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[RE: UP-58-2005: SINGAPORE: Urgent intervention required for prisoner on death row who faces hanging in less than two days; FA-14-2005: [UPDATE] Singapore: Urgent intervention required for prisoner on...
[UA-34-2005 Killing of a labor rights activist for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in Tarlac City; UP-26-2005 Priest supporting for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in La Paz, Tarlac killed and two...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of a man while in police custody at the Rakwana Police Station, Sri Lanka. Helwala Langachcharige Su...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Yoma-3 news service, Thailand that a young man and his brother were jailed in Burma after attempting to complai...
The increase in death threats and intimidation to activists and journalists in Sri Lanka are alarming. In particular, there is concern that the situation may degenerate into that similar to the terror...
The agreement this April to establish a United Nations monitoring mission in Nepal, which was endorsed in a resolution passed at the 61st Session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights (E/CN.4/2005/L....
In a landmark judgment, the U.N. Human Rights Committee has held that Sri Lanka, as a state party to the Optional Protocol of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, violated one of ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the death of a woman, Shiroma Doreen Fernando (41), who died due to a transfusion with the incorrect blood typ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, regarding a lawyer who first failed his client and then allegedl...
Dear friends, We are forwarding you the latest information we have received from Think Centre in Singapore regarding the death penalty to Mr Shanmugm Murugesu, a Singaporean father of two. Mr Murugesu...
Within the last two weeks alone, the Asian Human Rights Commission has reported on three cases of alleged gross medical negligence in Sri Lanka. First, a 48-year-old mother alleged that her healthy le...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP)-Mindanao regarding the illegal arrest and torture of four farmers by...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to inform you about the continued inaction and disregard by the authorities of Surat, Gujarat, India in investigating and prosecuting the ...
[Re: UP-51-2005: SRI LANKA: No investigation has yet been conducted into the mistaken amputation of a woman’s leg, UA-67-2005: A woman’s healthy leg was amputated at the Negombo General Ho...
[Re: UA- 50 -2005: INDIA: Three and a half year wait for justice for the brutal murder of an Adivasi (tribal person) by a forest official in Gujarat] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (A...
Dear _________, Re: INDIA: Murdered adivasi’s family lives in starvation while no action taken regarding his death Name of the victim: Manishbhai Motibhai Vasava, age 30, resident of Katiskuva ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is glad to inform you that the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) of the Philippines has issued an order to provide protection a...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) refers to our urgent appeal issued on 22 April 2005 regarding the case of Ms. Citthi Naseera (48) who suffered the amputation of a healthy limb d...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Yoma-3 news service, Thailand about the worsening health and family conditions of a villager jailed illegally f...
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