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Heidelberg, (17 November, 2009) – The human rights organization FIAN criticized the final declaration of the World Summit on Food Security as a document that presents no and promoting the right ...

E.M. Parvati died yesterday. Parvati was a resident of Belgachhia Bhagar, a municipal dumping ground of Howrah in West Bengal. The doctor who examined Parvati’s body certified that the cause of ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-224-2009 November 16, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: Civil society demands “food security to all” On November 9 2009, a number ...

All aspects of corruption in rehabilitation to be inquired by Justice Jha Commission Corruption in payment of compensation to the ineligible, house plot allotment, livelihood grant to landless and bac...

Independent Citizens Fact Finding Mission to Manipur, Imphal, November 7, 2009 PRESS RELEASE A team of concerned citizens comprising of Dr. K. S. Subramanian IPS, formerly of the Manipur-Tripura cadre...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Narmada Bachao Andolan. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ——̵...

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, are writing to urge your government to support recommendations in the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone...

Fiji falls furthest, but big advance by Maldives Check your country ranking on: http://www.rsf.org/en-classement1003-2009.html Political power grabs dealt press freedom a great disservice again this ...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to draw your attention to the corruption that is excluding the poor from Below the Poverty Line (BPL) family list. BPL families are ex...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-216-2009 17 October, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: World Food Day and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: Do not give food, ...

New Delhi, October 15, 2009: On the eve of the World Food Day on October 16th and a day after the apex regulatory body in India gave its clearance for Bt Brinjal as India’s first Genetically Modified...

A group of representatives from caste-affected communities in Asia recently gave me a piece of brick from the wall of a torn-down latrine. The brick symbolized the global struggle against the degradin...

Respected Chief Minister, A prominent newspaper had recently carried a detailed story on the field trial of a Genetically Modified (GM) Corn of the American multi national company Monsanto being condu...

Human rights organisations working against caste based discrimination in the region must engage in debates on the need for a comprehensive UN framework to tackle caste based discrimination and should ...

A newspaper advertisement published by the Government of India on Sunday, September 20, 2009, reads ‘Naxalites are nothing but coldblooded criminals’. This advertisement is part of the gov...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) that four-year-old Ibran suffers from Grade IV malnu...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that police and government officials have refused to look into a case of corruption and sponsored thuggery in a Varanasi village, w...

Dear all, I have narrated below a story from Bihar where RTI advocators succeeded in prevailing upon the State Information Commission to impose maximum penalty on erring officers of the district admin...

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is distressed to learn that human rights defender and freelance journalist Jiten Yumnam has been tortured by police in custody. We have also ob...

(18 September 2009) GENEVA – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Mr. Olivier De Schutter, argued that “there has not been enough structural change in response to th...