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The Asian Human Rights Commission reiterates its condemnation of the military coup in Thailand and calls for immediate restoration of the constitution and civilian government. Since this morning, Sept...
Earlier the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) circulated the complete text of this judgement (please see AS-217-2006). Among the many completely baseless legal positions on which this judgement ...
The Asian Human Rights Commission condemns the military coup in Thailand and calls for immediate restoration of civilian government. At approximately 10pm on September 19 a group of officers headed by...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by another forced disappearance in the ongoing conflict on the Jaffna peninsula, Sri Lanka. A Tamil ethnic, Mr. Irajeevan Sat...
RE: UP-114-2006: BANGLADESH: Safety measures must be taken to ensure the lives of Shahin Sultana Santa and her husband; UP-112-2006: Court dismisses charges against alleged perpetrators; UP-101-200...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) greatly appreciates your address to the second session of the UN Human Rights Council on September 18, 2006, and in particular the attention you gave to the pe...
The Bangkok Post newspaper of Tuesday, September 19 cited Vasant Panich, the human rights commissioner charged with investigating killings that occurred during the 2003 “war on drugs” as s...
We reproduced below a judgement made by a bench of five judges, presided over by the Chief Justice, Sarath N. Silva, of Sri Lanka, which leaves no doubt that the court wishes to nullify the impact of ...
[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...
[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...
A judgment made by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka on Friday, September 15 has all but removed the country from the international human rights community. The court declared that neither United Nations ...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal that a corrupt policing system and an insensitive judiciary in In...
[RE: UA-76-2004: THAILAND: A prominent environmentalist Charoen Wat-aksorn murdered and an independent investigation required; UP-40-2004: THAILAND: Arrest warrant issued against a local politician fo...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received documents and information from the Yoma 3 news service (Thailand) that another group of farmers in the delta region of Burma have co...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a rape victim is facing continuous threats from the alleged perpetrator due to deliberate inaction by the Paikgachha polic...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the alleged disappearance of three young men from their home in ongoing conflict area J...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information regarding the abduction of two lower caste women, a daughter and her mother, by the henchmen of the State Minist...
www.lankademocracy.org http://www.uthr.org/bulletins/bul41.htm University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna)Sri Lanka UTHR(J) Information Bulletin No. 41 Date of Release: 14th September 2006 The Wid...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that army Lieutenant General Rukmangat Katuwal was appointed as army Chief of Staff of Nepal on September 10, 2006, by Prime Minister Girija ...
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