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2005 AHRC Press Releases
 
THAILAND/ BURMA: Don't expect Surakiart to help Burma, AHRC says - 2006-08-04

ASIA: Three widows named for two more international awards - 2006-04-13

BOOK REVIEW: An X- ray of the Sri Lankan policing system & torture of the poor - 2005-12-23

PHILIPPINES: Claim that corncobs part of staple diet is "absurd", says AHRC - 2005-12-23

INDONESIA: All those responsible for activist's death should be prosecuted, urges AHRC - 2005-12-21

NEPAL: Police raid another FM station to silence media - 2005-12-08

ASIA: Rule of law is surest safeguard for human rights, AHRC says on Human Rights Day - 2005-12-07

BANGLADESH: A society floundering in corruption, fear and arbitrary killings - 2005-12-07

BURMA: Burma sinking deeper into un-rule of law, AHRC warns - 2005-12-07

CAMBODIA: Country in "human rights limbo," says AHRC - 2005-12-07

INDIA: Government must rebuild rule of law under constitutional obligations - 2005-12-07

INDONESIA: Munir trial reveals dire rule of law situation, says AHRC report - 2005-12-07

NEPAL: His Majesty must restore parliament to criminalise torture and forced disappearances - 2005-12-07

PHILIPPINES: Government must end delay and act to protect citizens' rights - 2005-12-07

SOUTH KOREA: Government must use laws to protect diversity, not smother minority dissent - 2005-12-07

SRI LANKA: Deliberate neglect of UN recommendations adds to country's lawlessness - 2005-12-07

THAILAND: Government of Thailand harbors systematic impunity for killings, torture and disappearances - 2005-12-07

SOUTH KOREA: AHRC calls for government to investigate farmer’s death after alleged police beating - 2005-11-30

PAKISTAN: Tension still simmering in Sangla Hill over alleged Quran desecration, AHRC warns - 2005-11-30

THAILAND: AHRC again criticizes prosecution lawyers' handling of Somchai case - 2005-11-24

THAILAND: Support demands of disappeared lawyer's wife, AHRC urges - 2005-11-23

SRI LANKA: New Sri Lankan president urged to address "constitutional deadlock" - 2005-11-23

PHILIPPINES: High time for Philippine government to pass anti-torture legislation - 2005-11-23

INDIA: Children suffer from empty rhetoric and ineffective schemes - 2005-11-18

[ALRC Press Release] NEPAL: Nepal misleads the UN over systematic impunity: killer of a 15-year-old girl still free - 2005-11-17

SRI LANKA: Election victors must avoid an immediate constitutional crisis - 2005-11-17

INDONESIA: Investigation demanded into attack on human rights defenders outside Munir trial - 2005-11-17

BURMA: District court throws out appeals by Burmese human rights defender and teacher - 2005-11-15

[ALRC Press Release] SRI LANKA: Sri Lankan delegates to U.N. Committee against Torture give firm undertakings to curb torture - 2005-11-15

NEPAL: Proposed code of conduct an attempt to control NGOs and international cooperation - 2005-11-10

INDONESIA: Two students shot in recent wave of violence in Poso, Sulawesi - 2005-11-10

INDIA: Girls allegedly released from forced prostitution should receive rehabilitation - 2005-11-09

SRI LANKA: Danish group tells U.N. Committee of police torture in Sri Lanka - 2005-11-08

THAILAND: State takes farmer to court for his community radio station - 2005-11-07

THAILAND: AHRC says public prosecutors in Somchai case "incompetent" - 2005-11-04

INDIA: Inaction over death of West Bengali man allegedly assaulted over goat - 2005-11-03

THAILAND: AHRC urges UK Foreign Office to keep BBC Thai service - 2005-11-02

SRI LANKA: Calls for investigation into young man's death after alleged detention by Koswatte police - 2005-11-01

INDONESIA: Independent monitoring needed for hearing into human rights activist's murder - 2005-10-31

THAILAND: AHRC launches webpage on missing Thai human rights lawyer - 2005-10-31

NEPAL: International investigation needed into government raid on Kathmandu radio station - 2005-10-27

SINGAPORE: AHRC calls for moratorium on impending execution - 2005-10-26

THAILAND: Don't change judge in case of missing human rights lawyer, AHRC urges Thai courts - 2005-10-26

[ALRC Press Release] SRI LANKA: Committee against Torture urged to take special measures to curb systematic and widespread police torture in Sri Lanka - 2005-10-24

SRI LANKA: Prevalence of torture in Sri Lanka; Persisting problems and outstanding issues - 2005-10-21

BURMA: Human rights defender Ma Su Su Nwe jailed in "vicious" act of revenge - 2005-10-14

SRI LANKA: AHRC calls for domestic and international probes into attack on HRC - 2005-10-14

INDIA: Victims of hunger and discrimination are heard in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh - 2005-09-30

PHILIPPINES: Sacked farm workers in Mindanao forced to eat poisonous frogs to survive - 2005-09-28

