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Cambodia: Forum Violates Freedom Of Assembly
Friday, 12 June 2009, 12:48 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Over the recent months, a human rights NGO, the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR), has been making arrangements to hold a public forum for concerned officials and residents of Boeung Kak Lake in Phnom Penh to discuss the issue of the eviction ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Crimes, Dengue Fever, Attacks...
Thursday, 11 June 2009, 1:36 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Ankubura Seelaratne is a 25-year-old Buddhist monk who with youthful exuberance was engaged in campaigns to eliminate the sale of illicit liquor. Last week he was hospitalised in a critical condition after being poisoned. Some of his dayakayas (donors) poisoned ... More >>
South Korea: Statement About Korean Democracy
Thursday, 11 June 2009, 1:35 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The following represents the considered view of professors at colleges and universities throughout North America whose thoughts are with Korea and Korea's democracy. In light of recent developments in South Korea, we, the undersigned, cannot but express ... More >>
Investigations Into Violations Of Human Rights
Wednesday, 10 June 2009, 2:22 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The High Commissioner observed in her statement, that the Human Rights Council is the leading venue within the UN “to safeguard the fundamental rights of men and women in all countries and to respond systematically and effectively to violations ... More >>
Human Rights In Sri Lanka And Pakistan
Wednesday, 10 June 2009, 2:21 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Firstly, we regret that NGO speaking times in this most substantive section of discussions are again being sacrificed due to unfortunate time management. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is gravely concerned that the Human Rights Council is abdicating from ... More >>
Thailand: Discrimination Against Burmese Migrants
Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 2:36 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Mr. Sawit Keawan, General Secretary of Thailand’s State Enterprise Workers Relations Confederation (SERC*), today, file a complaint with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) during the 98th International Labour Conference in Switzerland. This complaint ... More >>
Latest Journalist Victim In Sri Lanka
Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 2:34 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The witch hunt against journalists depicted as enemies of the State continues unabated in Sri Lanka. The latest victim in this “officially sanctioned unofficial campaign” is Poddala Jayantha, a senior Journalist and prominent media rights activist. More >>
Cambodia: Control That Violates Human Rights
Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 2:33 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Cambodian society was under communist rule for some 15 years before the international community helped it to embrace liberal, pluralistic democracy with rule of law and respect for human rights at the beginning the 1990s. It has in many ways become an ... More >>
Press Freedom Under Attack Worldwide
Tuesday, 2 June 2009, 1:11 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Press freedom violations including attacks on journalists continue to mount worldwide, the World Association of Newspapers said in its half-year review of global press freedom that paints a bleak picture in much of the world. More >>
Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
Tuesday, 2 June 2009, 1:07 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
A recent announcement of the Pakistan Army and its intelligence agency (ISI) stated that the Taliban are taking shelter in the Gilgit and Baltistan areas. They are a disputed part of Jammu & Kashmir, according to the United Nation Commission on India ... More >>
HRC's regrettable failure to take action
Tuesday, 2 June 2009, 1:02 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Paris, Geneva, May 28th 2009 - The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) deeply regrets the resolution adopted yesterday by the Human Rights Council which failed to establish any mechanism to investigate into grave human rights violations ... More >>
Pakistan: A Chilling Tale Of Police Torture
Monday, 1 June 2009, 12:42 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Since the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) first reported on the torture of Mr. Fazal Abbas and his family by police earlier this month, details of escalating brutality have continued to become public, particularly in the case of Abbas’ brother-in-law, ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Dengue Fever, Dysfunctional Democracy
Monday, 1 June 2009, 12:41 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
80 persons have died of dengue fever recently. Over 5,000 people are infected and there are fears that of further spread of the virus. The president has asked the authorities to pay more attention to the issue. More >>
Sri Lanka: Justice And The Media In Peril
Monday, 1 June 2009, 12:39 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Sri Lanka's justice system, legal profession and media are all under peril says a report published this week by the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI). The report is entitled, Justice in Retreat: A report on the independence ... More >>
Pakistan: Lift Swat Curfew For Trapped Civilians
Wednesday, 27 May 2009, 1:54 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
(New York, May 26, 2009) – The Pakistani authorities should immediately lift a 24-hour curfew in place since May 18 in the Swat valley and adjoining areas of the Malakand Division of Pakistan's Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA), Human ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Appalling Conditions Of The Displaced
Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 4:53 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the end of his visit to Sri Lanka described the camps for Internally Displaced People (Tamils) as having the most appalling conditions he has ever witnessed. Prior to this, government spokespersons were repeatedly telling ... More >>
Pakistan: The Issue Of The Internally Displaced
Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 1:39 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Internally displaced persons are human beings and citizens. They are in a displaced situation not of their own choice but due the fact the government has failed to provide them the protection to enable them to remain in their homes. Displacement does not ... More >>
Rebels Within A Dysfunctional Democracy
Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 1:37 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Following the demise of the LTTE leadership there is now much discussion about the LTTE itself. In 1971 a similar movement in the south to the LTTE was the JVP and this movement, lead by Rohana Wijeweera, took to arms again from 1987 to 1991. Today ... More >>
Sri Lanka: The Widow Of Assassinated Journalist
Tuesday, 12 May 2009, 11:40 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
On behalf of my late husband and fellow journalist, Lasantha Wickrematunge, I wish to thank you most sincerely for this great honour you have done him. Lasantha would have been so proud, so humbled, to have known that an august, independent, international ... More >>
Malaysia: Authorities Arrest 80 Writers
Tuesday, 12 May 2009, 11:39 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) is deeply worried that the new Administration under Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has begun a swoop of those publicly opposed to the takeover of the northern state of Perak by the ruling Federal government Barisan ... More >>
