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Sri Lanka Focuses On Institutional Failure
Wednesday, 4 February 2009, 9:41 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The 61st celebration of the Day of Independence of Sri Lanka takes place tomorrow amidst almost universal complaints within the country of the failures of governance at all levels. In 1931 Sri Lanka had the privilege of being one of the first countries ... More >>
Journalists Covering Zarina Mari Case Threatened
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 4:23 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), a public relations department of the armed forces of Pakistan denied the allegations that Ms. Zarina Marri (23) was in a military torture cell and used as a sex slave to induce arrested nationalist activists ... More >>
Blasphemy Charges For Man And Four Children
Saturday, 31 January 2009, 4:04 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Four children and one man have been arbitrarily arrested and charged with blasphemy at the request of Muslim radicals More >>
Recovering the authority of public institutions
Saturday, 24 January 2009, 1:00 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
SRI LANKA: A new book, Recovering the authority of public institutions – a resource book on law and human rights in Sri Lanka More >>
PAKISTAN: Zarina Marri still missing
Saturday, 24 January 2009, 12:57 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission has received further details in the case of Ms. Zarina Marri, a 23-year-old schoolteacher from Balochistan province, who has been held incommunicado in an army torture cell at Karachi, the capital of Sindh province ... More >>
Massive displacement of Sri Lanka civilians
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 2:05 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
A Statement from the International Committee of the Red Cross forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission More >>
Freedom Of Expression Debate Follows Assassination
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 10:16 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The assassination of Lasantha Wickramatunga and his last powerful message has given rise to a discussion on the state of freedom of expression in Sri Lanka. A local group, Vikalpa, has published online a series of comments by journalists and others ... More >>
India: Eviction Of 5000 Persons
Thursday, 15 January 2009, 9:29 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
With grave concern I am writing to you for your immediate intervention following the fact that today at about 3.00 p.m. we were informed that more 5000 persons are going to be evicted from their lawful possession near Belgachia Bhagar (Howrah Municipal ... More >>
Bangladesh: Attorney And Prosecutorial System
Thursday, 15 January 2009, 9:27 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Attorney General of Bangladesh, Mr Salahuddin Ahmed, resigned from his position on January 12, 2009. He was quoted in BD News24.com, a Bangladeshi wire news agency, as saying that he submitted his resignation "…in line with the tradition that the ... More >>
Pakistan: The Operation Of Military Torture Cells
Thursday, 15 January 2009, 9:26 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Munir Mengal, the managing director of a Balochi language television channel, was arrested by the state intelligence agencies on 4 April, 2006, at the Karachi International Airport and held in a military torture cell at Karachi, the capital of Sindh province ... More >>
Indonesia: Human Rights In 2009
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 11:19 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
2009 will be the year of politics -- electoral politics to be precise. Thus, when one attempts to speculate on the human rights situation next year, the result will probably take a very political slant. Human rights will be positioned against the ... More >>
Prosecution in the Philippines
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 11:18 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
When the five senior public prosecutors, including the chief of the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor (OCSP), were placed on an indefinite leave on 11 January 2009 to comply with orders from President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, it rather exposed the ... More >>
Sri Lanka: The Government Should Bow To The Public
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 11:14 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Large crowds gathered to attend the funeral of the well-known journalist and editor, Lasantha Wickramatunga and protest against his assassination. Many participants wore black arm bands and scarves and in many other ways demonstrated their anger at this ... More >>
Young Women Forced Into Sexual Slavery
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 9:59 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Ms. Zarina Marri, a 23-year-old schoolteacher from Balochistan province, was arrested in late 2005, and has been held incommunicado in an army torture cell at Karachi, the capital of Sindh province. She has been repeatedly raped by the military officers ... More >>
Sri Lanka: A Few Articles On The Assassinated
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 9:57 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
As a tribute to the slain journalist we reproduce below some articles from latest edition of the Sunday Leader (January 11, 2009) of which Lasantha Wickramatunga was the founder and chief editor. The full edition of this newspaper may be viewed at: ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Assassination Of A Senior Journalist
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 9:53 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The assassination of Lasantha Wickramatunga, a veteran investigative journalist and the editor of the Sunday Leader, who has exposed corruption and abuse of power by the Rajapakse regime, has sparked the most widespread protest in recent times. Despite ... More >>
India: Monuments Will Not Save The Dalits
Monday, 12 January 2009, 11:42 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a political party that has contested elections harnessing the Dalit votes. The BSP's woman leader, Ms. Mayawati, a dalit herself, has been claiming that her party and the Uttar Pradesh state government she leads, is actively ... More >>
Open Letter to Leila De Lima
Sunday, 11 January 2009, 1:44 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
PHILIPPINES: Re: Abadilla Five's nearly 13-year-old complaint over human rights violation remains pending at the Ombudsman More >>
Pakistan: Police Officers Must Be Charged
Friday, 9 January 2009, 10:36 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The enquiry into the murder of four traders in Bahadur Abad of Karachi-Sindh province has revealed 'criminal negligence' on the part of the police officers. The murder happened on the intervening night of 30 and 31 December 2008, which the police had ... More >>
Sri Lanka: A Senior Editor Assassinated
Friday, 9 January 2009, 10:34 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission, which two days ago raised the alarm on the possibility of more political assassinations in Sri Lanka is saddened by the confirmation of this within less than 48 hours by the assassination of Lasantha Wickramatunga, a ... More >>
