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SRI LANKA: Five-year-old child kidnapped
Friday, 1 August 2014, 11:22 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
On Monday, 28 July 2014, an unidentified group kidnapped five-year-old Damindu Yasen Kumara. They arrived on motorcycles, with their faces covered by helmets and masks. They stabbed his parents, who struggled to protect their child. The kidnapping occurred ... More >>
GAZA: No safety, no escape
Friday, 1 August 2014, 11:12 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and its partner organisations condemn the continuing hostilities in the occupied Gaza Strip. The AHRC calls upon the Government of Israel as well as Hamas and other armed groups operating out of the occupied Gaza ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Freedom of Association in 1992 and today
Wednesday, 30 July 2014, 4:21 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), are the popular punching bag of the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL), when its actions are challenged by any individual and/or organization. Name-calling, brandishing circulars to warn NGOs and now a draconian law to prevent ... More >>
BURMA/MYANMAR: Situation of Human Rights
Tuesday, 29 July 2014, 2:58 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
BURMA / MYANMAR: Statement of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar Yangon International Airport, Myanmar, 26 July 2014 More >>
Human Rights in Myanmar Yangon International Airport
Tuesday, 29 July 2014, 12:01 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Statement of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar Yangon International Airport, Myanmar, 26 July 2014 More >>
Burma/Myanmar: Farmers face prison sentences for trespassing
Tuesday, 29 July 2014, 11:24 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
President of Myanmar, U Thein Sein, announced that the government cannot give back over 30,000 acres of paddy land that the state has been using since it was confiscated by the army two decades ago. On the one hand the President ordered state and regional ... More >>
CAMBODIA:A compromise based on national interests and people
Tuesday, 29 July 2014, 10:11 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
It is an irony that Prime Minister Hun Sen, who clings to political power as the result of alleged electoral irregularities and fraud and who refuses to permit any impartial investigation of the allegations is being legitimized by the opposition ... More >>
NEPAL: Trauma & Drama Echo in Dolpo
Thursday, 24 July 2014, 5:25 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
'A cold shiver runs through my veins and my body heats up every time I see a policeman', is what Nyima Tsering, from Tsarka VDC in Nepal, said to reporters after a 29 July press conference. During the police crackdown on 3 June, Nyima, 25 years of age, ... More >>
SOUTH KOREA: Ferry Sinks National Morale
Thursday, 17 July 2014, 10:42 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
On April 16 of this year, a ferry sank and hundreds of lives were lost. Many students who died were from a single school. Dozens of passengers are still missing. This incident has signalled the public that they need to be more aware of the concept ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Targeting Freedom of Expression
Friday, 11 July 2014, 4:44 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
A notice has been issued by one D.M.S, Dissanayake as the director/registrar of the NGO Secretariat in a letterhead of the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development warning the NOGs that they are acting beyond their mandates by conducting press conferences ... More >>
India: A Discordant Note on the Dowry Order
Tuesday, 8 July 2014, 5:12 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Indian Supreme Court’s decision to disallow blind arrest of the accused in dowry cases seems baffling at first sight. After all, the same court has often turned down bail applications, usually granted in such cases by Sessions Courts and High ... More >>
CAMBODIA: Old politicians in a new society
Tuesday, 24 June 2014, 1:55 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The political deadlock in Cambodia has lasted almost a year as the negotiations have produced little common ground for both the opposition and ruling parties. After the elections, the CNRP's weekly mass demonstrations became a daily event in Phnom Penh. More >>
SRI LANKA: Advocating A Different Political Project
Monday, 16 June 2014, 5:14 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The normalization of the abnormal is an inevitable result of conflict. This is hoary wisdom. Yet there is a lived-reality of this truth which needs to be meditated on with painful clarity. More >>
INDIA: Restore the rule of law, curb sexual violence in U.P.
Saturday, 14 June 2014, 2:57 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Since India’s general election, Uttar Pradesh has witnessed sharp escalation of sexual violence and lawlessness. The rape of a session court judge in her official residence, guarded by the Provincial Armed Constabulary round the clock, highlights ... More >>
Rights for Cambodian migrant workers
Saturday, 14 June 2014, 2:56 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC) – a coalition of 21 NGOs working on the promotion of Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law in Cambodia deplores the decision of the Thai junta to deport Cambodian migrants en masse and demands ... More >>
SRI LANKA: A country with zero respect for law enforcement
Thursday, 12 June 2014, 11:08 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The major problem affecting all Sri Lankans now, and which is likely to affect future generations, is the complete failure of law enforcement and resulting lawlessness. While virtually everyone is aware of this problem, it is not subject to conversation. More >>
PAKISTAN: Die my daughter, die quickly!
Tuesday, 10 June 2014, 1:58 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Farzana Perveen's murder was not the first time men played the game of honour on a woman's body. In societies like Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and much of the Middle East and Africa, this is an everyday reality women have to live with. According to ... More >>
ASIA: Weekly Roundup, Episode 30
Saturday, 7 June 2014, 12:24 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The episode opens with analysis of the post-coup situation in Thailand. Tyrell Haberkorn, Thailand expert and Fellow at The Australian National University, speaks with AHRC TV about the military crackdown, continuing arrests, and the ingenious ways of the ... More >>
INDIA: Two more sanitation workers die cleaning sewer
Saturday, 7 June 2014, 12:19 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
ISSUES: Right to food; inhuman and degrading treatment; hunger, starvation, corruption; impunity; rule of law, Right to life and livelihood; right to rehabilitation and compensation More >>
Repeated denial of bail and attack on political freedom
Friday, 6 June 2014, 10:54 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to express grave concern about the repeated denial of bail in the case of Apichat Pongsawat, who is currently being held in the Bangkok Remand Prison. The proceedings against Apichat are a clear instance ... More >>
