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SRI LANKA: The body of disappeared activist exhumed
Friday, 29 July 2011, 5:30 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Mr. Pattini Razeek, a well known human rights activist and a member of the executive committee of Forum Asia disappeared on February 11, 2010, yesterday (July 28) his body was exhumed before the Valachchenai Magistrate. The body had been buried within ... More >>
INDONESIA: Ahmadiyah community faces ongoing discrimination
Friday, 22 July 2011, 5:34 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Zaenuda Ikhwanul Aziz, is the secretary of the legal committee of the Indonesian Ahmadiyah congregation ( Jamaah Ahmadiyah Indonesia - JAI). He is actively involved in the struggle of the Ahmadiyah in the country. More >>
PHILIPPINES: Torture victims speak out--Interview 9
Friday, 22 July 2011, 5:28 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
In this ninth interview in the series the interviewee has asked that his identity be withheld for security reasons. Here, he shares his experience on how he was tortured in police custody inside their headquarters. Due to the trauma he endured it took ... More >>
CAMBODIA: The challenges of building democratic institutions
Tuesday, 19 July 2011, 10:55 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Jean Monnet, regarded by most as the founding father of the 27 member European Union, once said, "Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions." That statement has influenced my political thinking over time. I have reflected on ... More >>
INDONESIA: Torture: A heinous act not seriously addressed
Monday, 18 July 2011, 12:13 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
One of the serious issue of human rights violations—which is one of the nonderogable rights —that recently arised public attention is torture. First, in early October 2010 shortly before his plane left for the Netherlands, President Susilo Bambang ... More >>
HKSAR should protect and facilitate human rights observers
Monday, 18 July 2011, 11:52 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
In response to the HKSAR’s attempted arrest and subsequent obstruction of a human rights observer of the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor (HKHRM) in his execution of observation duties and journalists were interrupted and arrested when exercising ... More >>
Karachi killings - miltancy vs. state-sponsored miltancy
Thursday, 14 July 2011, 4:08 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Karachi, the capital of Sindh, remains a hotspot of continuous arms clashes between different political and religious parties where the government has still not been able to use rational methods to control the fighting. The conflict between different ... More >>
Pakistan: Trafficking of women is a fast growing crime
Tuesday, 12 July 2011, 2:26 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Trafficking in people for prostitution and forced labour is one of the fastest growing areas of international criminal activity and the overwhelming majority of victims are women and children. More than 700,000 people are believed to be trafficked each ... More >>
Pakistan: Christian sanitation workers in societal gutter
Tuesday, 12 July 2011, 2:22 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The often unseen or unrecognized abuses suffered by Christians at Pakistan’s lowest level of society – street sweepers – have come into sharp focus this year. While one Christian sanitation worker in Lahore has been suspended and criminal charges ... More >>
Indonesia: Torture Trial Must Be Open to Public
Monday, 11 July 2011, 10:47 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) and the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urge the military to make open to the public the upcoming trial in a case of military torture that was committed against Charles Mali and others ... More >>
Sri Lanka's compliance with the Convention against Torture
Friday, 8 July 2011, 10:05 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
SRI LANKA: A review of Sri Lanka's compliance with the obligations under the Convention against Torture and Ill-treatment More >>
MALAYSIA: Stop arrests and intimidation against Bersih 2.0
Friday, 8 July 2011, 5:20 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission is seriously concerned about the recent arrests and intimidation by the Malaysian government against the leaders and supporters of the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih 2.0) in Malaysia. More >>
SRI LANKA: Glaucon's Story and J.R. Jawardene's Legacy
Friday, 8 July 2011, 4:42 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
In Plato's Republic Glaucon narrates a story about a ring of invisibility The man who found the ring used his power to enter the place, rape the queen, kill the king and to take over the throne. More >>
South Korea: Human rights abuses by business enterprises
Friday, 8 July 2011, 3:13 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The long struggle of a female worker has drawn the attention of both the local and international community. Ms. Kim Jin-suk, a member of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) has been occupying the cabin of Crane No. 85, which is 35 metres ... More >>
Nepal: Independent National Human Rights Commission Needed
Friday, 8 July 2011, 3:08 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) takes exception to the information that the government of Nepal has asked the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in writing to halt investigations it had undertaken into allegations of gross human ... More >>
Another Pakistani woman is killed, officials remain silent
Wednesday, 6 July 2011, 2:19 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
No one noticed last month when Shazia, 19, was stoned, burnt with acid, and then shot dead for an unknown sin in Mardan, the second largest town in northern Pakistan after Peshawar. More >>
Sri Lanka: New Inspector General of Police
Wednesday, 6 July 2011, 2:16 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Sri Lanka: The challenge for the new IGP is to win the cooperation of his ASPs More >>
Pakistan: Children left parentless after unrest and violence
Monday, 4 July 2011, 4:53 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
For nearly a-decade-long armed conflict, internal unrest and violence in Balochistan have resulted split up of families which left children alone without any parental look after; hundreds of their parents mainly men who were either imprisoned or dead ... More >>
Malaysia: Campaign against human rights defenders continues
Monday, 4 July 2011, 3:54 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
SUARAM condemns the continuing campaign of intimidation and harassment of human rights defenders by the government of Malaysia. Since 22 June, over 100 individuals have been arrested because they have expressed their support for a mass rally on 9 July, ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Serious Deficit of the Rule of Law
Friday, 1 July 2011, 4:56 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
It has been said that the phrase 'The Rule of Law' has been rendered meaningless to some extent as a result of its frequent overuse in common parlance but even so, there is little doubt that this is the most fundamental principle underlying the ... More >>
