj Chauhan had been handed over to the sec...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the prolonged detention of two farmers in Davao Oriental province, the Philippines. Both of them have been detained fo...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that four farmers were wounded after they were reportedly ambushed by armed security guards of an influential landowner in H...
Singur, in Hooghly district of West Bengal was in the national news for the resistance by the agrarian populace in Singur against the forceful eviction from their property by the state government. The...
Human rights activists in Pakistan are focusing throughout this week on the issue of disappearances before the observance of International Human Rights Day on December 10. As part of the weeks activ...
(A dossier of shame – The full dossier of reports published, objections sent and other related material on a torture case with a letter written to R.S. Wijewardene, Chairperson, Wijeya Newspaper...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from a number of sources on the jailing of two human rights defenders in Burma who were arrested with signatures...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement in the form of an article entitled Beyond Contempt: Meandering Thoughts on Moudud, the Madam, an...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-299-2006 December 4, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission THAILAND: If not Somchai’s bones, whose bones? According to a news report on the website of ...
A statement issued on the occasion of the International Symposium on the Structures and Funcations of NHRIs: a search for best practices to be held in Seoul, South Korea on December 4, 2006 The goals ...
The Gerard Perera murder case came for further hearing on December 1, 2006 before the Negombo High Court. This case is being heard by a judge specially appointed to hear the case as another case rel...
[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 many of the Cambodian a...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you to seek your intervention regarding the attempts of a village head in Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh to block the construction of a school ...
[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 many of the Pakistan aut...
INDONESIA: Torture; failure of delivering legal redress to torture victims; impunity; un-rule of law ——————————————&...
[RE: UA-219-2005: PHILIPPINES: Threat against an activist priest; bullets offered after a mass in Bulacan, Luzon] ————————————- ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learn that a torture victim was allegedly arrested by Kompong Cham provincial police officers in front of the Kompong Cham provincial court o...
29 November 2006 Geneva The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today called on member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council to closely scrutinise the human rights situation in Sri L...
The arrest of over 400 human rights and political activists on November 27, 2006 in Balochistan province to prevent them from participating in peaceful protests when the head of state, President Musha...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-295-2006 November 30, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: SC decision on the case of D.A. Nimal Silva Gunaratna vs. ASP Ranmal Kodituwakku requi...
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