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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information that at least seven out of 16 families of farmers who were unfairly dismissed from work at a banana plantatio...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the alleged murder of a young student monk at the hands of those whose care he had been...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the four farmers illegally arrested in Columbio, Sultan Kudarat province, Mindanao on 2 September 2005 by combined elem...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from People’s Watch – Tamil Nadu, a human rights organistion in Tamil Nadu, India, regarding Tamil prisoners languishi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that according to the People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), as well as local media sources, s...

Dear friends, The head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) operations in Burma has stated that his organization is struggling to deliver food supplies to areas that are seriously affected by hunger a...

(UA-73-2004: THAILAND: Human rights defender faces preliminary decision in libel case on 21 June 2004 and UP-31 2004: THAILAND: Criminal Court decides to let libel suit against Ms Supinya Klangnarong ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wrote to you on 20 September 2005 detailing the police beating of Mr. Chheparuddin Mondal, which led to his death. We also commented that the pol...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) informed you on 22 September 2005 that a people’s tribunal hearing on starvation and government neglect will be held at Bankim Niwas in Jalangi,...

[RE: UA-112-2005: THAILAND: Murder of Thai monk following an environmental and land dispute with local influential business figures] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) earlier info...

Simon Wiesenthal, one of the most important contributors to the modern human rights movement, passed away on September 20, 2005. Although known mainly for his work in exposing perpetrators of the Nazi...

Seven doctors from the Negombo Hospital threatened to go on strike if they were not provided with free legal aid in a case before the Negombo Magistrate’s Court, where they had been summoned to appea...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two student activists were arbitrarily arrested, detained and tortured by the Kalimati police in Kathmandu on 13 an...

On 1 February 2005, King Gyanendra usurped all executive powers through a royal proclamation and imposed a “state of emergency” in the country that has been precipitously descending into b...

A people’s tribunal hearing on starvation and government neglect will be held at Bankim Niwas in Jalangi, Murshidabad, West Bengal on September 23 and 24, organized by the Howrah-based Banglar M...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has very disturbing news from local partner organization Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) that the police in Jalangi, Murshidabad District, W...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that 16-year-old P.W. Pushpakumara, a student of Gonapinuwela Saralankara School, Gonapinuwela, Galle District, Sri Lank...

[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 tra...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the possible negligence by a local court in General Santos City, Mindanao, Philippines,...

Dear friends, Further to our urgent appeal on the forced deportation of 232 Burmese migrant workers from Thailand, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that the group of 12 wh...