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Search this section: Advanced Search	AHRC Statements 2008   PAKISTAN: Police officer named in case of hostage taking of women and children appointed enquiry officer in murder inquiry of Taslim Solangi - 2008-12-30 BANGLADESH: New government must fulfill people's expectations - 2008-12-30 SRI LANKA: A president's counsel and several lawyers blamed by the Sri Lankan government for regularly appearing for detainees charged with terrorists activities - 2008-12-28 CAMBODIA: Denial of free speech in the Parliament must be removed - 2008-12-23 SRI LANKA: The one-man show is unworkable - 2008-12-23 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] PAKISTAN: People's Declaration on Agrarian Reforms - 2008-12-23 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] CAMBODIA: Supreme Court must deliver justice - 2008-12-23 PAKISTAN: SHC adjourns the hearing in case of making eight women and four children hostages by the police till January 15, 2009 - 2008-12-23 SRI LANKA: Corruption and sovereignty - 2008-12-22 INDIA: The AHRC condemns the two Indian bar associations who have resolved to deny legal representation to a Mumbai terrorist - 2008-12-22 SRI LANKA: A war against the judiciary - 2008-12-19 BANGLADESH: Indemnity for perpetrators will further encourage a military coup in Bangladesh - 2008-12-19 [AHRC Article] SRI LANKA: Part six of an article; the Interim Report of the Parliamentary Committee on NGOs is flawed from the point of view of policy, science and law - 2008-12-19 [AHRC Article] SRI LANKA: The Interim Report of the Parliamentary Committee on NGOs is flawed from the point of view of policy, science and law - 2008-12-19 [AHRC Article] SRI LANKA: Part four and five of an article; the Interim Report of the Parliamentary Committee on NGOs is flawed from the point of view of policy, science and law - 2008-12-18 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] THAILAND: Request state officers to respect human rights and rule of law if detaining people - 2008-12-17 [AHRC Article] SRI LANKA: Part three of the Interim Report of the Parliamentary Committee on NGOs is flawed from the point of view of policy, science and law - 2008-12-17 [AHRC Article] SRI LANKA: Part two of the Interim Report of the Parliamentary Committee on NGOs is flawed from the point of view of policy, science and law - 2008-12-16 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] BANGLADESH: Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) endorses the call for a return to the rule of law in Bangladesh - 2008-12-16 INDIA: Jesus Christ is no guarantee to impunity - 2008-12-15 [AHRC Article] SRI LANKA: The Interim Report of the Parliamentary Committee on NGOs is flawed from the point of view of policy, science and law - 2008-12-12 [AHRC Open Letter] PAKISTAN: Re: Sou Moto action is sought in the case of eight women and four children made hostage by the Sindh police - 2008-12-11 SRI LANKA: Further politicisation of the Attorney General's Department expected - 2008-12-11 [Human Rights Day] PAKISTAN: The government must take cognisance of human right violations in the country and make the ICESCR, ICCPR and CAT part of the country's laws - 2008-12-11 PAKISTAN: Police forced to release eight women and four children after holding them as hostages for 16 days – arrestees allegedly manhandled by officers in captivity - 2008-12-11 [Human Rights Day] PHILIPPINES: Subverted justice deprives protection of rights - 2008-12-11 [Human Rights Day] BANGLADESH: Nation is urged to initiate reforms for rescuing human rights from the arbitrariness and the State of Emergency - 2008-12-10 [Human Rights Day] INDIA: Poor policing is an obstacle to human rights - 2008-12-10 [Human Rights Day] INDONESIA: Killings continue after 10 years of reformation - 2008-12-10 [Human Rights Day] SRI LANKA: Human rights situation is much worse than 60 years ago - 2008-12-10 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] WORLD: United Nations heading for failure on 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 2008-12-09 [AHRC Article] ASIA: Protection of human rights in non-rule of law countries - institutional reforms in the administration of justice must be given primacy of place - 2008-12-08 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: The killing of a religious leader - 2008-12-05 [AHRC Resolution] BANGLADESH: The government must address the dire state of rule of law - 2008-12-05 SRI LANKA: Has the Attorney General violated the Penal Code? - 2008-12-05 THAILAND: