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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...
PHILIPPINES: violence against activist; impartial and independent investigation; collapse of rule of law ———————————– Dear frien...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about abduction of a man of Madawachiya, Sri Lanka in a notorious white van incident on 4 September 2006. It is reported...
Dutch and Belgian Lawyers organizations were alarmed by the reports and statements of international and Filipino human rights organizations and various news items about the violence against members of...
INDIA: Corrupt policing and poor quality of investigation; nexus between the police and criminals; impunity; poor quality of government hospitals; failure of the rule of law ———̵...
[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 aut...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned that the Ratanakiri provincial Governor allegedly rejected the prosecutor decision on 16 November 2006 of halting the planned...
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