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GorakhpurThe killing fieldssurvival is worse than death
Saturday, 22 June 2013, 10:38 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
In India, death has a myriad ways to prey on hapless children and sniff the life out of them. Often, it has rather trustworthy accomplices: the union and state governments. Take but one way it strikes, killing more than a thousand each year. Since 1978, ... More >>
Pakistan Terror Campaign In Balochistan
Thursday, 20 June 2013, 3:32 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
War on doctors: 32 missing, 28 murdered Abductions, disappearances, assassinations & torture Asian Human Rights Commission documents abuses London - 19 June 2013 “Pakistan is waging a war of terror against the people of Balochistan, ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Torture of Interior Decorator
Wednesday, 19 June 2013, 4:25 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Sri Lanka: An Update On the Case of Torture of the Interior Decorator Madawala Maddumage Don Aruna Nilupul Indika More >>
Sri Lanka: Police Beat Man’s Testicles with Wooden Mallet
Wednesday, 19 June 2013, 3:17 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Sri Lanka: Officers of the Kalutara South Police Station Beat a Man’s Testicles with a Wooden Mallet More >>
India: Chief Minister of Gujarat Stop Vilifying Mr. Mandir
Wednesday, 19 June 2013, 2:45 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
With great pride, we would like to put on record that the work of our colleague and friend Mr. Harsh Mander, for the last several years, both inside the Government as a civil servant, as well as outside the Government as a policy maker, researcher ... More >>
India: Information Is Power
Tuesday, 18 June 2013, 3:12 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
There is an ongoing debate about the Right to Information (RTI) Act in India, and the proposed amendments to the scope and extent of that legislation. It is tempting to express one's sentiments for or against it but the RTI debate is a layered discussion, ... More >>
Asia: Applying For the May 18 Academy 2013
Tuesday, 18 June 2013, 2:51 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to forward to you the announcement from the May 18 Memorial Foundation, Gwangju, South Korea regarding applications for the May 18 Academy 2013. More >>
PAKISTAN: "It was her destiny to die this way….."
Sunday, 16 June 2013, 9:27 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
"It was in her fate to die this way", these shameful words were said by a mother after she threw acid on her own daughter. These are the words used commonly by families in Pakistani society to justify their actions and take shelter in this orthodox society. More >>
Disappearances and killings continue unabated in Balochistan
Saturday, 15 June 2013, 12:10 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
During the first four months of the year 2013 no restraint was observed on the part of the military in their actions. Abductions by unknown persons, disappearances and extrajudicial killings continue unabated in the war torn zone of Balochistan province. ... More >>
The arrest of Vaas Gunawardena and the descent into anarchy
Saturday, 15 June 2013, 12:07 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Vass Gunawardena is now in remand custody while an inquiry into the conspiracy to murder a businessman for pay is ongoing. Even as he is being interrogated he was reported in the television network, Suwarnawa ... More >>
Pakistan: International Day On Child Labour & Enslavement
Friday, 14 June 2013, 3:41 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
KARACHI, June 13: With similar renewed pledges as of yesteryears to eliminate exploitation of child labour, their empowerment and granting them their due rights, the global Child Labour Day was observed on June 13 (CLD). More >>
Pakistan: Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer Remembered
Friday, 14 June 2013, 3:37 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Islamabad: June 12, Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer was a real advocate of Peace, humanist and a genuine scholar, who rendered his life for the well being of humans. He always stood for non violent behaviors and worked for peaceful society. More >>
Burma: No Police Prosecuted For Incendiary Attack
Friday, 14 June 2013, 2:57 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Burma: No Police Prosecuted For Incendiary Attack But Seven Activists So Far Imprisoned Over Letpadaung Mine Dispute More >>
Pakistan: Do Women Have the Right to Live In Islamic Society
Thursday, 13 June 2013, 3:21 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Pakistan: Do Women Have the Right to Live In Islamic Societies - When the Protector Becomes the Violator More >>
Pakistan: Police Officers Exonerated In Torture Death Case
Wednesday, 12 June 2013, 4:24 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Pakistan: Police Officers Exonerated In the Case of Death By Custodial Torture On the Plea That There Were No Witnesses More >>
Sri Lanka Police Torture and Threaten Citizen
Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 2:07 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Sri Lanka: Officers of the Karandeniya Police Torture and Threaten to Sodomize Businessman, Insulting Him About His ‘Low’ Caste Origin More >>
Asian Human Rights Commission - Urgent Appeals Programme
Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 1:10 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
10 June 2013 --------------------------------------------------------------------- INDIA: Indigenous communities of Singda New Bazar, Manipur, facing forced eviction for Singda Dam Area Expansion More >>
Thailand: Justice Denied In Murder Case
Monday, 10 June 2013, 3:20 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
On 21 June 2004, Charoen Wat-aksorn was assassinated as he alighted from a bus returning to Prachuab Khiri Khan after he gave testimony about environmental destruction in Bo Nok and Ban Krut to the Senate in Bangkok. Charoen was a prominent human rights ... More >>
Sri Lanka: A Reputed Interior Decorator Is Severely Tortured
Monday, 10 June 2013, 3:12 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Sri Lanka: A Reputed Interior Decorator Is Severely Tortured By Officers of Matugama Police At the Instigation of a Lawyer and Her Husband More >>
Completing the elimination of the religious minorities
Saturday, 8 June 2013, 9:58 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Council of Islamic Ideology in Pakistan held a meeting on May 29, headed by Maulana Sherani, and warned that if the blasphemy laws are amended, the country's minorities will be unsafe, but how much worse could the situation get? More >>
