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On March 29 and 30 Prime Minister Hun Sen mounted successive attacks on the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for human rights in Cambodia, Professor Yash Ghai. The special representa...

PHILIPPINES: Torture; unfair labour practices; violence against women; excessive use of force in dispersal of protest; denial of medical treatment; arbitrary use of authority by police; possible delay...

Dear friends, On 12 March 2006, at about 6pm, an argument ensued between Sameera Harischandra and friends and four persons who were posing as ‘cattle traders’. After some time the four persons aligh...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the further threat and intimidation directed at torture victim, A.P. Jayaweera Sandanayake to withdraw...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes with information regarding police in Nepal having detained more than 100 people for planning to defy a ban on public rallies in the capita...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the imminent execution of Fabianus Tibo (60), Dominggus Da Silva (42) and Don Marinus Riwu (48), who were charged with in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that another female activist was killed while her husband was wounded in a shooting on 3 April 2006 in Candijay, Bohol. Act...

[RE: UP-068-2006: BANGLADESH: Four alleged perpetrators of rape walk free due to their political influence and power; UA-018-2006: BANGLADESH: Gang rape of a minority woman in Bagerhat district] ̵...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has come to learn of a case involving the alleged torture and extra-judicial killing of a father and son by the Weligama Police. Despite years ha...

SRI LANKA: Political undermining of the Human Rights Commission; absence of leadership within the Human Rights Commission; government control; failure to implement the 17th Amendment ——...

[RE: UA-082-2006: PHILIPPINES: Brutal torture of 11 persons and subsequent filing of fabricated charges against them; UP-063-2006: PHILIPPINES: Lawyers for 11 torture victims file motion to withdraw c...

BANGLADESH: Rape; violence against woman; unfair prosecution for trial; inadequate action by authorities; threat and intimidation; collapse of rule of law ——————...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been following the developments regarding the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRC) after its Commissioners’ terms of office ended on April 3, 2...

A report in today’s Daily Mirror newspaper of April 3 states that Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa “is exploring the possibility of setting up independent commissions under the 17th Amend...

Speaking at the induction of the President Elect of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka during its 32nd Annual Convocation, the Chief Justice of Sri Lanka warned that the judiciary could become a laughin...

PHILIPPINES: Torture; illegal arrest and detention; denial of victims for adequate medical and trauma treatment; detention of minors together with adults; failure to enact an enabling law against tort...

[RE: UA-097-2006: BURMA: Municipal officers and firefighters beat man to death then police charge his friends; UP-060-2006: BURMA: Innocent people blamed for killing of Thet Naing Oo; witnesses remain...

[RE: UP-151-2005: SRI LANKA: Rape victim and her family’s safety feared following the release of five suspects on bail; UA-183-2005: Rape of a female passenger by the airport officers inside of the B...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is happy to inform you that Mr. Yun Il-kwan, the 36-year-old Korean farmer and last anti-WTO protester facing prosecution, was acquitted by the F...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a Thai magazine has been accused of causing “public disorder and affecting moral standards” by publishi...