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Cambodia: AHRC Calls for Investigation of Stampede
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 11:18 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The AHRC wishes to express the deepest sympathies to the people of Cambodia in the aftermath of the Bon Om Touk festival stampede that this Monday night left at least 375 dead and 755 injured according to Cambodia’s Bayon TV. Prime Minister Hun Sen ... More >>
South Korea: Statement of resignation from Mr. Nam-Young You
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 4:23 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
As of November 1, 2010, I hereby resign from the post of the Standing Commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK). First, I would like to give my sincere words of consolation, once again, to those who had to left the NHRCK ... More >>
Philippines: Report Exonerating Soldiers is Questionable
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 10:52 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has obtained a copy of an Investigation Report released by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) regional office III, exonerating soldiers who were accused of illegally arresting, detaining and torturing five indigenous ... More >>
South Korea: More Deaths Likely from Forced Eviction
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 10:47 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Many places nationwide have been designated for redevelopment. The redevelopment plan has been made in order for the government to induce investment from companies. Once a place is designated for redevelopment, residents, including tenants, have ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Decriminalization of Rape Through Impunity
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 10:41 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
While there are countless allegations of rape and sexual abuse of women and young children within the civil society, the high numbers are not reflected in the number of cases reported. The trauma and shame that generally follow sexual abuse prevent ... More >>
India: Dharna in Support of a National Food Security Act
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 10:34 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
After an agonising four months of discussions, the final recommendations of the National Advisory Coucil (NAC) for the National Food Security Bill are extremely disappointing. The enactment of the National Food Security Act could have helped the country overcome ... More >>
Intensifying the Campaign to Save Rizana Nafeek Vital
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 10:25 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
What is vital now is making every effort to spare Rizana's life. One wonders whether enough attention has been given to the likelihood that Rizana was in a seriously traumatized state herself? Bad enough that she was the eldest child of a family living ... More >>
Pakistan: Police involved in rape, rights violations
Saturday, 20 November 2010, 10:53 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Islamabad, November, 2010. A large number of police officials across Pakistan have been booked for rape and human rights violations in the last three years, says an official report submitted to the interior ministry. More >>
Philippines: Prisons should not be 'dungeons'
Friday, 19 November 2010, 9:10 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) welcomes the report that Ms Leila De Lima, secretary of the Department of Justice (DoJ), has "pointed on the importance of having a unified penitentiary system." The current structure of the prison system is under ... More >>
Family of Rizana Should be Enabled to go to Riyadh
Thursday, 18 November 2010, 10:25 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission urges the government of Sri Lanka to immediately enable the family of Rizana Nafeek to travel to Riyadh to participate in the proceedings of Rizana's case. It is of the highest importance that Rizana's family are present ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Asma Jahangir awarded UN prize
Thursday, 18 November 2010, 10:11 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission offers its warmest and sincere congratulations to Ms. Asma Jahangir on the announcement that Pakistan's leading human rights defender has been named as this year's winner of a United Nations award that recognizes outstanding ... More >>
Sri Lankan Maids Become Victims in Saudi Arabia
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 10:30 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Spending five years in a Saudi Arabian jail while facing death by beheading would be traumatic for anyone, let alone for a 17-year-old thousands of miles away from home. More >>
India: Hunger speaks the language of death
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 10:25 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) defines undernourishment as a situation arising out of low calorie intake by an individual. The National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau and the National Institute of Nutrition prescribes the 'Recommended Dietary ... More >>
Pakistan: Blasphemy Laws - Stopping the Rot
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 10:18 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The introspection, debate and outrage generated a month ago by the attacks on two villages in Gojra on July 31 and Aug 1 may be out of public sight, as happened all too often in the past, but the nine people murdered and the homes and churches gutted ... More >>
Saudi King responds to the plea for Rizana
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 10:16 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission is happy to learn that His Royal Highness King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia has taken the initial steps towards a reprieve for Rizana Nafeek, the Sri Lankan girl who is currently on the death row ... More >>
Burma: The spirit of 2007 revived
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 10:09 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission shares the excitement felt worldwide at the release of Burma’s unrivalled symbol of democracy and hope for the future, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and at her first public speech in many years, held at the headquarters of ... More >>
South Korea: Human Rights Institution Losing
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 10:06 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
An Open Letter to the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for Human Rights by the Asian Human Rights Commission: More >>
Cambodia: "Knock, Knock -- Anybody Inside?
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 9:56 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
As a student of politics, I understand the usefulness of letter writing, petitioning, appealing to foreign leaders for help. I myself have used these tools. But not today, I have stood as only an observer of Khmer democrats who write, petition, appeal to ... More >>
Files Show Kopassus Targets Papuan Churches
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 9:17 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Secret documents have leaked from inside Kopassus, Indonesia's red berets, which say that Indonesia's US-backed security forces engage in "murder abduction" and show that Kopassus targets churches in West Papua and defines civilian dissidents as the ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Forty thousand killed, more injured
Monday, 15 November 2010, 11:08 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Forty thousand killed and more than one hundred thousand injured during war on terror More >>
