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PAKISTAN: Government must commute death sentences
Saturday, 3 August 2013, 1:38 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Pakistan People's Party took office in 2008, and shortly thereafter issued a moratorium on the death penalty, temporarily commuting thousands of death penalty cases to life imprisonment. The move was hailed by the UN and rights organizations ... More >>
Human Rights Defender Shahed Kayes survives stabbing
Saturday, 3 August 2013, 1:36 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Human rights defender and philanthropic educator Shahed Kayes knew there were serious risks involved in his work. He had to, as nothing in Bangladesh comes without associated risks. He knew that his attempt to educate impoverished children from the low castes ... More >>
India: Prime Minister Must Save RTI Act From Amendments
Friday, 2 August 2013, 3:24 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
(Hong Kong, July 31, 2012) The Asian Human Rights Commission fully endorses the following petition issued by the National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) India. Online petition can be found and signed at http://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/shri-manmohan-singh-prime-minister-government-of-india-save-rti-act-from-amendments ... More >>
Fabrication of Poverty Data In India
Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 5:27 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
By a magic wand unfurled by the Planning Commission, 84.9 million Indians have stopped to be poor between 2010 and 2012: they went through and soared above the poverty line pushed by the Indian Government. Until now, it was said of India as a nation ... More >>
Pakistan: World's Concern About Minorities In Pakistan
Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 5:23 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The issue of minority rights in Pakistan is discussed often around the world these days, in parliaments, human rights groups like Amnesty International, religious freedom departments, foreign affairs committees and international organisations like the ... More >>
Pakistan: Marriage By Choice Becoming Taboo
Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 5:04 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
It was spine-chilling for Pakistanis to hear news of the grandfather who killed his daughter and his own grandchildren only for protecting the so-called honour of the family. The crime was that the daughter had married a man of her own choice, and ... More >>
Sri Lanka: From Minor Tyranny to Excessive Tyranny
Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 3:52 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
“All are accordingly bound by the necessity of keeping the law, unless perchance there is any who can be thought to have been given the license of wrong-doing. However, it is said that the prince absolved from obligations of the law, but it is not true ... More >>
Open Letter to Ban Ki-Moon On Crimes Against Balochistan
Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 3:32 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Pakistan: Open Letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon On Crimes Against Humanity In Balochistan More >>
Cambodia: UN Expert Calls For Free, Fair and Peaceful Electi
Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 3:13 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Cambodia: UN Expert Calls For Free, Fair and Peaceful Elections, and Full Respect For Human Rights More >>
Human rights defender abducted and stabbed
Saturday, 27 July 2013, 1:33 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) condemns the abduction and attack upon Mr. Shahed Kayes, a human rights defender working in Narayanganj district in Bangladesh. More >>
Sri Lanka: The Day When the Rule of Law System Collapsed
Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 3:44 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
What happened on July 23, 1983 was not the event of a single day in history. The impact of that day lives on and with each passing year the situation of the rule of law in the country has become worse. More >>
INDIA: Bihar School Meal Disaster Means Government Must Go
Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 3:15 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Last Tuesday the 16th of July, schoolchildren from a government school in Bihar complained that the midday meal they were served by the school tasted bad. They ate it anyway, because they were hungry, and could not be sure that they would get another opportunity ... More >>
Burma: Police Torture of Gay and Transgendered People
Monday, 22 July 2013, 4:14 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission has been following with concern news of the police targeting of gay and transgendered people in Burma, or Myanmar, and has recently obtained detailed information on a number of cases of alleged arbitrary arrest, detention ... More >>
India: Court Report Suggests Administrative Failure
Monday, 22 July 2013, 3:42 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Commission of Inquiry, constituted by the Supreme Court of India, in Writ Petition (Criminal) 129 of 2012 [ Extra Judicial Execution Victims Families' Association and Another (petitioners) Against Union of India and Others (respondents)] and Writ Petition ... More >>
Stop Prosecution of De Jure CJ
Saturday, 20 July 2013, 2:36 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
It is reliably learnt that the government is in the process of instituting criminal prosecution against the CJ, Shirani Bandaranayake shortly. The recommencement of the hate campaign against her in the state media is an indication of this intended ... More >>
Jihad to convert Hindu girls to Islam rages on
Saturday, 20 July 2013, 2:05 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Jihad to convert Hindu girls is continued unabated under the indifferent attitude of Pakistani authorities. In recent months, seven Hindu girls have been targeted in the conversion to Islam campaign. Of the seven, five have been abducted and converted ... More >>
BURMA: Identifying and freeing remaining political prisoners
Saturday, 20 July 2013, 2:03 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The president of Burma, or Myanmar, U Thein Sein in his recent visit to the United Kingdom has made a commitment that all political prisoners in his country will be released by the end of the year. According to him, a committee is continuing to review ... More >>
India: Frightening Administrative Failure In Manipur
Friday, 19 July 2013, 5:23 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Commission of Inquiry, constituted by the Supreme Court of India, in Writ Petition (Criminal) 129 of 2012 [ Extra Judicial Execution Victims Families' Association and Another (petitioners) Against Union of India and Others (respondents)] and Writ Petition ... More >>
INDIA: Supreme Court's Scathing Report Against the Govt
Friday, 19 July 2013, 5:21 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
(Hong Kong, 19 July, 2013) "If one innocent person is killed by police or other security forces in a fake encounter, it creates tremendous upsurge of hatred…people always accurately know who was innocent. People even know whether an innocent person ... More >>
Campaign Supporting Attack On Christian Women Begins
Friday, 19 July 2013, 2:06 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received a report issued by a Christian organization, CLAAS (Center for Legal Aid, Assistance & Settlement), negating the stripping and parading of Christian women in what appears to be an attempt to ... More >>
