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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...

PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial killings, violence against activist; a need for impartial and independent investigation; enforced and involuntary disappearance; torture; collapse of rule of lawTo support ...

[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 Pakistan aut...

The AHRC produces below the full text of this historic agreement: The full text of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement held between Government of Nepal and Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) dated Novemb...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you concerning the closure of the Mast FM 103 radio station in Balakot, North West Frontier Province, in response to your letter of 6 November 20...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-293-2006 November 24, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission On the 24th November, 2004 (exactly two years ago) Gerard Perera succumbed to injuries caused by ...

PHILIPPINES: violence against villagers seeking land reform; forced displacement; harassment and intimidation; violation of right to land; un-rule of law ——————R...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the disappearance of a 49 year-old welder named Weligoda Ananda from his home at ‘Sevana’ (house) Induraga...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a young navy sailor was harassed and threatened at gunpoint by a sub inspector and other policemen at a police secu...

On September 18, a day before the military coup that overthrew the caretaker government in Thailand, one of the country’s human rights commissioners called for the authorities to pay serious att...

SRI LANKA: Rape; violence against woman; negligence of duty; improper police investigation; impunity; dysfunction of the rule of law; delay of justice. ———————...

CAMBODIA: Corruption; collapse of the rule of law; illegal deprivation of the land; illegal destruction of property ————————————...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner the Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) based in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh s...

According to information received by the Asian Human Rights Commission, a senior police officer in Cambodia has arrested his son for allegedly shooting a rival student in the leg. Khou Sunnary, provin...

The Nation newspaper of November 22 has published a summary of the full reasons to be given by the military junta in Thailand for its September 19 takeover. According to the newspaper, the justificati...