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Sri Lanka: Can Nationalism Be Separated From Justice?
Monday, 2 July 2012, 11:54 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
June 28, 2012 An Article from the Asian Human Rights Commission Sri Lanka: Can The Idea Of Nationalism Be Separated From The Idea Of Justice? Basil Fernando Perhaps one of the words that are most misused in the 20th Century is the word 'nationalism'. ... More >>
An Article from the Asian Human Rights Commission
Monday, 2 July 2012, 11:49 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
June 28, 2012 An Article from the Asian Human Rights Commission Sri Lanka: Honouring Baratha Lakshman Premachandra And Denying Him Justice At The Same Time Basil Fernando More >>
An online paper the Sri Lanka Mirror raided
Saturday, 30 June 2012, 3:41 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
According to reports the office of a well-known online daily newspaper based in Colombo, Sri Lanka is currently being raided. The raid is being conducted by dozens of security officers of the Ministry of Defense. According to a source quoted in the Sri Lanka ... More >>
SRI LANKA: The Supremacy of the national security
Saturday, 30 June 2012, 3:39 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
An Article from the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: The Supremacy of the national security apparatus Basil Fernando In the previous article SRI LANKA: Can the idea of nationalism be separated from the idea of justice? I discussed the idea ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Government rejects Universality of Human Rights
Monday, 25 June 2012, 3:38 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Speaking at the 20th session of the Human Rights Council, under the agenda item clustered ID with the Special Rapporteur on Health and the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Sri Lanka attacked the United Nations' role in developing international ... More >>
A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission
Monday, 25 June 2012, 2:40 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Sri Lanka: The Human Rights Action Plan Will Be Like The Presidential Task Force For Dengue Prevention More >>
SRI LANKA: A threat to the safety of Dr. Nimal Devasiri
Saturday, 23 June 2012, 1:23 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
SRI LANKA: A threat to the safety of Dr. Nimal Devasiri of the University Teachers Union More >>
PAKISTAN: Keep rivers free movement
Saturday, 23 June 2012, 1:22 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Jamil Hussain The entire globe is experiencing a water crisis and Asia in general and South Asia in particular are no exception to this phenomenon. These regions are marred with complex and multidimensional aspects of water crises. Not only has the ... More >>
UN International Day In Support of Torture Victims
Friday, 22 June 2012, 4:18 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
(Hong Kong, June 20, 2012) On June 26, to commemorate the United Nations’ International Day in support of victims of torture, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and Centre for Comparative and Public Law (CCPL) at the University of Hong Kong are jointly ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Defence Secretary Paralyzing Investigation System
Friday, 22 June 2012, 3:41 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Yesterday (19th June 2012) Sri Lanka’s United National Party (UNP) published a statement demanding the resignation of the Secretary of Defence. The UNP claimed that the resignation was warranted in light of the recent deaths of two people at ... More >>
Bangladesh: Open Borders To Myanmar Refugees
Friday, 22 June 2012, 3:01 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter and online petition from the AVAAZ community to the Bangladesh government urging them to open their borders for Myanmar refugees. When this letter was written, ... More >>
India: Police Investigations -- Mind Over Batter
Tuesday, 19 June 2012, 5:29 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Increasing police atrocities on suspects have led a parliamentary committee to recommend capital punishment to police officials for custodial deaths. The committee has suggested that "threats of rape" during interrogation would be considered torture. ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Political Rein
Tuesday, 19 June 2012, 4:37 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The power of a community depends not only upon its numbers and its economic resources and its technical capacity, but also upon its beliefs. (Bertrand Russell – Power – P. 99) More >>
Thailand: Dehumanization And Deaths In Custody
Friday, 15 June 2012, 3:09 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Thailand: Dehumanization And Death In Custody Of A Thai Citizen Accused Of Lese Majesty: The Case Of Amphon Tangnoppakul More >>
Burma: Critical Questions About Communal Violence
Friday, 15 June 2012, 3:06 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission shares the worldwide concern about the communal violence in Arakan (Rakhine) State in Burma over the last fortnight, which has received widespread reportage in the international media, and joins in calls for its earliest ... More >>
Cambodia: Democrats Must Become A Credible Alternative
Friday, 15 June 2012, 1:33 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party's victories in local elections were pre-ordained. More >>
Thousands Families Denied Access To Safe Water In Nepal
Thursday, 14 June 2012, 1:49 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
As a right to food activist for the last five years, I had a dream to travel to the Karnali region, a mountainous area while doing field work. Mugu in the Karnali region is surrounded by nature. Out of the 75 districts in Nepal, it is listed last ... More >>
Sri Lanka: The Rape Of The Legal Process
Thursday, 14 June 2012, 1:25 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
As the criticism both from within the country as well as internationally mounts against what is happening in the name of law and order in Sri Lanka, new types of distortions and aberrations are taking place in the country's courts. More >>
PAKISTAN: Child Labour Issue Of Human & Social Development
Wednesday, 13 June 2012, 12:34 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Child labour is an issue of human and social development and has to be tackled in its actual context More >>
SRI LANKA: Surrendering airwaves & liberty to nepotism
Tuesday, 12 June 2012, 7:29 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Understanding the State capture by Kleptocrats does not require a dedicated study; it is easily recognizable. For the benefit of keen students of governance, let me begin this article with the definition of Kleptocracy: " A form of political and ... More >>