Police must prosecute Government House occupiers - 2008-12-05 PAKISTAN: The government shows disinterest or impotence in the case of eight women and four children being held hostage by the police - 2008-12-04 SRI LANKA: Lawlessness in Negombo and the policemen's plea to the president to cancel their transfers - 2008-12-03 INDIA: 'Super cop' is no solution to terrorist threat - 2008-12-02 PAKISTAN: Eight women and four children made hostage by police in order to secure the arrest of a dacoit - 2008-11-30 THAILAND: Parliament must sit to end impasse - 2008-11-30 [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] BURMA: International Bar Association writes on case of two lawyers jailed for contempt - 2008-11-28 PHILIPPINES: Lack of independence and political interference undermining prosecution system - 2008-11-28 SRI LANKA: Law, a threatened profession - 2008-11-28 SRI LANKA: The age of misrepresentation and the No Fact Zone - 2008-11-27 [AHRC Forwarded Article] PAKISTAN: Address of the deposed Chief Justice of the Pakistan Supreme Court, Mr. Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, to the Harvard Law School - 2008-11-27 INDIA: Terrorist attacks in Mumbai is an act of cowardice - 2008-11-27 [AHRC Forwarded Article] PAKISTAN: Address of the deposed Chief Justice of the Pakistan Supreme Court, Mr. Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, to the New York City Bar Association - 2008-11-26 THAILAND: Watershed moment for democracy and rule of law - 2008-11-26 [AHRC Resolution] INDIA: Resolution of the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of Law on the systemic failure of the prosecution system in India - 2008-11-26 [AHRC Forwarded Article] PAKISTAN: "US Middle East Policy: Pathways to Renewal:" - 2008-11-25 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Human Rights Situation Deteriorating in the East - 2008-11-25 [AHRC Resolution] SRI LANKA: Resolution of the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of Law on protection of witnesses, lawyers and journalists in Sri Lanka - 2008-11-25 [AHRC Resolution] PAKISTAN: Resolution of the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of Law in support of the lawyers' movement in Pakistan - 2008-11-24 [AHRC Resolution] BURMA: Resolution of the Fourth Regional Consultation on an Asian Charter for the Rule of Law on the case of Supreme Court advocates U Aung Thein and U Khin Maung Shein - 2008-11-23 SRI LANKA: There is nothing funny about lawyers being named as traitors for doing their jobs as lawyers; getting closer to cannibalism? - 2008-11-19 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SOUTH KOREA: Barbaric crackdown can be tolerated no longer! - 2008-11-17 BURMA: Mad rush to convict exposes criminal injustice system - 2008-11-14 SOUTH KOREA: Presidential commission must be allowed to continue investigations into suspicious military deaths - 2008-11-13 SRI LANKA: A lawyer humiliated at the Bambilipitya Police Station – the case of Mr. D.W.C. Mohotti, Attorney-at-Law - 2008-11-12 [AHRC Forwarded Article] NEPAL: Review of the implementation of recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak, after his mission to Nepal in 2005 - 2008-11-12 BANGLADESH: The second wife of the father sends a 13-year-old girl to a hotel where sex services are provided and files a complaint about others with the collaboration of the police - 2008-11-12 PAKISTAN: The induction of new ministers shows violent, anti-women sentiments seeping back into political vogue - 2008-11-12 SRI LANKA: No effort to investigate the murder of Nishanta Fernando but more effort to eliminate the witnesses (An interview with the widow) - 2008-11-11 SOUTH KOREA: New laws proposed to restrict freedom of assembly and opinion - 2008-11-11 BURMA: A call to all lawyers to defend U Aung Thein and U Khin Maung Shein – two senior Burmese lawyers and human rights defenders illegally sentenced under the pretext of contempt of court - 2008-11-10 BURMA: Two rights lawyers imprisoned for contempt of court - 2008-11-08 PAKISTAN: Government tries to derail the case of a young girl who was shot dead after being mauled by the murderer's dogs - 2008-11-07 SRI LANKA: A prominent politician complains of death threats - 2008-11-07 [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] SRI LANKA: Death threats to Sri Lankan Lawyers - 2008-11-06 WORLD: US election a mandate to end the terrorizing of populations under the pretext of anti terrorism - 2008-11-06 SOUTH KOREA: The government must respect the National Human Rights Commission - 2008-11-05 SRI LANKA: The implications of the death threat from Mahason Balakaya to lawyers, judges and the public - 2008-11-04 PHILIPPINES: Prosecution is not a political tool - 2008-11-04 PAKISTAN: Government must crack down hard on its Jirga courts and the extra-judicial murders they commit - 2008-11-03 SOUTH KOREA: The police should respect the NHRC's recommendations on the candlelight protests - 2008-10-30 SRI LANKA: Mahason Battalion - death squads and lessons from the past (Part three) - 2008-10-29 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] WORLD: Statement by Manfred Nowak - Special Rapporteur on Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment - 2008-10-29 PAKISTAN: Human rights movement is heartened by the stay of execution given to a young man on death row - 2008-10-29 SRI LANKA: Mahason Battalion - death squads and lessons from the past (Part two) - 2008-10-28 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] PHILIPPINES: Human Rights lawyers condemn attack on their ranks - 2008-10-27 SRI LANKA: Mahason Battalion - death squads and lessons from the past - 2008-10-27 PAKISTAN: Black warrant for a young man is issued despite blood money being paid to the victim's family - 2008-10-27 PAKISTAN: A girl is mauled by dogs and later killed on the pretext of an honour killing - 2008-10-26 PAKISTAN: To stop honour killings there must be a bigger crackdown on illegal Jirgas - Getting away with murder in Pakistan - 2008-10-24 [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] SRI LANKA: Request to Appeal against the Judgment of the High Court Judge in Negombo (Case No. HC 259-2003, relating to torture of Mr. Sundara Arachige Lalith Rajapakse) - 2008-10-24 [AHRC Open Letter] SRI LANKA: On defending lawyers against death threats by the Mahason Balakaya - 2008-10-23 INDIA: Why is the eradication of malnutrition a mission impossible? - 2008-10-23 [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] SRI LANKA: Re: Request to Appeal against the Judgment of the High Court judge of Negombo (Case No. 259/2003, relating to the torture of Sundara Arrachige Lalith Rajapakse - 2008-10-23 SRI LANKA: A death squad formation against human rights lawyers needs to be investigated urgently - 2008-10-22 [AHRC Forwarded Article] PAKISTAN: Death Sentences; Election pledges a matter of life or death for inmates - 2008-10-22 SOUTH KOREA: Time to define torture in Penal Code - 2008-10-22 SRI LANKA: No arrest regarding the cases of the lawyer J.C. Weliamuna - the legal profession and civil society need to fight against intimidation and denial of justice - 2008-10-21 SRI LANKA: The faculty of law celebrates its 60th anniversary - amidst the greatest crisis the rule of law ever faced - 2008-10-20 SRI LANKA: Torture, corruption, inquiry into the former IGP and attitude levels of the judiciary - 2008-10-17 SRI LANKA: Imminent execution of three Sri Lankans on Saudi Arabian death row can be prevented only by the Sri Lankan government providing legal fees for their appeals in time - 2008-10-16 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] WORLD: Durban Review Conference must address work and descent-based discrimination that affects 260 million people across the world - 2008-10-16 [ALRC Statement] INDIA: Opposing civil society participation is a threat to democracy - 2008-10-15 SRI LANKA: An acquittal not based on evidence – HC Negombo case of Lalith Rajapakse - 2008-10-15 BANGLADESH: Military dealing with case assignments in the Supreme Court and the systematic smothering of the judiciary - 2008-10-14 [AHRC Open Letter] SRI LANKA: Re: Serious threats to the widow of the assassinated Sugath Nishanta Fernando - 2008-10-13 PAKISTAN: World Day against the Death Penalty, death row inmates moved to ordinary prisons but there is much more to be done - 2008-10-09 SRI LANKA: Supreme Court holds the former president, Chandrika Kumaratunga Bandaranaike responsible for corruption and betrayal of public trust placed on her as the head of the state - 2008-10-09 SRI LANKA: Negombo High Court acquittal of the accused police officer in the torturing of Lalith Rajapakse is overwhelmingly contradictory to the facts in the case and the law relating to torture - 2008-10-09 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Attacks against civilians must cease - 2008-10-08 [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] SRI LANKA: Effective remedies and protection for torture victims in Sri Lanka - 2008-10-06 SAUDI ARABIA/SRI LANKA: Hope in the case of Rizana Nafeek - 2008-10-06 [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] SINGAPORE: An Open Letter to the family of J B Jeyaretnam - 2008-10-06 PAKISTAN: A man is going to be executed by hanging on October 8 - no remedy from the government - 2008-10-06 SRI LANKA: Destroying the Fabric of Society - 2008-10-03 USA/PAKISTAN: Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is removed to a psychological facility and denied access to her family, lawyers and her government - 2008-10-03 SRI LANKA: Threats to the senior lawyer and human rights activist JC Weliamuna continue - 2008-10-01 SRI LANKA: Another complainant – a medical doctor – is assassinated by an army officer - 2008-10-01 [AHRC Open Letter] SRI LANKA: An Open Letter to Lawyers and Bar Associations throughout the world - 2008-09-30 INDIA: Anti-terror law will be misused by extremist political parties - 2008-09-30 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: The plight of the thousands of internally displaced people - 2008-09-29 SRI LANKA: Grenade attack at the house of a senior lawyer: the Bar Association of Sri Lanka should now act to protect the professional dignity and the independence of lawyers - 2008-09-29 SRI LANKA: The AHRC writes to judges in Negombo on the killing of complainants and death threats to lawyers - 2008-09-26 SRI LANKA: Trivialisation of the individual and the romanticisation of the war - as illustrated by the case of Sugath Nishanta Fernando - 2008-09-25 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka is 92nd in the Corruption Perception Index - 2008-09-25 SOUTH KOREA: Why has the conscription system made victims of young men? - 2008-09-24 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] CAMBODIA: The statement by Prof. Yash Ghai to the 9th Session of the Human Rights Council - 2008-09-23 SRI LANKA: The government and the state media is silent about the murder of the complainant in a bribery and a torture case - 2008-09-23 WORLD/PAKISTAN: Pakistani and US State authorities must release information on the two children of Dr. Aafia who remain missing - 2008-09-23 [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] MALAYSIA: Administrative detentions without trial of: Raja Petra Kamaruddin - blogger, Tan Hoon Cheng - journalist, Teresa Kok - Member of Parliament and State Legislative Councilor - 2008-09-22 [AHRC Open Letter] SRI LANKA: A man who sought your protection against death threats from police officers in Negombo was shot dead yesterday - 2008-09-21 SRI LANKA: Another complainant in a torture case shot dead - 2008-09-20 NEPAL: Supreme Court punishes the messenger and ignores the message - 2008-09-19 WORLD/CAMBODIA: An appreciation of the protest by Prof. Yash Ghai at the UN HRC session - 2008-09-18 PAKISTAN: No action taken against Geo TV presenter who incited Muslims to murder members of Pakistan minority on air - 2008-09-18 [AHRC Joint Statement] INDIA: Government of Orissa promotes violence - 2008-09-18 SRI LANKA: Internally displaced persons need speedy action to ensure their security and protection - 2008-09-17 NEPAL: The Government should stop its plan to deport Tibetans without valid refugee certificates to India - 2008-09-17 WORLD/PAKISTAN: UN must demand transparency from three states regarding the ambiguous arrest and detention of Dr Aafia Siddiqui and her three young children - 2008-09-16 WORLD/PAKISTAN: UN mechanisms must intervene in the case of an 11 year-old boy in extended US/Afghan detainment - 2008-09-13 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Female journalist shot, in critical condition - 2008-09-12 SRI LANKA: The Tissainayagam case – abandoning the absolute prohibition against the admissibility of confessions in criminal trials is similar to permitting stabbing in a boxing ring - 2008-09-12 [AHRC Forwarded Article] SRI LANKA: Aid agency dilemma in Sri Lanka - 2008-09-11 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: The speech by the Hon. Mr. Mano Ganesan, Member of Parliament for Colombo District, during the debate on the extension emergency in the Parliament of Sri Lanka on Tuesday September 09th, 2008 - 2008-09-11 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: UN agency concerned for over 10,000 families escaping violence - 2008-09-10 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Ban voices alarm at increased violence in northern Sri Lanka - 2008-09-10 INDIA: Lack of accountability has corrupted the judiciary - 2008-09-10 PAKISTAN: Children of Dr. Afia Siddiqui are removed from Bagram and their whereabouts are unknown and Dr. Afia