INDIA: "I tied my father's corpse to some boulders and let it go into the river": Voices of West Bengal's hungry & destitute - 2005-09-27

INDIA: AHRC calls on UP chief minister to act on starvation deaths or resign - 2005-09-26

INDIA: Outrage as West Bengal police beat Jalangi villager to death - 2005-09-20

INDIA: Jalangi villagers elated at being included in welfare schemes - 2005-09-08

THAILAND: 'We were tortured', defendants tell Thai court - 2005-08-27

THAILAND: Witness testifies to seeing Thai human rights lawyer abducted - 2005-08-25

SRI LANKA: Patient unable to attend court, kept in chains - 2005-08-11

THAILAND: AHRC slams Thai justice minister over torturer's court appearance, accuses Thai officials of "spreading falsehoods" at U.N. - 2005-07-22

INDIA: Local official flees protesting starved villagers in West Bengal, leaves thugs to attack - 2005-07-20

INDIA: Violence imminent over starvation in West Bengal, AHRC warns governor - 2005-07-18

SRI LANKA: Movement for legal reform hits the streets of Sri Lanka - 2005-07-13

INDONESIA: AHRC urges Indonesian MPs to recommend tribunal on Trisakti and Semanggi killings - 2005-07-08

PHILIPPINES: AHRC voices concern over ongoing delays in trial in the Philippines - 2005-07-08

PHILIPPINES: AHRC reports on starvation in Philippines - 2005-07-04

INDIA: Group meets with Indian government officials over starvation - 2005-07-04

INDIA: AHRC accuses West Bengal authorities of threatening starving villagers - 2005-06-30

THAILAND: Thai justice minister challenged on another genital electrocution case - 2005-06-22

THAILAND: Police five-bullet suicide case "ridiculous", AHRC tells Thai justice minister - 2005-06-16

INDIA: Three starve to death due to Uttar Pradesh authorities' negligence - 2005-06-09

THAILAND: Thai police "aiming to sabotage" missing-persons centre, AHRC says - 2005-06-09

BURMA: Burmese police officer convicted of assault - 2005-06-03

THAILAND: U.N. representative expresses "great concern" over missing Thai rights lawyer - 2005-06-03

PHILIPPINES: Philippine president orders probe on activists' killings - 2005-06-02

SRI LANKA: AHRC slams Sri Lankan medical officers' body for attempt to obstruct justice - 2005-05-27

SRI LANKA: Sri Lankan attorney general praised for filing torture case in high court - 2005-05-20

SRI LANKA: Victim's account ignored by doctors, media in leg amputation case - 2005-05-18

THAILAND: Thai groups, media urged to be more active on missing-persons centre - 2005-05-18

SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka must end unreasonable delay of justice - 2005-05-06

PHILIPPINES: Philippine gov't assures of assistance to massacre survivors - 2005-05-03

INDIA: AHRC urges India to improve human rights amid U.N. chief's visit - 2005-04-27

[ALRC Press Release] THAILAND: U.N. hears that missing Thai rights defender's wife doubts sincerity of authorities - 2005-04-19

[ALRC Press Release] ASIA: ALRC statement on 'What can be done when nothing can be done?' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-19

THAILAND: Wife of missing Thai human rights lawyer "fearing for her safety" - 2005-04-19

[ALRC Press Release] THAILAND: Torture rife in Thailand, U.N. told - 2005-04-19

[ALRC Press Release] SRI LANKA: ALRC statement on 'Poor quality staff undermining work of Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-18

PHILIPPINES: Philippines urged to probe alleged links between officers and killings - 2005-04-18

INDIA: West Bengal commission criticised over contempt for rights defenders - 2005-04-15

[ALRC Press Release] THAILAND: U.N. disappearances group receives formal complaint on missing Thai lawyer - 2005-04-15

[ALRC Press Release] SRI LANKA: ALRC statement on 'Implementation of the First Optional Protocol of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in Sri Lanka' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-13

PHILIPPINES: AHRC condemns unrestrained killings of activists in Philippines - 2005-04-13

[ALRC Press Release] BHUTAN: ALRC statement on 'Prolonging the crisis of Bhutanese refugees' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-11

SRI LANKA: President urged to seek Saudi king's clemency for 3 workers - 2005-04-08

[ALRC Press Release] THAILAND: ALRC statement on 'Witness protection and compensation for victims of rights abuses in Thailand' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-07

[ALRC Press Release] NEPAL: ALRC statement on 'Gross acts of violence against children and zero rule of law in Nepal' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-07

[ALRC Press Release] THAILAND: ALRC statement on 'Flawed policing, maladministration of justice and forensic science in Thailand' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-06

[ALRC Press Release] BANGLADESH: ALRC statement on 'Dowry-related violence against women in Bangladesh' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-06

[ALRC Press Release] NEPAL: ALRC statement on 'Diabolical torture of women and zero rule of law in Nepal' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-06

[ALRC Press Release] SRI LANKA: ALRC statement on 'Rape and the failure to provide justice in Sri Lanka' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-06

