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[Re: UA-74-2005: Trial of three men yet to begin after three years; UP-78-2005: Delay in trial due to possible neglect by the court and prosecutor] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHR...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing news from Masum of the death of a villager who committed suicide due to poverty and starvation in West Bengal on August ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the forced deportation of 232 Burmese migrant workers from Daechapanich fishing net factory in the Khon Kaen province in ...

[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...

[RE: UA-34-2005: Killing of a labor rights activist for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in Tarlac City; UA-30-2005: Attempt on the life of human rights advocate and his wife in Abuyog, Leyte, Philip...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing news of the starvation death of a 65 year-old woman in Sonbhadra, Uttar-Pradesh. Punvasia, an elderly tribal woman (adiva...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the suspicious death of a man following his being taken into custody by security forces. Chandra Bahadur Basnet, alias Ma...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the discrimination of a person belonging to the Schedules Caste, vying for the post of a lec...

(Re: UG-04-2005: INDIA: Poor condition of the Basirhat Hospital morgue represents the collapse of post mortem system in West Bengal, AG-01-2004: INDIA: AHRC letter to the President of India regarding ...

The killing of a renowned politician and some 37 of his supporters in a mountain hideout by the Pakistan military on August 26 has thrown the country headlong towards a catastrophe that can only be av...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the illegal arrest and torture of a school boy by the Pannala Police on 3 August 2005. Mohommed Lufrash was detained by t...

Public pressure and the courageous stand taken by Sri Lanka’s Commissioner of Elections have made certain that the next presidential elections will be held this year; President Kumaratunga’...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the rape of a young woman who was subsequently sold in a public auction on 20 August 2005 in...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the present condition of the family of Datu Abdullah Sabdura Salah whose  forcibly disappearance was ...

[RE: UP-03-2005: SRI LANKA: Further threat to the life of torture victim Channa Prasanna Fernando, UP-01-2005: SRI LANKA: Police officers interdicted regarding three torture cases of Gerald Perera, La...

[RE: UA-23-2002: Sign petition for attorney general to bring justice to May 1998 riot victims; UP-81-2005: INDONESIA: Attorney General Refuses to investigate gross violations of human rights that were...

Media Release on 18 August 2005 The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka is deeply concerned to note the dramatic increase in child recruitment by the LTTE reported from our offices in the North and E...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Mindanao People’s Caucus (MPC), a coalition of human rights groups in Mindanao, regarding the threat of s...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the rape of a 14-year-old girl in Galagedara, Sri Lanka on 29 July 2005. After the girl’s father reported th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) in Luzon that a person who was illegally arrested, detained and ...