is denied permission to attend court proceedings - 2008-09-05 CAMBODIA: The Cambodian government must address the election flaws - 2008-09-04 PAKISTAN: Three bodies of the five women buried alive have been removed to destroy vital evidence - 2008-09-04 SRI LANKA: Another case of stupid, silly and nonsensical policing - The case of Prasantha, illegal arrest, detention and torture by the Panadura police - 2008-09-03 SRI LANKA: The UN Human Rights Committee holds JSC to have violated the rights of a judge - 2008-09-03 THAILAND: Emergency decree must be lifted from Bangkok and south alike - 2008-09-02 BANGLADESH: Military must not dominate civil administration - 2008-09-01 BANGLADESH: Appellate Division of Supreme Court's judgment on abdicating bail petitions under emergency laws - 2008-09-01 PAKISTAN: Government should release all disappeared persons in custody of police and intelligence services - 2008-09-01 [AHRC Open Letter] PAKISTAN: The burial of five women while still alive in Balochistan, Pakistan - 2008-09-01 INDIA: Violence in Orissa is a test to democratic values - 2008-08-30 BURMA: Closed courts, absurd law and the exception as norm - 2008-08-29 BANGLADESH: High Court asks government to explain legality of Truth Commission - 2008-08-29 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka found guilty of serious human rights abuses by UN Human Rights Committee - 2008-08-28 [AHRC Book Review] PAKISTAN: The Pakistan Lawyer's Movement – An Unfinished Agenda - 2008-08-28 SRI LANKA: Arbitrary deprivation of life - 2008-08-28 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] PHILIPPINES: More to worry about 13,000 shotguns for civilians in Mindanao - 2008-08-27 BANGLADESH: Rights group challenges legality of Truth Commission in High Court - 2008-08-27 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: A Call To Protect Civilians - 2008-08-27 PAKISTAN: A petition from prisoners waiting on death row - 2008-08-25 PHILIPPINES: Police endorsing vigilantism by arming civilians - 2008-08-23 [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] PHILIPPINES: Abadilla Five write to family of murder victim as they present evidence of their innocence - 2008-08-21 [ALRC Statement] BANGLADESH: Prolonged State of Emergency threatening the judiciary and human rights defenders' ability to work - 2008-08-21 SOUTH KOREA: Forcing female protesters in custody to remove their bras is a form of cruel and inhuman treatment - 2008-08-20 SRI LANKA: Acid thrower remains free and the victim who lost the use of one eye due to the attack is made the accused - 2008-08-19 SRI LANKA: A one-man system – the debate of written and unwritten constitutions - 2008-08-18 PAKISTAN: The people defeat Pakistan's military dictator, General Musharraf - 2008-08-18 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Call for release of website editor accused of terrorism - 2008-08-15 SRI LANKA: Is there a shift from fair trials to political trials? - 2008-08-15 INDONESIA: Independence Day eclipsed by the ongoing struggle for justice for Munir - 2008-08-15 PAKISTAN: Bodies of the five women buried alive desecrated by the wild animals - 2008-08-15 INDIA: Pathetic state of rule of law is the result of caste based discrimination - 2008-08-14 SOUTH KOREA: Amnesty to convicted frauds and tax evaders will undermine the Korean judiciary and the morale of the people - 2008-08-14 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: FMM appalled at police spokesperson's justification of minister's attack on journalists - 2008-08-12 SRI LANKA: Two cases exposing the comic nature of criminal justice in Sri Lanka - 2008-08-12 [AHRC Open Letter] PHILIPPINES: Protection for witnesses of vigilante killings in Davao City urgently needed - 2008-08-11 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Army commander warns newspaper to censor defence columns - 2008-08-08 SRI LANKA: Silly and cruel at the same time - 2008-08-08 WORLD: The US Congress must investigate Dr. Afia's case - 2008-08-07 SOUTH KOREA: Arbitrary arrest for money vs. Assembly without fear of arrest - 2008-08-07 CAMBODIA: Law must be clear about compoundable and non-compoundable offences - 2008-08-05 SOUTH KOREA: Police should be identifiable in order to stop impunity - 2008-08-05 PAKISTAN: FBI is responsible for disappearances, illegal detention and torture - 2008-08-04 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: FMM disturbed over remarks made by the army commander - 2008-08-01 PAKISTAN: Executions continue despite decision of federal cabinet to