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INDIA: Assam police assaulted mother and daughter
Thursday, 3 February 2011, 9:38 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Barak Human Rights Protection Committee (BHRPC), Assam concerning the case of assault of a 24 year-old-girl and her mother by the police in Cachar district, Assam. This incident ... More >>
India: US can help Indians in seeking justice
Tuesday, 1 February 2011, 9:32 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
A 'default order' issued by a District Court in the United States against Union Minister Mr. Kamal Nath has once again brought the question of sovereign and diplomatic immunity into domestic and international debates. The case at hand concerns the legal proceedings ... More >>
INDIA: Judge dodging investigation must quit
Friday, 21 January 2011, 10:38 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: Judge dodging investigation must quit The Kerala High Court Advocates' Association, in an extraordinary general body meeting held yesterday, resolved to request the Ministry of Law and Justice, ... More >>
Rizana Nafeek Appeal Reaches the Critical Stage
Friday, 3 December 2010, 4:52 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission has reliably learned that Rizana Nafeek's appeal has reached the critical stage as her file, which was pending before the External Affairs Ministry has now been handed over to the office of His Royal Highness the ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Police Action Against Pamphlet Comes Under Attack
Friday, 3 December 2010, 9:49 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Last Sunday (November 28), two trade unionists were arrested and charged for causing incitement for rioting under Section 150 of the Penal Code by the Officer-in-Charge of Negombo Police Headquarters, for the mere distribution of a pamphlet. This action ... More >>
Burma Prisoner Attacked Over Complaint of Inhuman Conditions
Friday, 3 December 2010, 9:45 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
A recent case that has come to attention of the Asian Human Rights Commission is a stark reminder of the inhuman conditions under which tens of thousands of prisoners in Burma, many of them prisoners of conscience, are struggling to survive. According ... More >>
Pressure grows for the release of Rizana Nafeek
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 9:38 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Saudi Arabia/Sri Lanka: Government urged to act rapidly for the release of Rizana Nafeek. The Mothers and Daughters of Lanka, a well known human rights organisation joined with many others who are demanding the immediate release of Rizana Nafeek, ... More >>
India: Does WikiLeaks matter?
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 9:28 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
It is a reality today that opinions, expressions, understandings and assessments of regimes, and of those who lead and shape them and their subsequent conduct that has affected and continues to influence millions of life everywhere in the world ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Negombo lagoon pamphlet leads to criminal charges
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 10:29 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
About 50,000 members of the fisher folk community in the Negombo lagoon area have been protesting against a move by the government to initiate a tourism project which will require the reclamation of part of the lagoon to build a landing strip. The ... More >>
Pakistan: Appeal for British Intervention
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 9:45 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Dear Mr. Prime Minister, We would like to draw your attention to the cold blooded murders of Baloch political activists by the Pakistani Military in recent months. According to verifiable reports from different human rights organizations, the Pakistani ... More >>
Korea: NHRCK chairperson Must Resign
Monday, 29 November 2010, 4:20 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
We, NGO's Collaborative Action to put the National Human Rights Commission of Korea in its place (NHRCK Watch) composed of 87 human rights NGOs in Korea, are writing to bring your attention to the ongoing campaign asking for resignation of Mr Byung-Chul ... More >>
Clear Procedures Needed to Select Suitable Commissioner
Saturday, 27 November 2010, 12:16 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
November 26, 2010 A Statement from the Joint Statement by Law Professors and Lawyers Urging for the Resignation of Hyun Byung Chul, Chief Commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission More >>
PAKISTAN: Christian community in Karachi needs protection
Friday, 26 November 2010, 9:57 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Around a dozen Christian youths were arrested and tortured and their houses searched by their Muslim neighbours in the presence of police officers to arrest a young Christian man, Zohaib alias Noami, (20), the son of Pervez Rahi, who was in love with a Muslim ... More >>
BURMA: Unconscionable attempt to oust AIDS hospice residents
Friday, 26 November 2010, 9:50 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
One of the first trips that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi made after her release this 13 November 2010 was to a privately-run hospice for persons living with HIV/AIDS in Rangoon, where she offered words of encouragement to residents. Since then, the government ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Women Have Little to Celebrate
Friday, 26 November 2010, 9:45 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Today, in recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, it is incumbent upon the international community and the government of Pakistan to examine with greater concern the status and future of Pakistani women. This day ... More >>
South Korea: Mr. Byungchul Hyun Should Resign from NHRCK
Friday, 26 November 2010, 9:41 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Yesterday, Standing Commissioner, Mr. Namyoung Yoo and Ms. Kyungran Moon announced that they have resigned from the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (hereafter: NHRCK). According to them, they recognized that the Commission has been barely limping ... More >>
Philippines:Maguindanao Massacre Victims Must Obtain Justice
Thursday, 25 November 2010, 9:51 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
It does not take much time for any rational person to agree that the families and the victims of the Maguindanao massacre must obtain justice. Anything less is unacceptable. The sheer evil that the perpetrators demonstrated in killing 57 innocent people, ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Extrajudicial killings rapidly increase
Thursday, 25 November 2010, 9:45 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
It has been reported during the recent weeks that in the province of Balochistan the mutilated bodies of 25 persons, who had earlier been abducted by persons in plain clothes, have been found. The deceased person's family members claim that these people ... More >>
South Korea: Statement of resignation from Kyung-Ran Moon
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 5:36 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
I hereby resign from the post of the standing commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) as of November 1, 2010. Having no choice but to write a statement of resignation with not even a hundred days left until the expiration ... More >>
sixth anniversary of the assignation of Gerald Perera
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 5:35 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
On the 22nd November 2004 at 11:30 am, Gerald Perera, a torture victim who was to give evidence in the High Court of Negombo against six police officers from the Wattala Police Station who brutally tortured him, was shot while traveling to work. He died ... More >>
