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Mr. Secretary-General, The human rights community of Nepal would like to draw your urgent attention concerning the lack of credible action being taken by the authorities in Nepal to address the cultur...

The home minister of Kerala recently admitted that the justice system in the southern Indian state is failing. His reason for this assertion was the low conviction rate, which he attributed to lazy an...

According to reports from the Sri Lankan press: Twenty four policemen including 4 Sergeants attached to Kollupitiya police station were interdicted with effect from yesterday after an inquiry conducte...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of yet another alleged forced disappearance of a 17 year-old boy named Thivarthan Murukesu Jebichandran by Sri Lanka’s military on 9...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that three more activists have been killed in separate incidents in the Philippines on August 20, 22 and 24. Accordi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information about the case of a young man in Burma who has been jailed without evidence or fair trial, allegedly for sellin...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), through its sister organisation, has submitted details to the United Nations of 12 persons who have allegedly been abducted by the security forc...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-203-2006 August 31, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission NEPAL: Prosecute acting Army Chief and remove the Army Act’s machinery of impunity The Asian ...

In mid-August Heng Pov, a former Phnom Penh police commissioner and advisor to Prime Minister Hun Sen who is now hiding in a foreign country, issued a public statement and gave an interview to L’...

[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 auth...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the alleged brutal torture of a 50 year-old farmer by allegedly intoxicated Kekirawa police officers on 24 August 2006...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal that a person was illegally taken into custody from his ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you on the occasion of the 2006 International Day for the Disappeared to encourage the Government of Japan to show leadership in addressing the i...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, we also encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to the Sri Lanka...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, we also encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to the Cambodian...

[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...

Asia is littered with countries where policies of abducting and “disappearing” people have had terrible consequences. Among them are Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Thailand, the Philip...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 29, 2006 AS-200-2006 Closing statement of the 6th Human Rights Folk School of the Asian Human Rights Commission ASIA: Still a long way to go to rule of law & human rig...

Dear friends, The case against Mahesh Ranaweera (12) was finally concluded 17 August 2006 at the Panwila Magistrates Court. Mahesh had been illegally arrested and detained by the Wattwgama police afte...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, we also encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to the Philippin...