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Although a group of villagers–members of an indigenous community–in Cambodia’s northeastern province of Rattanakiri were told by local authorities that their lands were reserved for ...
Two recent reports in the Sri Lankan press (see Daily Mirror, 7th March 2006) have brought to light statements made by the Director General of the Commission of Bribery and Corruption and the Inspecto...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the torture case of Chamara Nimantha who was brutally tortured and had fabricated charges laid against...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information from a reliable source regarding the continued illegal detention of a labour leader, Crispin Beltran (73), follo...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding continuing human rights violations from Kerala, India. The local police continue to use torture and assault as...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed through staff of the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) that the trial of two police officers charged with rape in central Burma i...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a brutal torture of a young couple, namely Mr. D. Indika Wasantha and Mrs. Kumudini Malkanthi, by the Rathgama...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), Hong Kong, with the cooperation of the Institute of Asian Studies and Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University and the NGOs Coalition for the Pr...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-033-2006 March 6, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) SRI LANKA: Delays in courts – everyone’s karume The expression by a High Court jud...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Peoples Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) regarding the acute hunger and exploitation of villagers ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner, the Peoples Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), regarding human rights violations in...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source that 11 persons were brutally tortured and subsequently charged with fabricated charges following...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the killing of Allan Ibasan and his uncle Dante Salgado allegedly by military agents after their arrest on 31 January ...
[RE: UP-82-2004: The rape case pending for over three years in magistrate court, UP-16-2004: Trial drags on for rape victim as she awaits justice, UA-33-2001: 16 year-old girl raped but no proper inve...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding human rights violations in Varanasi, India, at the hands of local police officers who act with complete impuni...
[RE: UA-107-2005: THAILAND: Police lodge defamation charges against forensic scientist over “5 bullet suicide” case; UP-135-2005: THAILAND: Defamation case dropped but police insist on ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been following the case of a couple who were twice brutally assaulted in public by a gang led by a local council chief in Burma during Septem...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from KARAPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of Peoples Rights), a human rights organisation based in Manila, regarding ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets to inform you that 19-year-old activist, Audie Lucero, was found dead in Barangay (village) Capitangan, Abucay, Bataan on 13 February 200...
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