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Pakistan: Victims of forced conversion and forced marriages
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 9:19 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Ms. Tina aged 28 d/o Barkat, Christian by faith and resident of. She has six siblings Samuel 35-year, Nasreen 32-yers-old, Rebecca 30- year-old, and Saira 21-year-old (Adopted). Tina belong to a strong believe Christian family. Her father is a very ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Law Student Subjected to Harassment
Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 9:16 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
(Hong Kong, April 11, 2011) The Asian Human Rights Commission has previously reported the complaint of Dasanayaka Mudiyansalage Thushara Jayarathna, who complained about the irregularities at the Law School exam and the subsequent harassments he has suffered ... More >>
Lanka-E-News staff, their lawyers and supporters threatened
Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 9:14 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission has reported on the many threats to internet publications made recently. The latest was the arrest of the Lanka-E-News editor, Bennett Rupasinghe. Rupasinghe's arrest brought numerous protests from local media organisations, locally ... More >>
Sri Lanka: US State Department Report
Monday, 11 April 2011, 4:51 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Sri Lanka is a constitutional, multiparty republic with a population estimated at 21 million. President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was reelected to a second six-year term in January, and the parliament, which was elected in April, share constitutional ... More >>
INDIA: An old man assaulted by the Central Reserve Police
Saturday, 9 April 2011, 3:05 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
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What is this Jan Lokpal initiative?
Saturday, 9 April 2011, 2:43 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-051-2011 April 8, 2011 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: What is this Jan Lokpal initiative? Despite corruption being rampant in the country, India still does not have an independent and credible functioning ... More >>
Saudi Arabia/Sri Lanka: Nafeek's parents appeal for clemency
Friday, 8 April 2011, 3:35 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
RIYADH: The Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has made an appeal to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah pleading for a pardon to the Sri Lankan woman Rizana Nafeek, who was sentenced to death after she was convicted of ... More >>
Indonesia: Intelligence bill drafting
Friday, 8 April 2011, 9:15 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Indonesian parliament with the government plans to ratify the State Intelligence Bill draft to become the Law of Intelligence in 2011. Through a series of discussions that have been done by the parliament and government, Intelligence draft has undergone ... More >>
India: A responsible government will listen to the people
Friday, 8 April 2011, 9:14 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Veteran human rights defender and anti-corruption activist, Mr. Anna Hazare has started an indefinite fast in New Delhi, on 5 April, demanding the Government of India to legislate the Jan Lokpal Bill without any further delay. The Bill is a model law ... More >>
Sri Lanka: April 5th events and the 1978 constitution
Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 4:33 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
(April 05, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka Guardian) April 5th has significance to Sri Lanka due to the JVP uprising of 1971. The word uprising has been used for this event by way of an exaggeration. The exaggeration came mainly from the then-government and ... More >>
India: Yet another human rights defender attacked in Odisha
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 9:33 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Issues: Police-criminal nexus; Threat to human rights defenders; Forest rights; Corruption; Indigenous communities More >>
Further appeal to save the life of Rizana Nafeek
Monday, 4 April 2011, 4:22 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
"We have not received any communication from our daughter," said Muhammad Nafeek, the father of Rizana, the Sri Lankan domestic worker who has been sentenced to death by a Saudi Arabian court. Rizana went to Saudi Arabia as house maid via a foreign ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Protest against Attorney General's decision
Monday, 4 April 2011, 9:38 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
We reproduce below the written submission made on behalf of the aggrieved party by their attorney to the high court of Colombo in Kathri Arracchi Case More >>
SRI LANKA: Stop the persecution of Lanka-E-news
Saturday, 2 April 2011, 8:51 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
SRI LANKA: Stop the persecution of Lanka-E-news and release its editor, Bennett Rupasinghe More >>
Sri Lanka: Persecuting of NGOS
Friday, 1 April 2011, 10:22 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
These days there is considerable discussion about investigations into some NGOs in Sri Lanka. The president himself is talking in public about this issue and already implying that there is some kind of wrong doing on the part of some NGOs. This has ... More >>
India: Journalists assaulted in Assam University
Friday, 1 April 2011, 9:27 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Barak Human Rights Protection Committee (BHRPC) that a group of journalists were assaulted at the Assam University campus in Assam. It is alleged that the proctor of the university ... More >>
India: Justice Implies More Than A Law
Friday, 1 April 2011, 9:25 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Over the past four months, the Union Law Minister, Mr. M. Veerappa Moily, has been claiming that his ministry wishes to propose a law, on the 'right' to justice, which would guarantee justice to every citizen. More >>
Burma: Neither evidence nor law anywhere in bomber trial
Thursday, 31 March 2011, 9:36 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
A relative of a young man accused of bombing the traditional New Year festival in Rangoon during 2010 has again petitioned the Supreme Court for the trial to be transferred to another judge and for the case to be heard in accordance with law. The petition ... More >>
India: Mother of two children thought of suicide, twice
Wednesday, 30 March 2011, 10:45 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Nervazhi, a human rights organisation based in Kerala, concerning the case of torture and intimidation of a family by the local police in Ernakulam district of Kerala state. The police, ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Call For Urgent Interventions
Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 9:54 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
In view of insecurity created by a series of incidents in the aftermath of the arson attack of Lanka e-News, staff of Lanka e-News, concerned media and human rights organizations in Sri Lanka is calling for urgent and immediate intervention from local and international ... More >>