commute sentences - 2008-08-01 SRI LANKA: National security style operation to force evictions in Colombo - 2008-08-01 BANGLADESH: Government contests the reappointment of judges in Supreme Court - 2008-07-31 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] PHILIPPINES: Court of Appeals' dismissal of amparo petitions encourage extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearance - 2008-07-31 SRI LANKA: Permanent loss of sight in one eye due to cruel and inhuman treatment - 2008-07-29 PAKISTAN: Government is demanding the loyalty of deposed judges prior to reinstating them - 2008-07-29 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Unknown gangs stalk the head of the Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) - 2008-07-24 SRI LANKA: Three lawyers from Kandy complain of death threats - 2008-07-23 SRI LANKA: The law relating to publications - 2008-07-22 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Government officials attack journalists - 2008-07-22 [AHRC Open Letter] SRI LANKA: An appeal to save the life of a witness in the prison murder case in Negombo - 2008-07-22 SRI LANKA: Demoralisation of the armed forces and shared values - 2008-07-21 CAMBODIA: Statutory presumption of bail must be effectively enforced - 2008-07-18 PAKISTAN: Government makes no moves to save the lives of the couple under constant threat of honor killing - 2008-07-18 SRI LANKA: Outlawing discussion on forced disappearances - 2008-07-16 PHILIPPINES: An interview: Surviving in rotten prison, justice system - 2008-07-15 BANGLADESH: Supreme Court observes unelected government's promulgation of ordinances ultra vires and unconstitutional - 2008-07-15 SRI LANKA: Life of a torture victim in danger at Moratuwa Police Station - 2008-07-14 [AHRC Open Letter] SRI LANKA: Illegal inquiries conducted by Colombo Criminal Division (CCD) and the National Investigation Bureau (NIB) against four reputed human rights organisations in Sri Lanka - 2008-07-14 PHILIPPINES: Court delay requires not a temporary relief - 2008-07-14 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Jailed journalist loses appeal for transfer, denied bail - Court Refuses Tisssainayagam Appeal - 2008-07-10 PAKISTAN: Supreme Court denies people the right to life - 2008-07-10 PHILIPPINES: Arbitrary arrest that become de facto legal is endemic - 2008-07-09 [AHRC Joint Statement] INDONESIA: Failure to acknowledge the essence of right to life resulting in more people being executed - 2008-07-07 BANGLADESH: Dysfunctional policing system is useless in upholding the Rule of Law - 2008-07-03 PHILIPPINES: Keeping of records regarding 'vigilante' killings has stopped but the killings go on - 2008-07-03 SRI LANKA: SLPI offers Rs Five Million reward for information on attack on journalist – what will the government do to investigate such crimes - 2008-07-03 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Assault on Journalist Mr. Namal Perera - 2008-07-02 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Collateral damage will be to entire country's detriment - 2008-07-02 SRI LANKA: Assaults and hate speech - 2008-07-02 INDIA: To be a human without caste – part 2 - 2008-06-30 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: State-controlled newspaper publishes dangerous allegations against Sri Lanka Press Institute - 2008-06-30 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Police officials harass independent news website - 2008-06-27 SRI LANKA: Ministry of Human Rights ignores UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture - 2008-06-27 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] INDONESIA: Exposing the silence of torture - 2008-06-27 SRI LANKA: A senior public interest lawyer suspended from legal practice for seven years - 2008-06-27 SOUTH KOREA: Government's failure to realise people's health - 2008-06-27 BANGLADESH: Crimes of the armed forces are not beyond judicial procedures - 2008-06-27 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] PHILIPPINES: The Silence of Torture, the Torture of Silence - 2008-06-26 CAMBODIA: Cambodia needs an independent national mechanism for the prevention of torture, not another government inspection body - 2008-06-25 SRI LANKA: No political will to eradicate torture - 2008-06-25 BANGLADESH: Bangladesh patronises torture instead of criminalising it - 2008-06-25 INDONESIA: International review pointed out country's torture problem - 2008-06-25 PHILIPPINES: Judicial remedy for victims of torture must be adopted too - 2008-06-25 PAKISTAN: No prohibition