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PAKISTAN: Does the country enjoy freedom of expression?
Saturday, 13 April 2013, 2:43 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Freedom of expression is today at its lowest in the history of the country. The people of the country have, in fact, never enjoyed freedom of expression. However, during the last decade or so the governments have claimed that they have given freedom ... More >>
A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission
Saturday, 13 April 2013, 1:19 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
ASIA: A statement by Asian jurists on the impeachment of the Chief Justice and the collapse of rule of law in Sri Lanka More >>
Intervene now, to save the life of detained journalist
Saturday, 13 April 2013, 1:11 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Yesterday, on 11 April 2013, the authorities in Bangladesh arrested the Interim Editor of a prominent Bangladeshi daily, Daily Amardesh, Mr. Mahmudur Rahman. When Rahman was brought before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Dhaka, he reportedly ... More >>
BANGLADESH: Need to save detained journalist Mahmudur Rahman
Friday, 12 April 2013, 12:16 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Today, 11 April 2013, the authorities in Bangladesh have arrested the Interim Editor of a prominent Bangladeshi daily, Daily Amardesh, Mr. Mahmudur Rahman. Officers raided Rahman's office at about 8:30 am and taken away by the Detective Branch of Bangladesh ... More >>
PAKISTAN: The street children have the right to survival
Friday, 12 April 2013, 12:11 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The International Day for Street Children is celebrated every year on 12th April. The Street Children Day was launched in 2011 by the Consortium for Street Children (CSC) to create a broader awareness about the issue of street children all around ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Open letter on a threatening email from journalist
Thursday, 11 April 2013, 11:02 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
It is not unusual for human rights defender to receive death threats from persons, organisations or governments that do not agree with the stance that has been taken. However, when the threats come from a journalist it reveals the devastating plunge ... More >>
BURMA: Lawyers' report on Letpadaung released in English
Thursday, 11 April 2013, 10:45 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
A Burma-based lawyers group has released its findings on the Letpadaung land struggle in English. The 39-page illustrated report was submitted by the Lawyers Network (Myanmar) and the Justice Trust in February to the government's investigation commission into ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Religious integration—Inclusion not intrusion
Wednesday, 10 April 2013, 11:13 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Over the past months Sri Lankans have been educated on two Arabic words: halal and haram (that which is permissible and not permissible). Unfortunately the circumstances of learning have been an unprecedented antagonism towards the Muslim community much ... More >>
BURMA: State sovereignty put ahead of torture elimination
Friday, 5 April 2013, 5:08 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
On 21 March 2013 a member of the national legislature in Burma introduced a motion calling for the country to join the United Nations Convention against Torture. In his motion, Dr Aung Moe Nyo, member of the National League for Democracy for Pwintbyu, ... More >>
Pakistan: Who Is The Best Judge Of A Righteous Person?
Friday, 5 April 2013, 12:21 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-ART-038-2013 April 3, 2013 An Article from the Asian Human Rights Commission More >>
BURMA:Contrasting reports on struggle for land at Letpadaung
Friday, 5 April 2013, 10:55 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission has since mid-2012 closely followed, documented and reported on the struggle of farmers in the Letpadaung Hills of central Burma against the expansion of a copper mining operation under a military-owned holding ... More >>
INDIA: Repeal the Manipur Loktak Lake Protection Act of 2006
Tuesday, 2 April 2013, 10:22 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is providing an update on the situation of the local Indigenous people of Loktak Lake and the abuses perpetrated by the Loktak Development Authority in accord with the ineffective and outdated Manipur Loktak ... More >>
SRI LANKA: The Bench and the Bar should stand together
Monday, 1 April 2013, 3:26 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Ven. Maha sangha, Your Lordships Judges of the Supreme Court Hon. Attorney General, Your Lordship President of the Court of Appeal and judges of the Court of Appeal, other judges Your Excellencies of foreign Missions, Distinguished guests Ladies & ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Recognising ourselves as our worst enemies
Monday, 1 April 2013, 3:25 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
With a foreign policy in tatters, the judiciary and the legal system in deep crisis and the state of the economy looking more perilous with each monumentally wasteful government extravaganza, the seasonal call of the koha heralding the Sinhala and ... More >>
THAILAND: Children’s immigration status under threat
Saturday, 30 March 2013, 1:27 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received deeply concerning information from Stateless Watch for Research and Development Institute of Thailand (SWIT) regarding a recent draft ministerial regulation proposed by the Ministry of Interior. If it ... More >>
Sri Lanka: A Youtube Presentation
Thursday, 28 March 2013, 4:19 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-VID-003-2013 March 27, 2013 A video presentation produced and published by the Asian Human Rights Commission Sri Lanka: A Youtube Presentation On How The Executive Presidential System Destroyed The Bureaucratic Structure Of ... More >>
Hong Kong: The Vallejos Evangeline case
Wednesday, 27 March 2013, 9:50 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Law Society of Hong Kong notes the Court of Final Appeal ("CFA") published its judgment ("Judgment") in the case of Vallejos Evangeline Banao and Domingo Daniel L. v. Commissioner of Registration and Registration of Persons Tribunal ... More >>
The thirst for honour cannot be quenched
Tuesday, 26 March 2013, 5:56 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Although there is a law in Pakistan against honour killings known as the 'Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2004' these inhuman acts of revenge against innocent people continue to increase. The fact that the law has been amended to include honour killings shows ... More >>
Indonesia: Two Teenagers Are Arrested And Detained in Paniai
Monday, 25 March 2013, 3:00 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
INDONESIA: Two Teenagers Are Arrested And Detained For Two Weeks Over Fabricated Charges In Paniai, Papua More >>
BURMA: President too quick to proclaim state of emergency
Sunday, 24 March 2013, 10:27 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission has been following with concern news of the latest outbreak of communal violence in Burma. The president on 22 March 2013 declared an indefinite state of emergency over four townships of Mandalay Region More >>
