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Indonesia: 5 Years After Munir's Murder
Monday, 7 September 2009, 3:41 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
On September 7, 2004 human rights defender, reformer and leading civil society activist Munir Said Thalib was killed for his critical views of the government and military in Indonesia. One of Munir's main achievements was the elucidation of crimes committed ... More >>
Cambodia: An Obligation To Protect Human Rights
Monday, 7 September 2009, 3:39 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Unlike many other countries, Cambodia is bound to international human rights obligations, including one towards its citizens who wish to participate in the promotion of human rights. Thus, under the Paris Peace Agreements of 1991 that ended the conflict in ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Police Paying Man With Heroin
Monday, 7 September 2009, 3:27 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
(September 03, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Several events have had a shocking effect on democratically-minded people in Sri Lanka this week. J.S. Tissainayagam, a well-known journalist who was prosecuted by the government under draconian anti-terrorism laws ... More >>
Thailand: Politicization Of The Judiciary
Monday, 7 September 2009, 3:26 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
AHRC is writing to you to request urgent intervention in accordance with your respective mandates in response to the case of Darunee Chanchoengsilapakul, and also with a view to wider concerns about steadily declining freedom of expression. More >>
Burma/Sri Lanka: Recent Show Trials In Asia
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 12:24 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The recent case against Aung San Suu Kyi by the Burmese junta is internationally well known. The case and the verdict were condemned all over the world as one more demonstration of a completely fake trial merely orchestrated to silence Burma’s ... More >>
Pakistan: A Political Hanging From A Tree
Wednesday, 2 September 2009, 2:57 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Mr. Rasool Bux Mengal, joint secretary of Baloch Nationalist Movement (BNM), was abducted on August 23, 2009 by plain-clothed men on a double cabin and had since been missing. On August 31, Mr. Mengal’s body, with his identity card around his ... More >>
Burma: denial of fundamental rights
Wednesday, 2 September 2009, 2:55 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The case decided against democracy party leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and co-accused this August 2009 brought to global attention the institutionalizing of fundamental human rights abuse through what the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) has characterized ... More >>
India: The National Human Rights Commission
Wednesday, 2 September 2009, 2:54 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
A letter came from the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC) postmarked Delhi 14 July 2009 was received by the AHRC. It concerned two complaints regarding children who died of malnutrition in Ambedkar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh in 2007 (for the ... More >>
Cambodia: Legal Foundation And Framework
Tuesday, 1 September 2009, 11:54 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to bring to the attention of the Human Rights Council a major lacuna that constitutes one of the most fundamental obstacles to the enjoyment, protection and promotion of human rights in Cambodia. The lack ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Lawless Policing
Tuesday, 1 September 2009, 11:53 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
"To make a real difference, some serious changes have to be made, both in the area of the constitution and on ways to correct the police as an institution. So long as the executive presidency in the present form, with absolute power devoid of checks ... More >>
Justice Is Dead In Sri Lanka
Tuesday, 1 September 2009, 11:51 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission is saddened, disappointed and shocked but not surprised at the judgment of the High Court of Colombo in sentencing J.S. Tisssainayagam to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for a simple piece of writing which he had done ... More >>
International Day on Enforced Disappearances
Tuesday, 1 September 2009, 11:50 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
August 30, 2009 was observed as the International Day on Enforced Disappearances. It is the day on which people around the world gather to acknowledge persons who have disappeared. The causes of these disappearances are human rights violations, ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Lawlessness In The Police
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 12:10 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
I am writing this on behalf of the Asian Human Rights Commission on a matter that is, I am sure that of great importance and urgency to all the members of parliament, whatever political party they might belong to. This is the issue of extreme lawlessness ... More >>
Sri Lanka: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 12:09 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission has compiled and published in sequence, the recent exchanges of views regarding the column on ‘the appalling silence of the good among us’ in the Sunday Times 'Focus on Rights’ column of August 9, 2009 by Kishali ... More >>
India: Internal Insecurity More Serious
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 9:01 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
On 12 August, seven-year-old Juni Kumari was found missing from her home in the village of Ghagni in the state of Bihar, India. On 15 August, her body was found abandoned in a sugarcane field near her village. Juni's mother recovered the girl's body. Her ... More >>
Human Rights Body Is Meaningless And Irrelevant
Monday, 24 August 2009, 1:00 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
In an interview posted on the website of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Thailand, the commission's new chairwoman, Amara Pongsapich, has effectively promised to make the national rights institution meaningless and irrelevant, other than as ... More >>
Burma: Redirect Outrage Over Suu Kyi Trial
Monday, 17 August 2009, 1:00 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has closely followed the trial of democracy party leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and three other persons in Burma, and has earlier pointed to the defects that marred the process from its inception in May 2009 ( AHRC-UAC-060-2009 ... More >>
Pakistan: Gojra And Pakistan's Identity
Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:54 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Gojra has exposed fundamental fissures in the crafting of a national identity in Pakistan. We all now know that large mobs of ordinary Pakistanis, with police impunity, went on a rampage of communalist frenzy to kill eight people and injure many more. ... More >>
India: Encounter Killing And Custodial Torture
Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:53 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
India will celebrate its 62nd year of independence tomorrow. While politicians and national leaders celebrate the Independence Day, delivering speeches and attending dinners, they will have to struggle to explain why often men and women in the country ... More >>
Open Letter To The UN General Assembly
Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:42 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
As the Human Rights Council prepares for its 12th regular session, the first session with the new members elected in May 2009, we write to ask your government to commit itself publicly as a matter of national policy to support a competitive, genuinely-contested ... More >>
