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Extended Introduction: Urgent Appeals, theory and practice

A need for dialogue

Many people across Asia are frustrated by the widespread lack of respect for human rights in their countries. Some may be unhappy about the limitations on the freedom of expression or restrictions on privacy, while some are affected by police brutality and military killings. Many others are frustrated with the absence of rights on labour issues, the environment, gender and the like. Yet the expression of this frustration tends to stay firmly in the private sphere. People complain among friends and family and within their social circles, but often on a low profile basis. This kind of public discourse is not usually an effective measure of the situation in a country because it is so hard to monitor. Though the media may cover the issues in a broad manner they rarely broadcast the private fears and anxieties of the average person. And along with censorship – a common blight in Asia – there is also often a conscious attempt in the media to reflect a positive or at least sober mood at home, where expressions of domestic malcontent are discouraged as unfashionably unpatriotic. Talking about issues like torture is rarely encouraged in the public realm. There may also be unwritten, possibly unconscious social taboos that stop the public reflection of private grievances. Where authoritarian control is tight, sophisticated strategies are put into play by equally sophisticated media practices to keep complaints out of the public space, sometimes very subtly. In other places an inner consensus is influenced by the privileged section of a society, which can control social expression of those less fortunate. Moral and ethical qualms can also be an obstacle. In this way, causes for complaint go unaddressed, un-discussed and unresolved and oppression in its many forms, self perpetuates. For any action to arise out of private frustration, people need ways to get these issues into the public sphere.

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UPDATE (Bangladesh): Probe Commissions inaction into the Chapainawabganj conflict

Urgent Appeal Update | Bangladesh | | February 26, 2006

[RE: UA-013-2006: BANGLADESH: Two people killed and thirty-five injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj district; UA-041-2006: BANGLADESH: Eight people killed and at least one hundred injured by pol...

INDIA: Murder, assault, torture, failure of rule of law and intimidation

Urgent Appeal Case | India | | February 24, 2006

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding continuing human rights violations in Manipur, India. The local police and the army under the cover of the dra...

INDIA: Slavery flourishing under police protection in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh State

Urgent Appeal Case | India | | February 24, 2006

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from our local partner, the Peoples Vigilance Committee for Human Rights (PVCHR), about bonded labour effectively s...

UPDATE (India): Girls forced into prostitution still being victimized in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Urgent Appeal Update | India | | February 23, 2006

[RE: UP-131-2005: INDIA: Protection required for girls released from prostitution and for the human rights defenders who sought to help them; UA- 190 -2005: INDIA: Demand guarantees of proper treatmen...

INDIA: Yet another attack on human rights activist in Belwa village, Uttar Pradesh

Urgent Appeal Case | India | | February 22, 2006

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding an attack on Mr. Issuk Ali, a human rights activist associated with the Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on ...

INDIA: Local police assault an innocent person; force him to carry human excreta and register a false case against him

Urgent Appeal Case | India | | February 22, 2006

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the assault of an innocent person by the local police from Maleshwaramangalam, Thrissur District, Kerala state...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Court trivialises assault by police officer on a woman by throwing her case out from court by a nonsensical judgment

Urgent Appeal Update | Sri Lanka | | February 22, 2006

Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the High Court of Kalutara in Sri Lanka has acquitted the police officers who assaulted a woman in public. To acquit the ac...

BANGLADESH: opposition political activists beaten and arrested by the police during demonstrations and a country-wide strike

Urgent Appeal Case | Bangladesh | | February 22, 2006

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that the police have beaten a number of political activists and demonstrators during a nationwide dawn-to-dusk strike and peace...

BURMA: Two villagers jailed for reporting extortion

Urgent Appeal Case | Burma (Myanmar) | | February 22, 2006

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Yoma 3 news service (Thailand) and other sources that two villagers in the Irrawaddy Delta region of Burma have...

PHILIPPINES: Peasant leader killed while sleeping at his house in Surigao del Sur, Mindanao

Urgent Appeal Case | Philippines | | February 22, 2006

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that a peasant leader of the Kapunungan sa mga Mag-uuma sa Surigao Sur (KAMASS) (Organization of Peasants in Surigao Sur) ha...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Threats to 14-year-old boy and his family to withdraw complaint of brutal assault by teacher

Urgent Appeal Update | Sri Lanka | | February 21, 2006

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of a 14-year-old boy, Manoj Tillakaratne, who was brutally assaulted by his physical training...

PHILIPPINES: Threats against activists; Government’s inaction to afford security and protection

Urgent Appeal Case | Philippines | | February 20, 2006

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you that three human rights activists in Baguio City, Luzon are facing serious threats on their lives. They are Windel Bolinge...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Supreme Court granted to leave to proceed in a torture case for the compensation filed by S.A. Akila Chaturanga

Urgent Appeal Update | Sri Lanka | | February 19, 2006

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding a torture victim S.A. Akila Chaturanga who was arbitrarily tortured by the Horana police on the allega...

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Urgent Appeals

Extended Introduction: Urgent Appeals, theory and practice

A need for dialogue

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Probe Commissions inaction into the Chapainawabganj conflict

INDIA: Murder, assault, torture, failure of rule of law and intimidation

INDIA: Slavery flourishing under police protection in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh State

UPDATE (India): Girls forced into prostitution still being victimized in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

INDIA: Yet another attack on human rights activist in Belwa village, Uttar Pradesh

INDIA: Local police assault an innocent person; force him to carry human excreta and register a false case against him

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Court trivialises assault by police officer on a woman by throwing her case out from court by a nonsensical judgment

BANGLADESH: opposition political activists beaten and arrested by the police during demonstrations and a country-wide strike

BURMA: Two villagers jailed for reporting extortion

PHILIPPINES: Peasant leader killed while sleeping at his house in Surigao del Sur, Mindanao

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Threats to 14-year-old boy and his family to withdraw complaint of brutal assault by teacher

PHILIPPINES: Threats against activists; Government’s inaction to afford security and protection

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Supreme Court granted to leave to proceed in a torture case for the compensation filed by S.A. Akila Chaturanga

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Torture victim Tissa Kumara wins fundamental rights application at the Supreme Court

UPDATE (Burma): Police harass and threaten assault victim and family

UPDATE (Burma): Case of jailed tuition teacher to go to Supreme Court

INDIA: Two peaceful protestors on hunger strike chained to hospital beds

NEPAL: Human rights defenders assaulted by personnel from the Royal Nepalese Army

UPDATE (Thailand): Protection withdrawn from monk who continues to receive death threats

INDONESIA: President refuses to grant clemency to Brazilian while two Australian nationals are sentenced to death

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