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Sentence Violates Human Rights Law
Sunday, 18 March 2012, 12:39 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Jayapura state court today found five Papuan leaders guilty of treason, sentencing them to three years imprisonment. A number of organisations seriously regret the verdict and have questioned the fairness of the trial proceedings. More >>
Licence of Arrest Granted to Police, Military in Gangjeong
Sunday, 18 March 2012, 12:36 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Despite heavy criticism from inside and outside the country, South Korean police have been arbitrarily arresting and detaining rights activists and villagers in Gangjeong village where a navy base is under construction. More >>
Cambodia: A Survival Recipe
Saturday, 17 March 2012, 3:46 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
My article last month in this space brought comforting and kind words in e-mails from some Cambodian and non-Cambodian readers, to whom I am grateful. It's they who encourage me to have hope in Cambodians' abilities to find ways to effect change. More >>
Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka's Sinister White Van Abductions
Saturday, 17 March 2012, 3:44 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Almost three years after the end of the civil war, Sri Lanka is still dogged by allegations of human rights violations. Amid fresh moves in the UN's Human Rights Council to hold Sri Lanka to account, the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo reports on a rise ... More >>
Philippines: Prosecutor Dismissed Charges Of Torture
Saturday, 17 March 2012, 3:42 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that a city prosecutor in San Fernando, Pampanga, had dismissed the complaint of torture by five torture victims against a police colonel and other policemen due to "insufficiency of evidence" ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Sincere Ignorance And Conscientious Stupidity
Saturday, 17 March 2012, 3:41 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
What the London based Channel 4 is showing the World again on Sri Lanka is not a new phenomenon for this country. This kind of barbaric knavery has a long history. At that time those victims were alone, no one had seen them. The guardian turned ... More >>
Pakistan: Rape Continues to be Used to Suppress Women
Thursday, 8 March 2012, 10:24 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Pakistan: Women's Day -- Unheard And Unwanted, Rape Continues To Be Used As A Tool To Suppress Women More >>
PAKISTAN: More Muslim than the Muslims
Sunday, 4 March 2012, 2:16 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: More Muslim than the Muslims National Data Base Authority (NADRA)creates a new religion with the name of Qadiani in religion column of identity cards' forms. More >>
Nepal: Proposed Inclusion Bill Leaves Most Vulnerable Behind
Monday, 27 February 2012, 2:57 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
On 15 February 2012, a government cabinet meeting decided to table a revised version of the Bill on Inclusion before the Parliament. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned that the provisions of the bill, as it stands now, fail to guarantee ... More >>
PHILIPPINES: Human Rights Council must act on torture
Friday, 24 February 2012, 7:35 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status More >>
Myanmar: Demand Open Trial, Retrial And Dropping Of Contempt
Friday, 24 February 2012, 3:25 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to the Chief Justice of Myanmar/Burma More >>
Sri Lanka: Judicial Intervention To Control Lawful Rallies?
Thursday, 23 February 2012, 3:14 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
An article from the Lanka E News forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission Sri Lanka: Judicial Intervention To Control Lawful Rallies? More >>
Sri Lanka: Vox Populi, Vox Dei
Thursday, 23 February 2012, 1:13 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
You can awake a man who is sleeping but you can’t awake a man who is pretending to be asleep. Everyone in the government knows that this is exactly what is happening in Sri Lanka, in terms of governance. Now the government is in not only in crisis ... More >>
Sri Lanka: The Digp Ravi Wijejunawardena - Shooting
Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 2:02 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
On February 14 a young fisherman, Anthony Fernando, was shot dead while he was engaged with a number of other fishermen in protesting the increase of oil prices which would seriously affect the livelihood of fisherfolk. A large group of policemen led by ... More >>
A Statement from a group of Thai Human Rights NGOs
Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 9:58 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
In pursuant to the arrest and prosecution of Mr. Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, labour activist and core members of the June 24 for Democracy and Editor of "Voice of Taksin" on the violation of Section 112 or lèse majesté law since 30 April 2011, and over ... More >>
Thailand: Growing Threats To Political Freedom In Thailand
Monday, 20 February 2012, 11:18 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status More >>
Government and army share responsibility for murderers
Saturday, 18 February 2012, 7:10 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Credible action to bring Maina Sunuwar's murderers to trial in Nepal's civilian jurisdiction has been unjustifiably delayed. The government bears responsibility for allowing impunity to become so deeply-entrenched that those who tortured a 15-year-old school ... More >>
Nepal: Families Of Disappeared In Legal & Emotional Limbo
Friday, 17 February 2012, 12:45 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Nineteenth session, Agenda Item 3, Interactive Dialogue with the Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances More >>
S. Korea: Election Commission Must Ensure Data Security
Friday, 17 February 2012, 10:52 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
South Korea: National Election Commission Must Ensure Security Of Data In Order To Guarantee Free And Fair Elections More >>
Sri Lanka: On The Edge Of The Knife
Thursday, 16 February 2012, 4:14 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
There is always a fallacious belief that, It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible [1]. The morning of Valentine's Day (February 14) started with the unwholesome smell of the burnt carcass of a person; the incident took place in ... More >>
