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Philippines: Memories Of War And An Historic Peace
Tuesday, 15 April 2014, 11:19 am | AHRC
An article by the Asian Human Rights Council. More >>
Response by AHRC to Al Jazeera's questions on massacre
Tuesday, 15 April 2014, 11:12 am | AHRC
On April 12, Al Jazeera broadcasted a report, titled: "Philippine farmers fight for land rights" indicating that none of those involved in the massacre of farmers in Hacienda Luisita, owned by the family of current President Benigno Aquino III, have ... More >>
Acid Violence - Physical, Psychological, & Social Scars
Thursday, 27 March 2014, 11:50 am | AHRC
Acid attack is a heinous form of violence, one that has instantaneous and lifelong consequences for victims and survivors. Acid violence constitutes a perennial rights violation issue for women in several Asian countries such as India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Legalising prostitution -- the Wisdom of the UN?
Wednesday, 26 March 2014, 11:19 am | AHRC
According to a research, modern day trafficking, aka slavery is a $32 billion annual industry and according to the U.N. about 2.5 million people around the world are ensnared in the web of human trafficking at any given time. More >>
Sri Lanka: Ethics of an Ethnic War
Tuesday, 25 March 2014, 11:35 am | AHRC
Although the ethnic war between the Tamil LTTE and the Sinhalese forces of the Sri Lankan government ended in May 2009, the ethics of the conflict is still current. It is being discussed in institutions in Geneva, USA, Canada, UK, EU and many other ... More >>
Unlimited Punishment For Holding Different Thoughts or Ideas
Tuesday, 25 March 2014, 11:31 am | AHRC
It is widely reported that Acts relating to national security created in various names throughout in Asia have been used, not to protect national security per se, but to oppress persons holding different ideas, or opinions, or critical of policies ... More >>
Relief awarded only after long battle by acid attack victim
Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 11:57 am | AHRC
On January 17, 2014, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) issued an urgent appeal for immediate intervention and financial assistance to a survivor of acid attack in the Indian state of Assam as per the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court of ... More >>
Arrest in Sri Lanka of Rev. Fr. Proveen and Ruki Fernando
Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 11:29 am | AHRC
We the Catholics of the entire Roman Catholic Diocese of Jaffna, comprising of Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu and Jaffna Districts are sad and perturbed to know from the media that Reverend Father Proveen Mahesan, resident at Amathipuram, an Oblate settlement and ... More >>
WORLD: Picked up, killed and dumped
Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 11:26 am | AHRC
The following article appeared as the editorial of the latest issue of ‘Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives’, a bi-monthly magazine published by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), based in Hong Kong and the Danish Institute Against Torture ... More >>
South Asia and the Gulf lead rising trend in arms imports
Tuesday, 18 March 2014, 11:57 am | AHRC
India's arms imports are now almost 3 times as high as those of the second and third largest arms importers - China and Pakistan - according to new data on international arms transfers published today by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ... More >>
Cambodia: Hun Sen has a choice. What will he choose?
Tuesday, 18 March 2014, 11:54 am | AHRC
Sitting Prime Minister Hun Sen sees his iron fisted rule of 29 years threatened. Cambodians in the country and Cambodian expatriates the world overhave expressed dissatisfaction with the status quo and have demanded change. More >>
Preliminary Analysis of Candidates Announced by INC and BJP
Tuesday, 18 March 2014, 11:48 am | AHRC
The major parties, Indian National Congress (INC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced their candidates for Lok Sabha, 2014 recently. More >>
Pakistan Shows Apathy Towards Violence
Friday, 14 March 2014, 10:54 am | AHRC
Dowry system and related violence is a product of patriarchy that in turn needs to be understood, unloaded and unpacked through gender lens. If there is a formula for defining gender it should be sexes + class +ethnicity. This implies that gender is ... More >>
Pakistan: Abolish the Council of Islamic Ideology
Wednesday, 12 March 2014, 11:28 am | AHRC
In its latest direct onslaught on the women rights, Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has declared laws regarding second marriage of a man in the presence of first wife, against religious principles. More >>
Australian academics voice concern for missing Somchai
Friday, 7 March 2014, 11:17 am | AHRC
Academics of the Australian National University on Thursday submitted a letter to the diplomatic mission of Thailand in Canberra marking the tenth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Thai human rights lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit. More >>
MPs declared Election Expenses of less than 50\%
Thursday, 6 March 2014, 2:22 pm | AHRC
The government cleared a proposal of the Election Commission recently to raise the expenditure limits for Lok Sabha elections from Rs 40 lakh to Rs 70 lakh for each Lok Sabha constituency in bigger states like Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, ... More >>
NEPAL: There is always a price to pay
Thursday, 6 March 2014, 11:52 am | AHRC
Last week the U.S. Embassy denied entry permits to Nepalese police officers as they have been stationed at police stations that have alleged track records of human rights violations during the insurgency and in other periods. More >>
PAKISTAN: Disappearances-no end in sight
Thursday, 6 March 2014, 11:13 am | AHRC
On Feb 26, 2013, the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) published its report on Pakistan, following its visit to the country in September 2012. The report expressed concern at the continuing practice of enforced disappearances ... More >>
Year After Majoni's Disappearance, Still No Investigation
Thursday, 6 March 2014, 11:10 am | AHRC
xOn 10 February, 2013 a young writer and teacher, Ms. Majoni Das working at a private educational institute in the town of Jorhat, located in the eastern Indian state of Assam, went missing. Police have failed to investigate. More >>
Individualising traditional values fails to break poverty
Tuesday, 4 March 2014, 11:46 am | AHRC
A mother and her two daughters were found dead in Seoul on February 26. According to the media, they committed suicide due to poverty. This incident raised doubts on whether the national basic livelihood security system is appropriate to protect ... More >>
