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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...
As the Sixty-first Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is taking place in Geneva, we would like to draw attention to the colossal absence of human rights in three countries in the Asia ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the murder of an adivasi by an Indian Forest Department staff member on 20 September 20...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by yet another honor killing case from Shikarpur District, Sindh Province, Pakistan. According to the information received, ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the incredibly urgent situation of three Sri Lankan migrant workers in Saudi Arabia currently facing d...
[RE: UA-39-2003: Torture of 17-year-old boy; UP-31-2003: Update on torture of 17-year-old boy, Chamila Bandara, by Ankumbura police; UP-38-2003: The security of the torture victim and his mother is se...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the arrest of Garuda pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, in relation to the death of human rights activist Mu...
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