Urgent Appeals

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of  yet another honour killing case in Shikarpur District, Sindh Province, Pakistan. According to the information recei...

[RE: UA-81-2005: BURMA: Brothers jailed and beaten for complaining about police assault over tattoo; UP-65-2005: BURMA: Successful conviction of police officer but one victim remains in jail] Dear fri...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding two murders and the subsequent violence that took place in Kirioya, Polonnaruwa district on 17 May 2005. It wa...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the torture and death of a man in Kollam District, Kerala, India. Mr. Rajendran (37) was in ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has heard a report through the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) radio service that a woman in western Burma was raped by a police officer, after w...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation in West Bengal, about the death of a young student who received injuries in a cl...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the murder of a young woman, about 24 years of age, in Ghazipur district, Uttar Pradesh, at ...

Dear friends, According to new information received by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), villagers in Taunggut Township, Arakan state, Burma have lodged a new complaint with the International ...

[UP-29-2005: Two more leaders from the Bayan Muna party are killed in Baguio and Tacloban City, UP-59-2005: Another human rights activist killed in Visayas, UP-61-2005: Wounded victim in activist shoo...

[UA-29-2003: MALAYSIA: Trial drags on and on for seven suspended university students; UP-25-2003: MALAYSIA: Media Statement on the “ISA 7” from the Aliran Executive Committee; UP-28-2003: ...

[RE: UA-112-2004: BURMA: Complaints against forced labour blocked and victims punished issued on 3 September 2004; UP-11-2005: BURMA: Four officials sentenced to prison for forced labour in Kawmhu Tow...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a reliable source regarding the death of a 53-year-old man after allegedly being severely and repeatedly tortured w...

[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 t...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received further information from the Yoma-3 news service, Thailand about a young man and his cousin (earlier reported as brother) who were j...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the torture and illegal detention of a man at the Bapunagar police station in Ahmedabad City...

SRI LANKA: Prescribing of Western medicines by Ayurvedic practitioner; over prescribing of medicines; medical neglect ———————————̵...

[UA-67-2005: A woman’s healthy leg was amputated at the Negombo General Hospital due to mistaken identity; UP-51-2005: No investigation has yet been conducted into the mistaken amputation of a w...

UA-87-2005: PHILIPPINES: Incidents of death, torture, disappearance and displacement of civilians during a military operation PHILIPPINES: Death resulting from denial of immediate medical attention; T...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the arrest of three high profile union leaders in South Korea. According to the information we have received, Mr. Ahn Bye...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the alleged assault of a 10-year-old pupil by a schoolteacher on 12 May 2005 for not giving a satisfactory ans...