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INDONESIA: Delayed Criminal Code prolongs torture
Saturday, 25 June 2011, 1:05 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-083-2011 June 24, 2011 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the Occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, June 26, 2011 INDONESIA: Delayed Criminal Code reform prolongs institutional ... More >>
Election in Pakistani Administered Kashmir
Saturday, 25 June 2011, 1:03 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
FOR PUBLICATION AHRC-ETC-030-2011 June 24, 2011 An article by Shaukat Ali Kashmiri published by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: 2011- Election in Pakistani Administered Kashmir - a question of transparency and fundamental rights More >>
Catholic wants Saudi maid investigation
Friday, 24 June 2011, 5:10 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
A Catholic activist today joined human rights groups calling on the government to conduct a full probe in the case involving Sri Lankan housemaid Rizana Nafeek, who is on death row in a Saudi jail. More >>
NEPAL: Review of Protection of Human Rights Defenders
Thursday, 23 June 2011, 2:30 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Advocacy Forum (AF) and the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) deplore the government of Nepal's refusal to take strong and specific commitments related to the protection of human rights defenders. Human Rights Defenders have been and remain the driving ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Replacing investigations with gossip
Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 2:03 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
There are discussions about Prageeth Eknaliagoda's abduction and disappearance that go something like this: • Was he a journalist or was he not a journalist? • Was he a great journalist or was he a lesser journalist? • Was he abducted and made ... More >>
Young Woman Sentenced to Death in Saudi Arabia
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 5:25 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
This affidavit gives, for the first time, her version of events relating to the death of a four-month-old infant who she was bottle feeding. She was later charged with murdering the infant and was sentenced to death by beheading on June 16, 2007 after ... More >>
53 to 100 million domestic workers receive labour standards
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 4:30 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
100th ILO annual Conference decides to bring an estimated 53 to 100 million domestic workers worldwide under the realm of labour standards More >>
NEPAL: Transitional justice and impunity
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 4:10 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
June 21, 2011 - During the interactive dialogue of the Universal Periodic Review, continuous impunity for grave human rights violations had appeared as the major concern of the international community. Peer countries have recalled that continuous impunity ... More >>
India:Diarrhea-prone village still lacks safe drinking water
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 3:00 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Uparagadala village, affected by water borne diseases such as diarrhea since 2009, still faces a lack of safe drinking water and nutrition. In 2009, the village experienced 8 deaths. About 6-7 persons came down with diarrhea in August 2010 but were saved ... More >>
ASIA: Meeting of Asian experts on torture law and practice
Monday, 20 June 2011, 4:46 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
REDRESS and the Asian Human Rights Commission are delighted to issue this call for applications to participate in a regional expert meeting which forms part of the action "Reparation for Torture: Global Sharing of Expertise" supported by the EU ... More >>
INDONESIA: Kimaam Island -- Rich but Poor
Friday, 17 June 2011, 10:46 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Kimaam Island, also called Frederik Hendrik Island, Dolok island, Yosudarso and Kolepom, covers an area of 14,357 km. Most of the area is swampy. This island is separated from southwest Irian Jaya by the Muli strait (now popularly known as Princess Marianne ... More >>
ASIA: Attacks on journalists in Bangladesh and Pakistan
Friday, 17 June 2011, 7:00 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
A Joint Oral Statement to the 17th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organization in general consultative status, and Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), a non-governmental organization ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Tortured Catholic woman may now be sold abroad
Friday, 17 June 2011, 4:28 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
In Pakistan, our "friend and ally," "at least 700 Christian girls are kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam every year." And sold abroad or not, any fate for Farah Hatim short of her being reunited with her family and legally recognized again as ... More >>
PHILIPPINES: Torture victims speak out—Interview 7
Friday, 17 June 2011, 3:38 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
In this seventh interview in the series, Rita Melecio, a staff member of Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) in Mindanao, talks about the obstacles in prosecuting the policemen and soldiers for charges of torture. More >>
AKISTAN: Press clubs under threats of attacks by Taliban
Friday, 17 June 2011, 2:58 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The correspondents of international media houses have been warned not to attend meetings or gatherings at the premises of the different press clubs in the major cities of the country. A circular from a well known international news agency that wishes to ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Is the Executive more accountable to Parliament?
Friday, 17 June 2011, 2:24 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The 18th Amendment, we were told, would make the President more accountable to Parliament. The Editorial of the Sunday Observer noted back in the day: By making it mandatory for the President to attend Parliament at least once in three months to answer questions ... More >>
SRI LANKA:Concern about Human Rights Commission appointments
Wednesday, 15 June 2011, 4:40 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
We wish to question what human rights protection experience and credentials they bring to the Human Rights Commission. In short, the criteria that may have been used for selection is highly suspect. More >>
CAMBODIA: Democrats can lead actions against autocracy
Wednesday, 15 June 2011, 12:56 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
In a little more than two weeks, the United States will celebrate its 235th anniversary of independence from England. Compared to Cambodia whose history dates back more than 2,000 years, the US is a toddler, but this toddler remains the world's political, ... More >>
SRI LANKA: The death of law
Sunday, 12 June 2011, 2:11 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
(Hong Kong, June 11, 2011) This is a discussion on the serious crisis of law in Sri Lanka. 33 years of the promulgation of the present Constitution, what is legal and what is not has been obliterated in Sri Lanka. As an illustration of the crisis of ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Extremists openly plans to kill hundreds of Ahmadi
Saturday, 11 June 2011, 5:25 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from Faisalabad city of Punjab province, the second largest industrial and commercial city of the country that a plan has been chalked out to kill the owners and their family members of 36 ... More >>
