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Pakistan: Most Police Confessions Extracted Under Duress
Friday, 21 October 2011, 10:43 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
An article from The Express Tribune forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission By Shamsul Islam More >>
India: The BSF strikes again in West Bengal - Urgent Appeal
Friday, 21 October 2011, 9:54 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
INDIA: The BSF strikes again in West Bengal, this time murdering a man by breaking his skull More >>
Beyond Troy Davis & the Tamils: Activism must be consistent
Thursday, 20 October 2011, 5:25 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Two groups of Indians facing the gallows in India and two men executed in the United States, but vastly different reactions in both instances exposed a certain inconsistency that needs to be nailed. More >>
SRI LANKA: It is not enough to 'cry for the country'
Thursday, 20 October 2011, 3:34 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The editor of the Sunday Leader, in an article entitled 'The law is an ass' questions the statement by a government spokesman that Duminda Silva is not a suspect in the killings of Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and three others. More >>
PAKISTAN: Poisoned minds-fuelling the massacre of Shias
Thursday, 20 October 2011, 3:27 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
It was meant to be a drive to a religious pilgrimage. It ended as a bloodbath. On September 19, 2011, 26 people were shot dead in Mastung, Baluchistan, after a bus carrying pilgrims to Iran came under fire from militants later claimed as their own ... More >>
WORLD: End hunger, advance food security—empower rural women
Thursday, 20 October 2011, 3:20 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
This year’s International Day of Rural Women should remind us of the huge contributions that rural women make to social and economic progress and in the fight against poverty, hunger, and malnutrition. Today as nations struggle with food security, it is time, ... More >>
INDIA: Critique institutions not the law
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 10:38 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Re-reading the conflict in Balochistan
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 10:34 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
In a world characterized by violence and volatility, this year’s message for International Literacy Day was “Literacy for Peace”. In Pakistan, the policy response to the idea would be lukewarm at best; despite the attention received by the “Education ... More >>
SRI LANKA: The criminal Justice system is a dead tree
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 10:30 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
That murder should not be looked on lightly and the murderers must be punished is one of the most basic moral judgements in any human society. The attitude taken by the Sri Lankan government that no legal action need be taken against Duminda Silva, ... More >>
PHILIPPINES: Perversion of habeas corpus writ--broken system
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 10:28 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is disappointed by a local court’s unnecessarily delay in concluding the habeas corpus writ of torture victim Abdul Khan Ajid. More >>
India:Activist targeted in Orissa for exposing 'ghost ponds'
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 10:10 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Orissa is one of the states in India that has failed to assimilate the spirit of the 73rd amendment of the Indian constitution, which provides a constitutional framework to the Panchayat Raj. The state has also failed to appreciate the Right to Information ... More >>
Burma: National reconciliation through hostage taking
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 10:03 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Among the many analyses of the release of a couple of hundred political prisoners in a total of over 6000 detainees let out of Burma's prisons last week, the most precise and succinct came from a famous comedian, Zarganar. Imprisoned for criticising ... More >>
SOUTH KOREA:Sexual crimes against minor girls by US military
Monday, 17 October 2011, 5:37 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
A teenage girl was allegedly raped by a US soldier in Seoul on September 17th, 2011. Another teenage girl was heinously raped for four hours by another U.S. solider in Dongducheon, Gyunggi Province on September 24. More >>
Sri Lanka: Executive presidential system and T56
Monday, 17 October 2011, 10:31 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
While the whole nation was shocked by the multiple killings at Mulleriyawa, another set of gruesome murders have been reported from Puhulyaya, Panahakaduwa, in Udawalawe. A father M K Lalith (37), mother R Indrani Gnanalatha (32), son M K Dilan Chathuranga ... More >>
INDIA: a Bokkasan style monstrosity
Saturday, 15 October 2011, 1:28 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-148-2011 October 14, 2011 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission More >>
SRI LANKA: The link to the alternative report
Saturday, 15 October 2011, 1:18 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
SRI LANKA: The link to the alternative report to the CAT Committee by four international human rights organisations More >>
Perhaps Cambodians soft power will advance their struggle
Friday, 14 October 2011, 8:32 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
October 14, 2011 An article by Dr. Gaffar Peang-Meth published by the Asian Human Rights Commission CAMBODIA: Perhaps Cambodians soft power will advance their struggle for rights and freedom Last August, my column in this space examined the future of ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Christian village attacked by Muslim land grabbers
Thursday, 13 October 2011, 10:18 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
On October 05, 2011, a Christian village Chak No 134/16-L was attacked and seized by Muslim land grabbers in Mian Chanuu-Punjab. Shortly, Mr. MA Joseph Francis MBE (National Director CLAAS) was informed about the attacked. Following the incident ... More >>
INDIA: Manipur on the verge of a breakdown
Thursday, 13 October 2011, 10:13 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
If the economic blockade organised by the Sadar Hills District Demand Committee (SHDDC) is to continue further, it has the potential to develop into an ethnic conflict in Manipur. More >>
Cambodia: Issue of judicial independence must be addressed
Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 10:25 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Siegfried Blunk, the International Co-Investigating Judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), resigned citing statements by the Cambodian government that could be perceived as attempted interference with the work of the court. More >>
