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Sympathies to the victims of the massacre in New Zealand
Tuesday, 19 March 2019, 2:06 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) extends its deepest sympathies to the victims of the massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand. We urge all the governments and the people of the world to support New Zealand’s efforts to deal with the situation ... More >>
INDIA: Flawed and divisive Citizenship Bill
Thursday, 10 January 2019, 5:19 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
With reports of violence over the passage of the flawed Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha across all seven states in the region, India’s North East is on the boil. The Bill, notwithstanding its confusing use of the word immigrants for ... More >>
NEPAL: Government’s only policy is to control NGOs
Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 10:46 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
NEPAL: Government’s only policy is to control NGOs and restrict press freedom More >>
INDIA: reduction in poverty laudable but not enough
Tuesday, 16 October 2018, 2:58 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The United Nations Development Programme’s recently released 2018 Multi- dimensional Poverty Index (MPI) lauds India for a massive reduction in multi-dimensional poverty in the country. The MPI goes beyond looking merely at income to understand how people ... More >>
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
Friday, 27 July 2018, 4:58 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
NEPAL: Government finally agrees to medical reforms after 27 days of Dr. Govinda K.C.’s hunger strike More >>
INDIA: Public official’s escorts assault High Court lawyer
Wednesday, 18 July 2018, 3:23 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission has taken note of the aggressive treatment meted out to Mr. Sevananda Laimayum by a Government official and his escorts. Mr. Sevananda Laimayum is an advocate, serving as the treasurer in the High Court of Manipur’s ... More >>
Situation in Jammu & Kashmir
Thursday, 21 June 2018, 2:49 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) and Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) welcome today’s important report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva. This is the first report by the ... More >>
INDONESIA: Terrorist attacks need immediate evaluation
Monday, 14 May 2018, 7:55 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) strongly condemns the terrorist attacks and suicide bombings which occurred in several churches in Surabaya, East Java Province. We note that the attacks resulted in at least 11 people killed and 41 injured. When ... More >>
INDIA: Inclusion and the right to dignity
Tuesday, 10 April 2018, 4:13 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
On the morning of April 3, the front pages of newspapers told us of violent protests by Dalits in northern India the day before. They had opposed the dilution by the Supreme Court, in its order of March 20, 2018, of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled ... More >>
Indonesian Death Row and Problems of Unfair Trial
Tuesday, 10 April 2018, 3:35 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
In the last two years, under the government of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and Jusuf Kalla, the execution of death row inmates in Indonesia has occurred frequently. The government has said the executions are conducted due to the state of emergency ... More >>
Acquittal is a shocking travesty of justice
Friday, 16 March 2018, 10:06 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
On March 13 2018, the Third Judicial Magistrate at the First Class Court in Mangalore acquitted Pramod Muthalik , and 25 other members of the Sri Rama Sene of the 2009 assault of several women in a Amnesia, a Mangalore pub. The Sri Ram Sene is a right-wing ... More >>
NEPAL: Withdraw the case filed against AHRC and others
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 10:18 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
NEPAL: Withdraw the case filed with malicious intention against the Asian Human Rights Commission and other individuals More >>
INDONESIA: War against terrorism should respect human rights
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 10:07 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a regional, non-governmental, human rights organization in Asia, has learned of the current situation on the war against terrorism in Indonesia. We deplore the action of the Police of the Republic of Indonesia, in ... More >>
Josefina Bergsten’s documentary “The Activist”
Friday, 2 March 2018, 9:47 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Josefina Bergsten is a producer of several social documentaries. Some of these documentaries are, “Unjust – a story of three surviving widows of three human rights activists who were assassinated in their countries”. They were, Munir Said Thalib from Indonesia, ... More >>
INDIA: Suicide by a hungry teen
Friday, 2 March 2018, 9:45 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
In other times Jyoti could have gotten at least a little outrage for her, often all poor and the marginalized get in the country after such tragedies inflicted upon them. Alas, the country is busy over outraging the USD 1.7 billion fraud, and counting, ... More >>
Ignoring Crime Prevention is a Sri Lankan Policy
Wednesday, 28 February 2018, 9:53 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The idea of good governance in Sri Lanka seems to be - to make lot of good promises and thereafter to ignore all of them. This is not only an internal policy, but this seems also to be our international policy particularly with regard to the United ... More >>
Protect victims of trafficking on the Indo-Bangladesh border
Thursday, 22 February 2018, 10:32 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
In November of 2017, a series of arrests were made by the Swarupnagar Police Station officials in 24 Parganas(North) West Bengal, India. The first of its kind was that of Ms. Reena Akhtar, later followed by three other women (Ms.Taslima Begum, Ms.Beuti ... More >>
PHILIPPINES: Constitutional change ignores rights protection
Wednesday, 7 February 2018, 9:36 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
As widely reported, the Philippines House of Representatives (Congress), the country’s legislative body, is lobbying to change the political system by amending the 1987 Constitution. President Rodrigo Duterte’s political allies in Congress are proposing ... More >>
INDIA: Hunger used to be the biggest humiliation
Saturday, 27 January 2018, 11:01 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
President Ram Nath Kovind’s address to the nation, like most of his predecessors at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, took note of persistence of hunger and malnutrition in the country, even more so among the children. He did note that though the republic ... More >>
INDONESIA: Papua faces health emergency
Monday, 22 January 2018, 8:04 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned about the health crisis facing Asmat regency in Papua, Indonesia. So far, 68 children have died from measles and serious malnutrition in Asmat. As reported by national media, the measles and malnutrition ... More >>
