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Cambodia: The Bar Association
Saturday, 9 May 2009, 12:45 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The international norms and standards relating to the legal profession require that the lawyers could practice their profession without fear and intimidation. The professional rights of the lawyers have been recognised globally. The lawyers in Cambodia have ... More >>
A Statement by Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Friday, 8 May 2009, 2:42 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The following is the abridged transcript of a speech made by Pushpa Kamal Dahal, former Prime Minister of Nepal, addressing the People's Liberation Army cadres at Shaktikhor Cantonment on 2 January 2008 More >>
Pakistan: Army In Dealing With Taliban
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 1:00 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
After the failure of the peace initiatives with the Taliban and Tehreek-e- Nifaz-e-Shariah Mohammadi (TNSM), the government of Pakistan has started an operation with the help of the Pakistan army in the northern parts of country, bordering Afghanistan, on ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Fundamental Rights Upheld
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 12:58 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Supreme Court holds that police authorities have not heeded chief justice's recommendations against police abuse, rampant dishonesty and corruption More >>
Nepal: The Prime Minister's Resignation
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 12:55 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The resignation of the Prime Minister of Nepal and its prompt acceptance by the country's President, expose the vulnerability of the ongoing democratisation process in that country. The peace process in the newest democracy of the region, even after nine ... More >>
UN Member States Urged Not To Elect Azerbaijan
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 12:54 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
On the occasion of the Human Rights Council elections on May 12, 2009, we, the undersigned international human rights organizations, wish to draw your attention to the deteriorating human rights situation in Azerbaijan and encourage your government not to vote for ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Action Needed To Crush Criminal Gangs
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 12:11 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Satheeskumar Thinuska, who was abducted, was found dead last weekend in Batticaloa. The little girl, according to the police, was a victim of a suspected ransom bid by unidentified persons. According to reports the abductors had demanded Rs. 3 million ... More >>
The Use Of Choppers And Machetes
Friday, 1 May 2009, 5:12 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
"We may have to take choppers and machetes, we will have to attack with choppers those who jump over the boundaries," chanted a group of people from Hela Urumaya, (a Sinhala heritage party), gathered in front of the British High Commission to protest ... More >>
Asia: Women Claim Our Right To Food!
Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 12:00 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
You claim that although the food crisis we suffered globally in 2008 is only a cyclical phase, the serious structural problems remain. The structural problems affect much more people in developing countries with less bargaining power in front of the powerful ... More >>
Pakistan: Militants Destroys The Writ Of The State
Sunday, 19 April 2009, 1:03 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The government of Pakistan has entered into an unconstitutional agreement with the Islamic militants operating in the country to implement an Islamic code of practice, the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation (NAR), through a resolution passed in the national assembly ... More >>
LTTE Is No Excuse For Killing Vanni Civilians
Sunday, 19 April 2009, 1:01 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
A young mother is injured and her three month old baby killed by shell fragments as she breastfeeds the child in the government declared no fire zone. Parents hide their children in roughly dug bunkers to escape LTTE press gangs who comb the no-fire ... More >>
Abduction Of Three Doomed Men By Spooks
Wednesday, 15 April 2009, 12:41 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission believes that the life of Balochi lawyer, Mr. Kachkol Ali is in danger, after he witnessed the abduction of three clients, shortly before they were found murdered in Balochistan province. Although the captors wore plain ... More >>
Secretary-General's Statement On Sri Lanka
Wednesday, 15 April 2009, 11:53 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
I welcome the announcement made today by the Government of Sri Lanka that it will observe a two day pause in offensive military operations. This is less than the full humanitarian pause of several days I had pressed for but is nevertheless a useful ... More >>
Pakistan: Fingers Point At Intelligence Agencies
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 1:01 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Three Baloch nationalist leaders were killed after their abduction by plain clothes persons in mysterious vehicles that bore no registration plates. They were taken from the chambers of a prominent lawyer and their deaths have raised several questions ... More >>
Attacks On Media Freedom
Saturday, 11 April 2009, 2:43 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Five media organisations in Sri Lanka issuing an investigative report entitled, 'The Resurgence of Terror and the paramilitary forces in Sri Lanka,' stated that covert operations are carried out by paramilitary groups that have the patronage of an ultra-powerful ... More >>
Nepal: A Government Should Run The Country
Saturday, 11 April 2009, 2:41 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The report from Nepal, where a mob led by the Maoist cadres, in the past two days, interfering and preventing the court proceedings at Surkhet district is one more incident that highlights the wrong direction in which the country is headed. Parbati ... More >>
Newspaper Editor's Murder Three Months Ago
Saturday, 11 April 2009, 2:39 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Reporters without Borders has gathered information from various sources that supports the theory that the Sri Lankan authorities are blocking the investigation into the murder of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunga in Colombo on 8 January, exactly ... More >>
Indonesia: Unjust Democracy
Saturday, 11 April 2009, 2:37 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
As Indonesia takes part in its third parliamentary election under a new order regime, one might be tempted to see it emerging as a modern, democratic state that has overcome its atrocious decades of military rule. But appearances here are deceiving. In 1998 ... More >>
Internally Displaced Persons Trapped By Conflict
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 1:02 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
COLOMBO - The Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the HumanRights of Internally Displaced Persons, Walter Kälin, expressed urgent concerns today for the lives of over 100,000 civilians trapped in the 14-square kilometre area of the Vanni declared ... More >>
Philippines: 'State Of Emergency'
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 1:01 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by the unilateral declaration of Abdusakur M. Tan, governor of Sulu province in Mindanao, placing the entire province under a 'State of Emergency'; and urges the latter to immediately lift the declaration ... More >>
