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Pakistan: Minimize Sexual Violence Against Women
Friday, 20 September 2013, 4:09 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Pakistan: Strict Yet Victim-friendly Legal Mechanisms Are Required to Minimize Sexual Violence Against Women and Children More >>
Criminal Justice Reform to Check Authoritarianism
Wednesday, 18 September 2013, 12:28 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The ALRC, Odhikar and its partners agrees with the opinion of Mr. Alfred de Zayas, the UN Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order. He notes that human rights defenders today face exceptional challenges, particularly ... More >>
SRI LANKA: 'Judgeitis' -- disease of the judges
Friday, 13 September 2013, 3:59 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Guardian reported on September 11 that Lord Carlisle has argued for an inspectorate of judges which could deal with problems before they lead to complaints. Meanwhile new regulations dealing with complaints against judges come into force at the beginning ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Features of the increasing authoritarianism
Tuesday, 10 September 2013, 11:01 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
In her media statement from Colombo on 31 August 2013, Dr. Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said: "I am deeply concerned that Sri Lanka, despite the opportunity provided by the end of the war to construct a new ... More >>
Daughter of torture victim writes about her ailing father
Saturday, 7 September 2013, 1:33 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
(Hong Kong, September 6, 2013) Sylvia Patricia Sarmiento, daughter of torture victim Aristedes Sarmiento, writes about her father, and how she and her family, have struggled because of her father's torture and repeated arrest and detention on false charges. ... More >>
BANGLADESH: Oppression of free speech must end
Saturday, 7 September 2013, 1:27 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned about the continued and arbitrary detention of Mr. Adilur Rahman Khan Secretary of Odhikar. The AHRC has learned that the government has introduced new allegations against Mr. Nasiruddin Elan, the Director ... More >>
Multiculturalism, uniculturalism and monoculturalism
Saturday, 7 September 2013, 1:25 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
We need to define the concepts of multiculturalism, uniculturalism and monoculturalism before entering into a debate on their application, practice and future direction in Sri Lanka. Multiculturalism refers to that trend in the society where the different ... More >>
India: Statement On National Food Security Act
Friday, 6 September 2013, 4:58 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Peoples' Rights Forum, Assam and groups working on the Right to Food are relieved that the Government of India, after dragging its feet for over four years since 2009 when it announced its intention to legislate a right to food, finally ensured the ... More >>
Philippines: Why Journalists Should Be Convicted For Libel?
Friday, 6 September 2013, 4:54 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
After nine years of trial, on September 3 Stella Estremera, editor-in-chief of Sun.Star Davao; and Antonio Ajero, the newspaper's former publisher, were convicted by a local court in Digos City for a criminal case of libel. They were convicted based on the ... More >>
Krishna Prasad Adhikari's Parents Hunger Strike For 41 Days
Wednesday, 4 September 2013, 2:43 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Nepal: An Urgent Call to Save the Lives of Krishna Prasad Adhikari's Parents, On Hunger Strike For 41 Days Demanding Justice More >>
Cambodia: Can a Deadlock Be Broken?
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 4:40 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
There is no problem that lacks a solution, though we may not like our choices. Manmade problems are solvable through imaginative, productive, creative thinking and carefully thought-out action. Some predicaments are harder to deal with than others. The pain ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Destruction of Sri Lankan Democracy
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 4:21 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
A response to Dr. Mark Cooray's defence of the impeachment of the Chief Justice More >>
Navi Pillay: Meaningful UN Statement ON Human Rights
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 4:18 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Navi Pillay Has Made the Most Meaningful Statement Ever Made By the UN On the Human Rights Situation More >>
Thailand: The Normalization of the Violation of Human Rights
Monday, 2 September 2013, 1:46 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Thailand: The Normalization of the Violation of Human Rights In the Name of Protecting the Monarchy More >>
Karapatan Hit Special Treatment For Napoles, Razon
Monday, 2 September 2013, 1:40 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
"Aquino's penchant for giving special treatment to high profile and notorious rights violators and thieves is once again illustrated in the case of Janet Napoles and former Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Gen. Avelino Razon. The double ... More >>
BANGLADESH: Investigations needed into disappearances
Saturday, 31 August 2013, 3:14 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Today, 30 August 2013, is the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearance. According to the UN Resolution A/RES/65/209 adopted in the Sixty-fifth Session of the General Assembly, the 30th day of August has been declared, and has been so observed ... More >>
International Day of the Disappeared
Saturday, 31 August 2013, 3:12 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
It has been 32 years ago since our Latin American sisters and brothers from the Latin American Federation of Associations of Relatives of Disappeared-Detainees (FEDEFAM) initiated the commemoration of what is now officially recognized by the United Nations ... More >>
SRI LANKA: From immunity to impunity
Saturday, 31 August 2013, 3:01 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Those who abuse power almost invariably enjoy the power to abuse. Impunity is both a corollary of power and a tool for power retention; a phenomenon that, by design, perpetuates the misery of those affected by it. As suggested by Paul G. Lauren, understanding ... More >>
Policemen in torture videos: one in jail, another is free
Saturday, 31 August 2013, 2:58 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
After the Anti-Torture Law was enforced, there have been two widely publicized torture videos where police officers were caught on camera torturing suspects in their custody. The first was in August 2010; the perpetrator was Joselito Binayug. The second was ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Workers strike to protest against Moratuwa police
Saturday, 31 August 2013, 2:52 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
SRI LANKA: Workers strike to protest against the Moratuwa police for torturing a partially disabled colleague More >>
