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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, regarding a police attack on a human rights defender, Mr Gopen S...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 11, 2005 AS-39-2005 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission So where are Thailand’s judicial bodies? Speaking last Friday, April 8, the head of Thailand̵...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the living conditions of adivasis (tribal people) employed as sugarcane cutters at the Bardoli Sugar Factory i...
In an announcement this week, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand stated that the proposed reform of some hundreds of the countrys laws would concentrate on those that violate its 1997 Con...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a torture victim, R. Don Nawaratne Bandara, refused to give his statement in the Panadura Magistrate Court fearing ...
[RE: UP-29-2005: PHILIPPINES: Two more leaders from the Bayan Muna party are killed in Baguio and Tacloban City, UA-34-2005: Killing of a labor rights activist for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in...
The address to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights by the U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan this April 7 is a wake-up call to the global human rights movement. This speech marks a moment in ...
Recent reports that the execution of three Sri Lankan men in Saudi Arabia are to be carried out in the coming days has led the Asian Human Rights Commission to inquire into this matter with much urgen...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to draw your attention to a particularly disturbing case involving a Mrs Nisha Neupane from Prithvi Nagar, Chitwan, who was arrested by Se...
[RE: UP-38-2005: SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Please send a letter to the King of Saudi Arabia urging his intervention to commute the death sentence of three Sri Lankans; UP-34-2005: Death sentence for t...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the chief organiser of the branch of the Progressive Union in G.P. Garments (Pvt) Ltd in the Export Processing Zone...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received disturbing information regarding the assault of a police constable by several other personnel at a police post in Andiyagala on 3 Fe...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the death of an Under Trial Prisoner (UTP) due to lack of ...
[RE: UA-49-2005: SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Death sentence to migrant workers requires urgent intervention by the Sri Lankan government; UP-34-2005: Death sentence for three migrant workers requires ur...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the complete disregard for a court orders by the Beldanga ...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) notes that the Government and of Sri Lanka and, more specifically, its foreign ministry is taking a very passive role in defending the rights and saving the li...
[Re: UA-143-2004: THAILAND: At least 84 people killed in Southern Thailand on 26 October 2004; UP-65-2004: THAILAND: A list of the victims of the mass killing in Narathiwat province; Immediate interna...
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the assault and illegal detention of a hotel owner and cashier by five police officers....
Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the assault and abuse of two adivasis by the upper caste of Nandav village, Gujarat, In...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned to hear that even though Partha Majumder disappeared on 5 September 1997 and his family has been fighting a battle to ensure...
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