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SRI LANKA: Why GOSL fails internationally
Friday, 28 February 2014, 4:17 pm | AHRC
This is among the many important challenges to the "democratically elected" Government of "democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka" (GOSL). There may be various answers but let me offer five reasons why the present Government in the present frame of ... More >>
Nepal Justice System Permits Punishment of Chilren
Friday, 28 February 2014, 4:08 pm | AHRC
AHRC: The deficient justice system permits public punishment of children. More >>
India: A mandamus writ will not ensure safety
Friday, 21 February 2014, 12:20 pm | AHRC
The Supreme Court of India has directed the Union Government to take adequate measures to guarantee the safety of the people from the northeast, in the rest of the country against alleged racial discrimination. The court issued the directive while hearing ... More >>
Pakistan: The Long March under threat
Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 11:39 am | AHRC
Pakistan: The Long March in support of the families of victims of enforced disappearances is under threat and the government is preparing to halt the marchers by force More >>
Nepal: Woman attacked after mistaken rapist identification
Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 2:39 pm | AHRC
Nepal: Ensure the maximum sentence to perpetrators who beat a Dalit woman and a journalist and smeared them with black soot More >>
Pakistan: More than 100 dead bodies found in mass graves
Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 10:17 am | AHRC
Pakistan: More than 100 dead bodies from three mass graves were found in one district of Balochistan More >>
Nepal: Parents still await justice for poisoned son
Thursday, 23 January 2014, 10:52 am | AHRC
Nepal: Two years on, and the family of a young man who was poisoned to death have been waiting for justice More >>
India: Suffers further indignity from ineffective policing
Tuesday, 21 January 2014, 10:21 am | AHRC
The rape of a foreigner in the national capital, New Delhi, has placed India in disrepute, internationally. This incident comes just a year after a similar one shook the nation. The rape of a physiotherapy student had resulted in a nation-wide mass protest, provoked ... More >>
Pakistan: Women make amend while illegal verdicts are passed
Friday, 17 January 2014, 9:22 am | AHRC
Pakistan: While illegal and gender-biased verdicts are passed by a Jirga with the assent of the State, women make amend More >>
Pakistan: Development challenges for children
Thursday, 16 January 2014, 9:36 am | AHRC
The Pakistani nation has been united in pouring salutes and tributes to Aitzaz Hassan, who has sacrificed his life to save the lives of his fellow school children. The fifteen-years-old hero of the country had captured a suicide bomber targeting his ... More >>
Cambodia: Some thoughts for 2014
Wednesday, 15 January 2014, 4:07 pm | AHRC
Albert Einstein (1879-1955): "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." More >>
India: Human trafficking, not diplomatic impunity
Tuesday, 14 January 2014, 4:34 pm | AHRC
The debates so far, concerning the arrest of an Indian diplomat in the US, on charges of visa fraud, have omitted the nature of the crime the officer has committed. The crime alleged against the officer, is that of furnishing false documents to obtain ... More >>
Bangladesh: Attacks on non-Muslims must stop now, forever
Tuesday, 14 January 2014, 11:36 am | AHRC
Shame shadows Bangladesh again. Numerous attacks have been waged on the Hindu community across Bangladesh in the wake of the January 5th general 'election'. Houses and business establishments owned by Hindus have been targeted. Other ethnic and non-Muslim communities ... More >>
India: Paramilitary Still Squats in Chhattisgarh Schools
Monday, 13 January 2014, 1:06 pm | AHRC
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from CGNet Swara, an organization promoting community journalism in India, regarding the continuing occupation and use of educational institutions in Chhattisgarh by the Indian paramilitary. ... More >>
AHRC salutes a 16 year old boy who sacrificed life
Monday, 13 January 2014, 12:03 pm | AHRC
Pakistan: The AHRC salutes a 16 year old boy who sacrificed life to save 2000 students More >>
Philippines: Some comments on the murder trial of Tulawie
Friday, 10 January 2014, 9:22 am | AHRC
On December 18, 2013, the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 19 in Manila City, commenced the trial of Temogen "Cocoy" Tulawie, an indigenous activist, who is being prosecuted for fabricated charges of attempted murder , in connection with a bombing ... More >>
Bangladesh: Authoritarian obstinacy wins, democracy loses
Thursday, 9 January 2014, 8:51 am | AHRC
The Bangladesh Government and Election Commission have jointly staged their tragicomic ‘general election’ on January 5, 2014. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reflected pre-election realities and portended election day and post-election horrors ... More >>
Pakistan: Balochistan; 160 persons extra judicially killed
Wednesday, 8 January 2014, 5:25 pm | AHRC
Pakistan: Balochistan; 160 persons extra judicially killed, 510 disappeared and 50 decomposed bodies were found during 2013 More >>
India: Innocent children forced to live with convicts
Wednesday, 8 January 2014, 9:51 am | AHRC
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the National NGO Child Rights Coalition and local journalists about children housed in prison in Kokrajhar, Assam. The AHRC is concerned, as such an arrangement is denying children ... More >>
India: Absence of compassion & justice must not be the norm
Tuesday, 7 January 2014, 9:18 am | AHRC
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Punjab concerning the protest by fasting held by Mr. Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa, who ended his fast after 43 days, on 29 December 2013. Khalsa had commenced his protest at the Amb Singh Gurdwara ... More >>
