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AHRC TV: Just Asia, Episode 126
Saturday, 11 June 2016, 7:38 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
This week Just Asia begins with the attack on a peaceful public protest in North Sulawesi, Indonesia on June 1, calling for professionalism by parliamentarians, and the prosecution of those involved in illegal drugs. While waiting to have a dialogue ... More >>
THAILAND: Protection of human rights defenders
Saturday, 11 June 2016, 5:13 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to mark 31 May 2016 as an important date in Thailand’s history with respect to the protection of human rights defenders. On this day, the Provincial Court in Thailand, Northeast, delivered its official ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Mothers set fire to daughters in Nuclear Nation
Saturday, 11 June 2016, 4:51 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
A State that prides itself on being a nuclear State, a symbol of strength and technological advancement, needs a double take. There is something very wrong in a nation and a society where the most fundamental human relationships are mired in violent brutality. More >>
INDONESIA: Open Prisons to Reform
Saturday, 11 June 2016, 4:37 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the detainees and prisoners in Indonesia face serious problems, in particular those related to overcrowding. In the past year, according to the Minister of Law and Human Rights and the Directorate ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Government blames mothers for malnutrition deaths
Saturday, 16 January 2016, 12:07 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Children with sunken eyes and protruding bones, struggling to breathe; mothers watching haplessly as their children die in front of their eyes; this sad reality was not happening in Somalia or Ethiopia, but in a country that is the seventh atomic power ... More >>
AHRC TV: JUST ASIA, Episode 106
Saturday, 16 January 2016, 11:53 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
In this episode of Just Asia, AHRC TV reports from Sri Lanka where the police still appear to consider themselves above the law. Police officers in Embilipitiya killed a young man and authorities responded by simply re-locating the perpetrators to other ... More >>
India: Bundelkhand now on a grass diet
Saturday, 16 January 2016, 11:12 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
People in Bundelkhand are being forced to eat grass for survival. This dire situation is being aired in reports after report of news channels. Grass and weeds are traditional diet in the area, counter officials of the Uttar Pradesh government. Neither is entirely ... More >>
Call for Justice for Torture and Enforced Disappearances
Friday, 18 December 2015, 4:56 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
A Press Releasefrom Gwangju Human Rights Laureates, Imparsial, IKOHI and the May 18 Memorial Foundation (Gwangju, South Korea) forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) More >>
Conference must tackle the disaster at the door
Tuesday, 1 December 2015, 9:10 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
WORLD: COP21-Climate Change Conference Paris-got to tackle both doomsday and the disaster at the door More >>
PAKISTAN: New wave of abduction, rape and forced conversion
Monday, 30 November 2015, 12:19 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Freedom of religion is a fundamental right that exists only on paper in Pakistan. Each year thousands of Christians, forming 13% of the total population, suffer at the hands of religious bigots who use blasphemy as an excuse to ruin their life. ... More >>
An Announcement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
Saturday, 24 October 2015, 1:43 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
This week AHRC TV first turns to the Philippines, where civil society organisations, including the Asian Human Rights Commission, recently launched a campaign to stop military harassment and killings of Lumads, an indigenous group in Mindanao. Massive ... More >>
Indonesia: Arbitrary detention frequent, law reform stagnant
Monday, 21 September 2015, 4:43 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) to the Chairperson Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Mr. Mads Andenas More >>
PAKISTAN: Two journalist killed
Friday, 11 September 2015, 8:59 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
A new wave of target killings of journalists and attacking on the media houses have again started. With in the span of 24 hours two media persons were killed by, as usual, “unknown persons”. The score comes to five during the current year. According ... More >>
Pakistan: Executions cross 200
Thursday, 10 September 2015, 8:52 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The number of hangings in Pakistan has already crossed the 200 mark in 2015, and there are still about four months left in the year. If killing human beings were a race, Pakistan is winning hands down. And still there is room for improvement. More >>
Execution of 10 inmates will harm international relations
Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 2:20 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a Hong Kong-based regional human rights organization, expresses its alarm against the plan of your government to execute ten death row inmates lodged in Nusakambangan Prison, Central Java Province, Indonesia. More >>
ASIA: Weekly Roundup, Episode 43
Saturday, 6 September 2014, 10:21 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
In this week’s Weekly Roundup , AHRC TV will report on the widespread problem of physical violence – amounting to torture – being committed by police and military personnel against others in uniform. The following stories will be featured: More >>
Threats to the Wang Saphung community
Sunday, 31 August 2014, 12:35 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Protection International and the Asian Human Rights Commission are seriously concerned about the Royal Thai Army’s latest intervention in the conflict between the Wang Saphung community in Loei Province with a neighbouring gold and copper mine. On Monday, ... More >>
THAILAND:Open letter from Thai Citizens Against Dictatorship
Monday, 4 August 2014, 5:28 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
August 2, 2014 An Open Letter from Thai Citizens Against Dictatorship forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). More >>
NEPAL: Government slowly killing Adhikari couple
Friday, 1 August 2014, 1:26 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The fast-unto-death hunger strike of Nanda Prasad and Ganga Maya Adhikari, better known as the Adhikari couple, has reached 278 days and counting. Their only demand is an investigation and prosecution of those who killed their son, Krishna Prasad ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Mob kills 3 – a woman, a young girl, & a baby
Friday, 1 August 2014, 12:59 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
On Sunday evening, July 27, a crowd of around 150 fanatics attacked a small, peaceful community of 17 Ahmadi families living in Arafat Colony, on the outskirts of Gujranwala district, Punjab. As a result of the attack, eight houses were burned down. Three ... More >>
