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In Sri Lanka a white van without a number plate is a symbol of terror and the disappearances that occurred in all parts of the country.  Commissions on Disappearances in the South during the last few...

[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 and Ba...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has been informed by the Campaign for Popular Media Reform, Thailand and other rights defenders there about the ongoing criminal libel case against a pr...

[Re: UA-143-2004: THAILAND: At least 84 people killed in Southern Thailand on 26 October 2004; UP-65-2004: THAILAND: A list of the victims of the mass killing in Narathiwat province; Immediate interna...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that Mr. Uday Chakravarti, a journalist of the Bangla national daily newspaper The Sangbad, was beaten by a group of persons wo...

[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...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by reports emanating from the Philippines concerning alleged attempts to provide one of the most notorious members of the armed forces of ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission welcomes the European Parliament Resolution on Sri Lanka which was distributed on Thursday, September 7, 2006.  The full text of the resolution is reproduced below: ...

[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 Philippine au...

The journal entry of the magistrate’s court of Muttur for September 4, 2006, regarding the case of the killings of the 17 aid workers in Muttur belonging to Action Contre La Faim reads as follow...

[NOTICE: The AHRC has recently developed a new automatic email-sending system. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Cambodian authorities. We encourage you to ...

Dear friends, Accordingly to V. Pushpaleela, the wife of the deceased, on August 13, 2006, Sinnappan Abraham Kiragory together with several of his friends was arrested by the Eheliyagoda police on sus...

There is a saying in India that, “If a dog goes mad it can be chained; but what can be done if the chain goes mad?” Applied to law enforcement, criminals are the dog, the police are the ch...

PHILIPPINES: Extra-judicial killings; illegal arrests and detention; forced abduction and disappearance; inadequate police investigation; a need for impartial investigation; witness protection; attack...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information concerning the extra-judicial killing of a United Methodist Church religious worker, Pastor Isaias Sta. Rosa, wh...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have recently developed a new automatic letter-sending system. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Bangladesh authorities. We encourage you ...

PAKISTAN: Use of power; no respect for lower caste women; abduction of women; punishment for educating the low caste girl; no rule of law; impunity to perpetrators —————&...

[NOTICE: The AHRC has developed a new automatic letter-sending system using a “send button”. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Philippine author...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal regarding the abduction of three fishermen from Khas Mahal Damush...

A Forwarded Open Letter to His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapaksa from the International Commission of Jurists Nicholas Howen Secretary-General INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS Commission inter...