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India: Politicians And The Status Of Women In India
Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 12:25 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-ART-117-2012 November 13, 2012 An Article from the Asian Human Rights Commission India: Politicians And The Status Of Women In India Dr. Nidhi Mitra India, the largest democracy in the world, today is slowly becoming the worst ... More >>
Religious minorities continue to suffer abuse
Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 8:47 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Despite being reelected to the Human Rights Council religious minorities continue to suffer abuse and harassment More >>
India: Despicable Policing
Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 3:13 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Once again, the country's judiciary has underlined the fact that there is something fundamentally wrong with the police in India. On 7 November, the Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court, Justice Vikramajit Sen, while hearing a case said, "I ... More >>
South Korea: UPR process-govt either lying or ignorant
Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 3:09 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
There was a period in the past when many rights including fair trial and the freedom of opinion and expression was heavily restricted by both authoritarian and military dictatorship governments. Those who attempted to enjoy such freedoms suffered from ... More >>
Sri Lanka: 1000 Days After Pradeep Ekenailiagoda Disappeared
Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 3:07 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Sri Lanka: 1000 Days After The Disappearance Of Pradeep Ekenailiagoda, Sandya Writes To President Rajapakse More >>
Cambodia: The Country's Contradictory Development Policy
Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 3:05 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
In "The Lost Generation," Columbia University's Earth Institute Director, Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, economist, posited: "A country's economic success depends on the education, skills, and health of its population. When its young people ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Shameful Stifling Of Freedom Of Expression
Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 2:22 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
It is heartening to witness an element of angry vigor emanating from Sri Lanka’s legal profession against the pending impeachment of the country’s Chief Justice. The resolutions issued by the general membership of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Basl Has Failed To Act Positively
Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 12:15 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The series of events which are naked attacks on the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary in the recent past are well recorded. These events culminated in the unprecedented action of the JSC chaired by the Chief Justice and constituted ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Like The Titanic Sri Lanka Democracy Sunk
Monday, 12 November 2012, 5:17 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Titanic at the time was thought of as a wonder ship that could never sink. It was not expected ever to perish. More >>
Day of action for Malala and girls' right to education
Saturday, 10 November 2012, 10:32 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
November 9, 2012 An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: November 10 - Day of action for Malala and girls' right to education More >>
India: State Must Immediately Stop Persecuting Human Rights
Friday, 9 November 2012, 2:11 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
(Hong Kong, November 06, 2012) The Asian Human Rights Commission endorses the following press release and complaint to the National Human Rights Commission of India issued by the People's Union for Civil Liberties. PUCL has lodged this complaint against ... More >>
Why Is Sri Lanka Abandoning Court Centered Justice?
Friday, 9 November 2012, 2:04 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-ART-109-2012 November 6, 2012 An Article from the Asian Human Rights Commission Sri Lanka: Why Is Sri Lanka Abandoning A Court Centered, Law Based System Of Justice? Basil Fernando A reflection on the 16th murder in Kahawatte, ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Judging A Judge -- Politics And Pitfalls In The P
Thursday, 8 November 2012, 11:40 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-FAT-037-2012 November 5, 2012 An article from the Colombo Telegraph forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission Sri Lanka: Judging A Judge -- Politics And Pitfalls In The Process Saliya Pieris* For the third time in 30 years, ... More >>
Burma: Use Of Military-Issued Instructions Denies Rights
Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 4:22 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-222-2012 November 5, 2012 A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission More >>
Sri Lanka: Hell Hath No Fury…
Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 1:49 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
“Tyrant, why swell’st thou thus, of mischief vaunting? …..Lewd lies thy tongue contrives…. Falsehood thy wit approves…” Psalm 52 (Translated by Mary Sidney) More >>
Sri Lanka: The Final Nail In The Coffin Of The Judiciary
Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 1:46 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
For those of us who prefer to take refuge in comfortable illusions that this Presidency only hides a velvet hand in an iron glove (to mischievously twist that proverbial saying around), the motion of impeachment of the Chief Justice of Sri Lanka presented ... More >>
India: Villagers Face Imminent Forced Eviction At A Dam Site
Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 12:13 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Asian Human Rights Commission -- Urgent Appeals Programme Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-191-2012 1 November 2012 More >>
Sri Lanka: International Bar Association Condemns Attacks
Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 12:09 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-FAT-034-2012 November 1, 2012 An article from The Colombo Telegraph forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission More >>
Sri Lanka: The Impeachment Of The Chief Justice Is A Prelude
Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 12:07 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-217-2012 November 1, 2012 A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission More >>
Cambodia Must Pick Up And Go On, Without The King Father
Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 12:03 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
On October 15, an e-mail from a ranking member of Cambodia's royal family, a good friend from 1970, landed in my box: "Dear Gaffar, I am very sad to inform you that former King Norodom Sihanouk had just passed away on early Monday morning, 15 ... More >>
