Urgent Appeals

[RE: UA-258-2006: PAKISTAN: Attempted rape of a girl by the Karachi university staff and continuous impunity of the perpetrators due to protection of Pakistan Rangers; UP-159-2006: PAKISTAN: Denial of...

Dear friends, The Asian Legal Resource Centre has together with the Working Group on Justice for Peace (Thailand) have submitted details to the United Nations of five more persons who have disappeared...

[RE: UA-22-2004: NEPAL: Three young persons shot dead by security personnel and a girl among the victims was gang-raped before being killed in Pokahari Chauri-4, Kavre District and UP-136-2005: NEPAL:...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal regarding two cases which depicts how the local police fails to p...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of yet another alleged forced disappearance of a 17 year-old boy named Thivarthan Murukesu Jebichandran by Sri Lanka’s military on 9...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deeply regrets to inform you that three more activists have been killed in separate incidents in the Philippines on August 20, 22 and 24. Accordi...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received detailed information about the case of a young man in Burma who has been jailed without evidence or fair trial, allegedly for sellin...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), through its sister organisation, has submitted details to the United Nations of 12 persons who have allegedly been abducted by the security forc...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you about the alleged brutal torture of a 50 year-old farmer by allegedly intoxicated Kekirawa police officers on 24 August 2006...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received shocking information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal that a person was illegally taken into custody from his ...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Pakistan auth...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, we also encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to the Sri Lanka...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, we also encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to the Cambodian...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Philippine au...

Dear friends, The case against Mahesh Ranaweera (12) was finally concluded 17 August 2006 at the Panwila Magistrates Court. Mahesh had been illegally arrested and detained by the Wattwgama police afte...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, we also encourage you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to the Philippin...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information that the 21 union members who were violently dispersed, six of whom were seriously wounded, and were subsequentl...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “send letter” button. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Indones...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning the harassment of a bus driver by members of the police, which illustrates the breakdown of the rule of law, ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Human Rights Alert (HRA), a local human rights organization based in Manipur that two human rights activists were illegally arres...