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Pakistan: Child Ragpickers Should Get Protection
Monday, 23 November 2009, 10:48 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Universal Child Day is being celebrated by the international community, including Pakistan, on 20th November. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was signed on 20th November 1989, and so far the Convention has been ratified by 191 nation ... More >>
Thailand: Computer Crime Law
Monday, 23 November 2009, 10:27 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
In recent days police in Thailand arrested and charged another person over causing a decline in the stock market by spreading rumours through the Internet about the king's health. More >>
Pakistan: Suspected State Agents
Monday, 23 November 2009, 10:26 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
It may have a recently-restored judiciary and an elected government that claims a strong interest in the rule of law, but Pakistan is seeing little progress in the hundreds of missing person’s cases still pending. Pakistanis continue to be regularly ... More >>
South Asia: Child Slavery In Jaintia Hills
Monday, 23 November 2009, 10:24 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Today the world celebrates International Child Rights Day. While declarations and promises are made to guarantee safe living conditions for children, little is known about an estimated 70,000 bonded child labourers working in 'rat mines' of Meghalaya ... More >>
Pakistan: A Statement From SPARC
Monday, 23 November 2009, 10:23 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The World community including Pakistan is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on November 20, to which all member states of the UN have ratified and Pakistan ratified it in 1990. More >>
Thailand: Recommendations On The Justice System
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 1:05 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Since three special laws have been enforced in the three Southern border provinces including the Martial Law Act B.E.2457 (1914) and the Emergency Decree on Government Administration in States of Emergency B.E. 2548 (2005) covering the provinces of ... More >>
India: Starvation in West Bengal
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 1:04 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
E.M. Parvati died yesterday. Parvati was a resident of Belgachhia Bhagar, a municipal dumping ground of Howrah in West Bengal. The doctor who examined Parvati's body certified that the cause of death was pulmonary tuberculosis aggravated by severe malnourishment ... More >>
Bangladesh: Reform The Justice System
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 1:03 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Bangladesh's Minister for Home Affairs Ms. Sahara Khatun has reportedly said that "no 'crossfire' killing occurred since her party has assumed office" in January this year while she was speaking to the media yesterday, 17 November 2009. More >>
Open Letter to the Attorney General of Indonesia
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 12:45 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to urge you to conduct an investigation to follow up the recommendation of the National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM). With regard to the commemoration of the Semanggi I case on November 13, we ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Demands For Economic And Social Rights
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 11:42 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Sri Lankan government today issued emergency regulations to be operative from midnight tonight (November 16, 2009) which makes the services relating to oil, electricity, harbor and water resources essential services. More >>
India: Civil Society Demands Food Security To All
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 11:35 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
On November 9 2009, a number of human rights activists working on right to food issues in fourteen districts came to Jaipur, Rajasthan in order to discuss the current food insecurity as well as the upcoming enactment of the National Food Security Act. More >>
Pakistan: Two Journalists Held
Monday, 16 November 2009, 2:35 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Two Pakistani journalists, Rab Nawaz Joya and Javed Kanwal Chandor, have been held since 10 November in a police station in Okara district, in the north eastern province of Punjab. Although charged with theft and fraud, they were arrested for helping ... More >>
India: Madhya Pradesh High Court's Special Order
Monday, 16 November 2009, 2:33 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Corruption in payment of compensation to the ineligible, house plot allotment, livelihood grant to landless and back water levels: Commission to report back to High Court More >>
109 NGO's Denounce Abuses In Iran
Monday, 16 November 2009, 2:32 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
We, the undersigned independent human rights and civil society organizations from diverse regions and societies around the world, respectfully urge your support for a United Nations General Assembly Resolution condemning the serious human rights ... More >>
Indonesia: The Killing Of A Papuan
Friday, 13 November 2009, 10:26 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned that no one has been held accountable for the shooting of indigenous Papuan Mr. Opinus Tabuni over a year ago during a military operation, and no progress has been seen in the investigation. Mr. Tabuni ... More >>
Pakistan: There Is Light Under The Lamp
Friday, 13 November 2009, 10:23 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
When the petition for looking into the plight of Khawja Saras1 (transsexual/transvestite) was filed at the supreme court of Pakistan, and reported in some of the more sensational Urdu print media, it was seen as yet another petition that may not have any substantial ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Death Threats To Employees At The Port
Friday, 13 November 2009, 10:22 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The employees in the Sri Lanka Ports Development Authority complained of death threats while engaged in a work-to-rule action for the improvement of wages. These employees have complained that for four years there has been no improvement of wages, although ... More >>
Pakistan: Tribal Conflicts In Ghotki District
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 10:13 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Although the 21st century has been a time of enlightenment and moderation, where the rule of law and democracy is heeded and upheld in many parts of the world, the situation in Pakistan, and particularly in the province of Sindh, is deplorable. ... More >>
Human Rights Defender Named Killers Before Death
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 10:09 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Human rights defender names his alleged murderers shortly before his death; government fails to provide protection. Mr. Nisar Baloch, aged 46, was shot dead on November 7, by motorbike riders. Police have refused to mention the names of the ... More >>
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
Saturday, 7 November 2009, 3:28 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Pakistan army has imposed censorship by various means on the independent news coming out of the areas where the army is conducting operations against militants. Officers of the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), are reported to have been ... More >>
