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NEPAL: Mental health and Human Rights
Saturday, 8 March 2014, 12:01 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Mental health and well-being are fundamental to our collective and individual ability as humans to think, emote, interact with each other, earn a living and enjoy life. If there is discrepancy or disruption in mental well-being, which is must for an ... More >>
Women's Leadership in Peace and Security: an Insecure Agenda
Saturday, 8 March 2014, 11:10 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
One of the rare positive impacts of armed conflict on gender relations is the increased movement, mobility and opportunities for women in political spaces for leadership in constructing and reconstructing peace in the society during conflict and post ... More >>
Danger to political freedom following attack on historian
Saturday, 15 February 2014, 8:56 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
On 12 February 2014, assailants fired repeated gunshots and threw homemade bombs at the home and car of Professor Somsak Jeamteerasakul, a history professor at Thammasat University and outspoken political and cultural critic. The attack took place during ... More >>
Asian Human Rights Commission - Urgent Appeals
Saturday, 15 February 2014, 8:45 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding a brutal attack causing grievous injury and bodily harm to a senior journalist, Mr. Aribam Chaoba Sharma of the Imphal Free Press. It is reported that the Commander of a team ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Sovereignty – Is it a Defence to cover up?
Saturday, 25 January 2014, 4:37 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The term sovereignty is frequently confronted with hostile claims. Human Right and Anti Corruption Movements are often challenged by various groups with different notions and ideologies on sovereignty. The purpose of this brief article is to examine some ... More >>
WORLD: Obama’s Option -- Lawlessness or the Rule of Law
Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 9:49 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
As Edward Snowden has continued to slowly release more information about the widespread intelligence gathering techniques of the National Security Agency (NSA), there have been more calls for him to be granted an amnesty and further calls for placing limits ... More >>
Police still getting away with murder in Myanmar
Saturday, 18 January 2014, 2:32 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Despite the political and social changes in Burma (Myanmar) of the last two years, police and soldiers continue to enjoy impunity for the murder and torture of civilians. Despite the constant efforts of the families of victims to obtain justice, the military ... More >>
AHRC Urgent Appeals
Friday, 17 January 2014, 10:12 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Women in Governance ( WinG-Assam), a network of women activists in Assam, India, regarding the acid attack on two young girls aged 18 and 12 years on 6 November 2013 at around 10-30 P.M. at ... More >>
INDIA: New laws to protect women bring no hope to victims
Monday, 13 January 2014, 8:21 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
New laws to protect women bring no hope to victims of sexual violence in Assam exclaimed a shocked panel of Jury members at the Public hearing on sexual violence More >>
Social injustice behind the practice of dowry
Saturday, 11 January 2014, 4:14 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Each year, in South Asian communities, thousands of young brides lose their lives over dowry disputes. They are burnt, killed or maimed by husbands and in-laws whose material demands remain unfulfilled. Religions including Islam have always been interpreted ... More >>
Poet in search of justice
Wednesday, 8 January 2014, 8:04 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The true or genuine creative writer of the calibre of a sensitive poet writes not for the entire public but for a self expression of some of his intimate feelings and experiences for one's sake. Perhaps he or she writes for a particular reason, ... More >>
Badurueliya Hospital to reopen after shutdown : Sri Lanka
Saturday, 28 December 2013, 8:46 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
In the early morning of December 27, the authorities addressed a large crowd of people protesting outside Badureliya District Hospital. They had come to support a Member of Parliament who was staging a hunger strike demanding the reopening of the hospital. ... More >>
Saudi Arabia: Ahmadis Persecuted In The Kingdom
Saturday, 28 December 2013, 7:40 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to forward this statement regarding persons who chose to join the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam and the treatment they received thereafter. More >>
CAMBODIA: Think, act, and become
Saturday, 21 December 2013, 11:46 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Dr. Gaffar Peang-Meth is retired from the University of Guam, where he taught political science for 13 years. He currently lives in the United States. More >>
PAKISTAN: Break the barriers and speak out
Saturday, 21 December 2013, 11:16 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The open debate about the denial of equality between men and women may be seen as historically recent. However, the reality of gender imbalance has been a factual data for centuries and unfortunately, when we look at countries like Pakistan, the ... More >>
An interview with Jeremy Bally, Pedalling for Papua campaign
Saturday, 21 December 2013, 11:14 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
An interview with Jeremy Bally, Pedalling for Papua campaigner, published by the Asian Human Rights Commission More >>
The AHRC condoles the death of Mr. Khurshid Anwar
Saturday, 21 December 2013, 11:03 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
reputed for his life-long struggle for upholding the rights and dignity of the downtrodden, not only in India but the whole subcontinent. Unable to cope with the mental torture of relentless social media trial over a case of an alleged rape which was never taken ... More >>
Tribunal on the Functioning of Human Rights Commission
Wednesday, 18 December 2013, 4:12 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
A Statement from Independent People's Tribunal on the Functioning of National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi, India forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) More >>
Sri Lanka: Catholic Bishops on independence of judiciary
Wednesday, 18 December 2013, 9:07 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Following is an extract from the Pastoral Letter of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Sri Lanka, entitled 'Towards Reconciliation and Rebuilding of the Nation'. More >>
NEPAL: Adhikari Couple in Critical Condition
Saturday, 14 December 2013, 8:48 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The health of Mr. Nanda Prasad Adhikari and Mrs. Ganga Maya Adhikari, parents to a murdered son, Krishna Prasad Adhikari, is deteriorating rapidly. According to doctors at Bir Hospital, having resumed their hunger strike from their hospital beds, the ... More >>
