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Cambodia: Government's Stand Against Prosecution
Wednesday, 8 April 2009, 2:50 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
In the immediate period leading to the trial of Khmer Rouge Prison Chief Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, on 30 March, there was a disagreement between the international and the national co-prosecutors of the Cambodian UN-assisted Khmer Rouge Tribunal ... More >>
Pakistan: State Authorities Support The Taliban
Wednesday, 8 April 2009, 2:48 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Internet-broadcasted public flogging of a young girl by Taliban members in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) has enraged sections of Pakistan society, and given a taste of the newly-brokered brand of religious justice in Swat. The beating ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Conviction Of Former Magistrate
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 3:51 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
On 27 March, the Mathara High Court sentenced former magistrate, Ms. Shyamini Mihinchiarachchi, to 45 years imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 60,000 (USD 600) on charges of entering false information in court documents pertaining to fines; fraud and soliciting bribes. ... More >>
Philippines: Investigation To 'Vigilante Killings'
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 3:49 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
As the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) welcomes the investigation that the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is conducting into 'vigilante killings' in Davao City, it holds reservations as to how it will pursue the inquiry. It should not only be just another ... More >>
Judge Humiliates Teenage Rape Victim
Monday, 30 March 2009, 12:20 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The attitude of a Pakistani judge toward a teenage gang rape victim has caused widespread outrage, throwing the training of the country’s judicial figures into question. On March 25, 2008, additional district and sessions judge Nizar Ali Khawaja conducted ... More >>
Preventing Tuberculosis In India
Friday, 27 March 2009, 12:02 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
India is the highest Tuberculosis burdened country in the world accounting for one fifth of the global incidence of the dreadful disease. It has remained so for the past three years. This is according to the report published by the Central TB Division ... More >>
Myanmar: Special Humanitarian Request
Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 2:00 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing this special appeal to you out of grave concern that a person currently being detained in Myanmar is seriously incapacitated and could die for want of adequate medical attention. More >>
Sri Lanka: East Has Become Bihar-Like
Tuesday, 24 March 2009, 12:34 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Sri Lankans looked at their TV screens and newspapers last week with shock and shame as the story of the abduction and killing of six year old Varsha Jude Regi of Trincomalee came to the attention of the entire nation. Although much has been talked and written ... More >>
rights abuses and crimes against humanity
Friday, 20 March 2009, 12:54 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
"Certain actions being undertaken by the Sri Lankan military and by the LTTE may constitute violations of international human rights and humanitarian law." Pillay said. "We need to know more about what is going on, but we know enough to be sure ... More >>
Cambodia: Eliminating opportunists in land dispute
Friday, 20 March 2009, 12:25 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Cambodian government’s drive for the all out development and beautification of urban centres has created one of the most serious problems for its people. This particular problem is widely known as land grabbing. It is characterized by the grabbing ... More >>
march of the lawyers restores the chief justice
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 12:09 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Clearly demonstrating the iron will of the people of Pakistan to return to the rule of law and reassert the independence of the judiciary the people took to the streets, lead by the great movement of the lawyers and ready for the long haul. The announcement ... More >>
Cambodia: Where The Ruled And Rulers Meet
Friday, 13 March 2009, 10:53 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Cambodia's constitution which the Constituent Assembly issued from the UN-organised election had adopted in 1993 has established an institution of direct democracy called National Congress. This is the congress of people where, according to Article 147 ... More >>
Guilt By Relation Renders Due Process Meaningless
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 11:50 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
On March 4, 20-year-old Rebelyn Pitao, the daughter of a rebel leader in Mindanao, was reported to have been forcibly abducted by unknown armed men, from a passenger motorcycle she was riding on in Talomo District, Davao City. She was on her way home ... More >>
AHRC strongly condemns police raid on news outlet
Saturday, 7 March 2009, 1:58 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
According to an announcement issued today on the website of Prachatai, one of the few independent and outspoken media outlets operating in Thailand, More >>
Sri Lanka: Two Lawyers File Action Before The S.C.
Friday, 6 March 2009, 10:58 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
A fundamental rights petition has been filed by two lawyers against the Inspector General of Police and 12 other police officers. This petition will be argued before the Supreme Court today (5th March) by a group of senior lawyers lead by Mr. Faiz ... More >>
Cambodia Needs A Rights-Based NGO Law
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 12:41 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
In 1991 two accords were concluded to end the war that had ravaged Cambodia for so many years. These accords assigned the UN to keep the peace, organize the election of a new government and administer Cambodia for some 18 months, in 1992 and 1993, ... More >>
Asia's No-Law Zones Plunge Into Anarchy
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 12:40 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Several events which have taken place in recent weeks remind us of the deepening of the crises in the region. In Bangladesh, in The Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) 55 officers, Seven civilians including two officer’s wives, were killed by lower ranking officers. ... More >>
PHILIPPINES: Criminal Charges Against Activists
Sunday, 1 March 2009, 12:07 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
While incidents of extra-judicial killings targeting human rights and political activists have declined in recent years, which is welcomed, the authorities are instead now making use of the courts to target such activists, undermining the rule of law in ... More >>
Triple Murder Within Negombo Prison
Sunday, 1 March 2009, 12:06 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Three prisoners were killed within the premises of the Negombo prison last week. One of the prisoners shot two others with a pistol he had in his possession. Thereafter, he climbed into a tree and announced that he would surrender only if the commissioner ... More >>
The Murder Of Journalist Musa Khankhel
Sunday, 1 March 2009, 12:05 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The world was reminded of the tragic paradoxes that take place daily in Pakistan, when a young journalist was kidnapped and executed last month while covering a march for peace. Mr. Musa Khankhel, journalist and correspondent of Geo Television disappeared ... More >>
