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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...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 31, 2006 AS-057-2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PHILIPPINES: Law needed to stop torture and systemic negligence in the Philippines The brutal police t...

[Re: HU-02-2006: River erosion continues to swallow lives and livelihoods in Jalangi, Murshidabad;  HU-09-2005: Government action inadequate in providing rehabilitation to displaced hunger victims ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Task Force against Torture (TFT) of Meherpur that following a misunderstanding between the villagers of Bhorat village a...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to strongly condemn the comments made by Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen who launched a scathing attack on a UN envoy who criticis...

At the end of his second mission as the Special Representative of the Secretary General on human rights in Cambodia (March 19-28, 2006), Professor Yash Ghai pointed to the stark fear present throughou...

Today, March 30, 2006 the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has nominated three outstanding widows of human rights defenders to receive jointly the prestigious 2006 , awarded by the May 18 Memorial...

In a news item published in the Island on March 29, 2006 outgoing chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, Radhika Coomaraswamy, confirmed that the terms of office of the Commission me...

Dear friends, In the past week there has been further information coming through many channels on the murder of Ko Thet Naing Oo in a Rangoon market on March 17 by government officers (UA-097-2006). T...