[ALRC Press Release] SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka urged to fulfil int'l obligations over rights protection - 2005-04-06

[ALRC Press Release] THAILAND: ALRC statement on 'Criminal defamation and growing restrictions to freedom of expression in Thailand' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-05

[ALRC Press Release] EAST TIMOR: ALRC statement on 'Justice for victims of East Timor's 1999 violence' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-05

[ALRC Press Release] SRI LANKA: ALRC statement on 'Declaration of emergency in Sri Lanka' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-05

[ALRC Press Release] THAILAND: ALRC statement on 'Mass extra-judicial killings and impunity in Thailand' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-04

[ALRC Press Release] THAILAND: ALRC statement on 'Mass extra-judicial killings and impunity in Thailand' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-04

[ALRC Press Release] MYANMAR: ALRC statement on 'Impunity and the un-rule of law in Myanmar' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-04

[ALRC Press Release] NEPAL: ALRC statement on 'Zero rule of law in Nepal' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-04

[ALRC Press Release] SOUTH ASIA: ALRC statement on 'The right to fair trial in South Asia' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-04

[ALRC Press Release] SRI LANKA: ALRC statement on 'Threats and intimidation to those who seek justice in Sri Lanka' was received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-04

[ALRC Press Release] NEPAL: ALRC statement on 'Enforced disappearances and zero rule of law in Nepal' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-01

[ALRC Press Release] SRI LANKA: ALRC statement on 'Enforced or involuntary disappearances in Sri Lanka' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-01

[ALRC Press Release] ASIA: ALRC statement on 'Freedom of expression in Asia' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-01

[ALRC Press Release] THAILAND: ALRC statement on 'Disappearance of a prominent human rights lawyer and impunity in Thailand' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-01

[ALRC Press Release] CAMBODIA: ALRC statement on 'Farcical and illegal trial without witnesses in Cambodia' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-01

[ALRC Press Release] INDIA: ALRC statement on 'Delayed justice dispensation system destroying rule of law in India' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-04-01

[ALRC Press Release] BANGLADESH: Statement on 'Torture in Bangladesh' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-03-31

[ALRC Press Release] THAILAND: ALRC statement on 'Growth of torture and impunity in Thailand' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-03-31

[ALRC Press Release] INDIA: Statement on 'Custodial deaths and torture in India' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-03-31

[ALRC Press Release] MALAYSIA: ALRC statement on 'Treatment of detainees under Malaysia's Internal Security Act' received by - 2005-03-31

[ALRC Press Release] NEPAL: ALRC statement on 'Torture and zero rule of law in Nepal' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-03-31

[ALRC Press Release] SRI LANKA: ALRC statement on 'Threats to lives of torture victims in Sri Lanka and the lack of witness protection' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-03-31

[ALRC Press Release] INDIA: "Administrative brutality" the cause of child deaths in India ALRC tells U.N. - 2005-03-31

[ALRC Press Release] ASIA: ALRC statement on 'Hunger in Asia' received by Commission on Human Rights - 2005-03-29

NEPAL: U.N. says it will review Nepali army's peacekeeping participation - 2005-03-25

THAILAND: Report to U.N. Human Rights Committee on Thailand released - 2005-03-24

INDIA: Protesters demand UNICEF to save starving children in West Bengal - 2005-03-23

INDIA: Child dies of hunger, falling victim to India's apathy - 2005-03-16

SRI LANKA: Discontent grows among tsunami-hit families left in destitution - 2005-03-14

THAILAND: AHRC petitions Thai King over one-year absence of rights lawyer - 2005-03-11

NEPAL: 14 groups alert Int'l Criminal Court to Nepal's crimes against humanity - 2005-03-07

NEPAL: U.N. urged to bar Nepali army from peacekeeping operations - 2005-03-03

NEPAL: Regional rights bodies urged to take joint actions over Nepal - 2005-02-28

THAILAND: Thai government slammed over missing human rights lawyer - 2005-02-24

SRI LANKA: Stop customs duties on relief goods to tsunami victims - 2005-02-18

INDIA: UNICEF India "not interested" in child deaths - 2005-02-11

INDIA: AHRC presses West Bengal authorities on rights abuses - 2005-02-10

SRI LANKA: Court slammed for jailing prisoners for contempt over chicken faeces - 2005-02-04

SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka urged to do mental tests on police to stop habitual abusers - 2005-01-26

NEPAL: Nepal drowning in madness of barbarity with no rule of law - 2005-01-20

SRI LANKA: President urged to honour duty of ensuring MP's safety - 2005-01-14

SRI LANKA: AHRC calls for accountability in running aid funds in Sri Lanka - 2005-01-12

SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka's AG erred in excluding 2 police officers from torture charges - 2005-01-07

SRI LANKA: Another Sri Lankan torture victim threatened - 2005-01-06

Indonesia urged to work with aid agencies to speed up relief in Aceh - 2005-01-05

SRI LANKA: Bodies of tsunami victims in Sri Lanka buried without identification - 2005-01-03


 
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