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India: The Right to Food
Thursday, 12 August 2010, 4:38 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
“Supreme Court has ordered on the 27th of July, 2010, that not a single grain should be wasted and its should be distributed to the hungry, so I would like to give a call to all the people, dalit, adivasis that since the Government will never distribute ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Inhuman treatment of a young woman
Thursday, 12 August 2010, 4:36 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
This is a narrative of the husband of the victim, a 17 year old woman with a two month old child, who was subjected to the horrible experience of being beaten about 100 times with the hard centre stem from a coconut frond in the presence of the committee ... More >>
Pakistan: Negligence of the authorities
Thursday, 12 August 2010, 4:35 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The negligence of the authorities and improper mechanisms to deal with natural disasters has put the lives of millions of people in peril after the heavy rains in Pakistan. As a result the lives of the people have been drastically affected with the destruction ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Where Is Prageeth?
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 5:05 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
200 days have passed since Sri Lankan journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda disappeared. Prageeth, who regularly contributed to LankaeNews web site, went missing 24 January 2010. Prageeth is known for his views critical of the government of Sri Lanka. More >>
Moral dilemmas involved in the Sakvithi incident
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 1:04 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
After the arrest of Sakvithi many persons from the more affluent sections of Sri Lankan society are demanding the money which they have invested in his illegal business. This raises many issues regarding the relationship between the Sri Lankan middle ... More >>
Absolution to one of Maina Sunuwar's murderers
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 1:02 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The details of the enforced disappearance, torture and killing of this 15-year-old girl while in army custody triggered the indignation of the Nepalese civil society and the international community. The continuous struggle by her parents to know the ... More >>
The State Of Denial And The Descent To Silliness
Friday, 6 August 2010, 3:48 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
For several decades now the Sri Lankan people have been exposed to extraordinary acts of separation, large scale forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture, illegal arrest and detention. More >>
Asia: Women's views on prevention of torture
Saturday, 31 July 2010, 1:22 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Beverly Anne Santos is 24 years old. She is a television reporter for a local television station in General Santos City. She is a Bachelor of Arts Major in Mass Communications from the Notre Dame of Dadiangas University (NDDU). In this interview, she speaks ... More >>
Pakistan: The WISE women of Karachi
Saturday, 31 July 2010, 1:19 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
WISE -- Women’s International Shared Experience Project - travelled to Karachi, to work with women from throughout the Sindh area who have been raped, sexually assaulted or domestically abused. More >>
Pakistan: Two Steps Forward- One Step Back
Saturday, 31 July 2010, 1:17 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
An Ordinance, titled "The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Protection and Welfare Ordinance 2010" (KPCP&WO 2010) was promulgated by the Provincial Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa last month. Although this Ordinance was promulgated on 9 June 2010, I came to know ... More >>
Contempt of Court Issue Needs Urgent Addressing
Friday, 30 July 2010, 5:43 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
In times of serious repression such as the situation that Sri Lanka is faced with now, the courts are the citizen’s last resort. If the citizens are intimidated from seeking redress from the courts the people lose even that last resort. More >>
INDIA: Khairlanji Is Not Just Another Murder Story
Friday, 30 July 2010, 5:37 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The recent verdict of the Bombay High Court in the Khairlanji massacre case convicting all the accused to life imprisonment could have been a welcome one and gone a long way in restoring ordinary people's faith in the country's justice system. More >>
Pakistan: Blasphemy Law Revisited
Friday, 30 July 2010, 5:03 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Is it not time for the Ulema to re-examine their thesis that the blasphemy law can stop private citizens from killing suspects? Surely they do not wish their faith to be defamed. More >>
Singapore: Judicial harassment of journalist
Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 1:25 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), representing 164 organisations across the world, is deeply concerned about the arrest of and charges leveled against British journalist Mr. Alan Shadrake on 18 July 2010, a day after he launched his ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Supreme Court must use its authority
Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 6:44 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Human Rights Committee of the United Nations has found that the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has abused its contempt of court powers in the case of Anthony Michael Emmanuel Fernando (CCPR/C/83/D/1189/2003—29th April, 2005). The UNHRC in paragraph ... More >>
AFSPA promotes armed insurgency in Manipur
Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 11:45 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
On 5 November 2010, Ms. Irom Chanu Sharmila, a Manipuri poet and human rights defender, will complete ten years of her indefinite hunger strike in Imphal, Manipur state. Sharmila started her fast on 5 November 2000, the day infamous for the Malom massacre ... More >>
NEPAL: Implementation Of Anti-Discrimination Laws
Saturday, 24 July 2010, 1:46 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Nepal's politics is reeling under frequent changes but the alarming governmental lethargy regarding the issue of caste-based discrimination seems to be a constant, barely affected by the evolution of the political scene. More >>
PAKISTAN: ISI Victim & Family May Commit Suicide
Saturday, 24 July 2010, 12:47 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Mr. Mohammad Iqbal Awan, who was kept in an army torture cell by Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) officials for five years, announced that he will commit suicide along with his wife and child on August 14, on Independence Day of Pakistan. More >>
India: Assault on Professor Joseph
Thursday, 22 July 2010, 4:34 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Rarely do individual tragedies reflect all that is wrong in a society. Even rare are occasions where their implications go beyond the lives of the individual, his family, or the neighborhood. But, when they do, they assume a significance that has ... More >>
India: Draft law against torture
Thursday, 22 July 2010, 4:32 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
We cannot follow the footsteps of the United States of America. They are simply preaching about the human values, on the human rights. We all know what they do in Guantanamo jail. We also have the experience of the Tihar jail in the very city of Delhi. A ... More >>
