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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the forced eviction of hundreds of villagers and the destruction and burning of houses in Kontu Village, Muna ...
Serious doubts and suspicions have arisen about the investigation into the attempted arson of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) of Sri Lanka offices in Colombo, on October 11, 2005. Despite significan...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the torture of a man by police personnel from the Meegahawatte Police Station of the Kelaniy...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a woman was arrested, assaulted and intimidated by the Lalbag police after they illegally raider her house. The police arr...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation working in West Bengal, regarding the alleged murder of a man and the unsuccessf...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a sixty-year-old man was arbitrarily arrested and detained, then tortured by the Godakawela police on 30 October 2005. The...
[RE: FA-06-2004: THAILAND: A human rights lawyer Mr. Somchai Neelaphaijit missing UP-20-2005: THAILAND: Human rights lawyer still missing after nearly one year; Action needed today to have case tran...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the arrest, torture and subsequent death of a handicapped man in police custody at Harora po...
[Re: FA-16-2004: Forcible disappearance of a young man in Davao City; UP-103-2005: A 13-year-old daughter of a disappeared man in Davao City suffers trauma; UP-134-2005: Social welfare department fail...
On 5 December 2005, activist Cathy Alcantara was killed by unidentified armed men in Abucay, Bataan province, Luzon, Philippines. Alcantara, a mother of two children and the wife of a farmers organi...
[RE: UA-214-2005: PAKISTAN: Desecration and destruction of churches and Christian property after blasphemy allegations at Sangla Hills, Pakistan; UP-148-2005: PAKISTAN: Tensions continue to simmer in ...
[RE: UA-30-2005: Attempt on the life of human rights advocate and his wife in Abuyog, Leyte, Philippines; UA-34-2005: Killing of a labor rights activist for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in Tarlac...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by another police raid on the free media in Nepal. According to the information received from INSEC, the human rights organis...
Dear Ms Arbour, RE: THAILAND MUST RATIFY THE CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE On this international Human Rights Day, December 10, 2005, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) calls upon you to make it a ...
Dear Ms. Arbour, Re: Sri Lanka’s refusal to implement recommendations made by the Human Rights Committee and the Committee against Torture The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to brin...
Dear Ms. Arbour, Re: The urgent need for effective laws against torture, witness protection, and end to the increasing occurrence of extra-judicial killings in the Philippines On the occasion of the D...
Dear Ms. Arbour, Re: Nepal – without a Parliament and laws on torture and forced disappearance, the Office of the OHCHR in Nepal cannot fulfil its work for human rights On the occasion of the De...
Dear Ms. Arbour, Re: Human rights trailing democracy in the Republic of Korea – legislation and labour rights concerns and the violent repression of demonstrations On the occasion of the Decembe...
Dear Ms. Arbour, Re: Indonesia – the sham trial of human rights defender Munir Said Thalib highlights the need for judicial and legal system reform On this Human Rights Day, the Asian Human Righ...
Dear Ms. Arbour, Re: India – Constitutional promises and international obligations remain empty rhetoric The systemic failure of the justice dispensation system in India is marring the state of ...
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