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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding a statement from an independent group of Catholic priests regarding the critical situation in the Jaffna conflict area in Sri Lanka...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on August 24 issued yet another appeal about further threats and violations of fundamental rights by the Border Security Force (BSF) stationed along India̵...

The Bangkok Post on August 23 reported a spokesperson of the deputy prime minister of Thailand as saying that the government of Argentina understands the human rights situation in Thailand. According ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 24, 2006 AS-196-2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission  BANGLADESH: Lawless law-enforcement & the parody of judiciary The Asian Human Rights Commission...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) received information from KARAPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of Peoples Rights), a human rights organisation based in Manila, Philippines,?c...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, that a torture victim and her family have been threatened by an intel...

An announcement by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo that she is appointing a high level Commission of Inquiry to probe into the extrajudicial killings was exposed as a hoax within just a few days of ...

I write on behalf of Families of the Disappeared. I have seen in the Daily Mirror, Justice Page on August 19, 2006, a letter written by you to the editors of that paper inquiring from them about a pho...

[RE: UA-141-2004: SRI LANKA: A man arbitrarily assaulted by the SI of the Horana Police Station without any reason and UP-051-2006: SRI LANKA: Justice continues to evade victim one and a half years af...

The statement: Government and Tamil Tigers Must Respect International Humanitarian Law (Colombo, August 21, 2006) – The Sri Lankan government and the armed opposition Liberation Tigers of Tamil ...

The statement: INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS 17 August 2006 Sri : ICJ calls on Government and LTTE to publicly state commitment to international humanitarian law The International Commission of ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to you today to call for greater UN intervention to address the atrocious situation of human rights and concomitant corruption, failed governance an...

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has announced the proposal for the appointment of a high level commission to investigate allegations of extrajudicial killings, as well as to supervise the actual inv...

[RE: UA-247-2006: SRI LANKA: Man brutally tortured by the Wanduramba Police Station requires months of hospitalisation and UP-146-2006: SRI LANKA: Update on torture victim Mr. Premalal] ——...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by its partner in Nepal, Advocacy Forum, about further developments to the case of 33-year old Mr. Teksu Rai, a permanent resid...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, regarding yet another incident of brutality and torture committed by ...

Dear friends,   The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you regarding the use of excessive force by policemen and security guards in dispersing 21 union members of a protest at ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with deep concern to inform you that the family of a religious worker, Pastor Isaias Sta. Rosa, who was killed on August 3, 2006, is prese...

While the call for a peaceful resolution of the Sri Lankan conflict has arisen from high level sources such as the Secretary General of the United Nations and even the Pope, these make hardly any diff...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to draw your attention to the fact that personnel from Bangladesh being deployed for United Nations peacekeeping missions abroad may be responsible for ...