of torture in domestic law - 2008-06-25 NEPAL: Criminalizing torture is an important step to ensure the transitional justice - 2008-06-25 INDIA: Empty rhetoric preaching human rights will not prevent torture - 2008-06-25 THAILAND: Paying lip-service to addressing torture - 2008-06-25 PAKISTAN: The AHRC welcomes commuting of death sentences to life imprisonment - 2008-06-24 BANGLADESH: Rule of Law institutions of Bangladesh worship corruption - 2008-06-23 [AHRC Forwarded Article] SRI LANKA: Integrity of Recruitment in Sri Lanka Foreign Service - A debate on Governance Issues - 2008-06-19 SRI LANKA: Ninety two lawyers from Kandy complain of failure of the court to take action against unprofessional conduct - 2008-06-19 INDIA: To be a human without caste - part 1 - 2008-06-19 SRI LANKA: Human rights abuses and technical assistance from the west - 2008-06-18 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: State broadcasting official publicly issues dire warnings against two journalists - 2008-06-16 BURMA: Government-organised thugs testify in court - 2008-06-13 INDIA: Paranoia to human rights work is not good - 2008-06-13 BANGLADESH: Police chief admits abuse of emergency laws - 2008-06-12 PHILIPPINES: Investigation into the abduction of a peace advocate and a journalist disturbing - 2008-06-11 PAKISTAN: Government should not use force against lawyer's long march - 2008-06-10 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Ministry of Defence viciously attacks independent media - 2008-06-06 CAMBODIA: Ban on election campaign references to the monarchy is unconstitutional - 2008-06-05 PAKISTAN: 52 illegal torture and detention centres identified - 2008-06-05 [AHRC Open Letter] PHILIPPINES: Investigate cases of other forms of arbitrary deprivation of lives, too - 2008-06-04 BANGLADESH: UN Human Rights experts should intervene to stop en masse arbitrary arrest - 2008-06-04 PAKISTAN: Disappearances and torture continue despite new government - no control over secret state agencies - 2008-06-03 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Threat (Sri Lanka Press Institute visited by armed military inquiring about directors, staff) - 2008-06-03 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Group storms journalist's house, warns him against reporting on defence and military matters - 2008-06-03 SOUTH KOREA: Government must stop excessive use of force on peaceful protesters - 2008-06-03 [ALRC Statement] ASIA: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Extra-judicial Killings and the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers - 2008-06-03 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Media Release-Media Freedom - 2008-06-02 NEPAL: The Constituent Assembly must not delay to rejuvenate the justice mechanisms - 2008-06-02 [ALRC Joint Statement] PHILIPPINES: Interactive Dialogue after the Report of the UNSR on Exrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions - 2008-06-02 CAMBODIA: Momentum for addressing land grabbing should be sustained beyond the next election - 2008-05-30 SRI LANKA: An imminent threat to the life of a torture victim - 2008-05-30 BANGLADESH: 14 years' detention without trial invokes Bangladesh to reform its rule of law institutions - 2008-05-29 [AHRC Open Letter] SRI LANKA: Please take immediate steps to save the lives of journalists facing threats in Sri Lanka - 2008-05-29 [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] SRI LANKA: Reprimand of senior journalists unacceptable - 2008-05-29 PAKISTAN: Restoration of judiciary 'put on ice' - new government must keep its election promise by restoring deposed judiciary - 2008-05-28 BANGLADESH: A weary High Court suggests appellant seek bail from Allah - 2008-05-28 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Senior journalist and Deputy Editor abducted and severely beaten - 2008-05-26 SOUTH KOREA: Massive arrest of protesters is imminent - 2008-05-26 BANGLADESH: Culture of supersession in Supreme Court will undermine rule of law - 2008-05-26 BANGLADESH: High Court judgement on bail petition under emergency laws - 2008-05-23 BANGLADESH: Supreme Court holds that Election Commission has violated the Constitution - 2008-05-23 [AHRC Open Letter] PHILIPPINES: Supreme Court is requested to review Abadilla Five case urgently - 2008-05-23 SRI LANKA: Internal repression internationally condemned - 2008-05-22 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: GoSL lies to the UN Working Group of Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - 2008-05-22 [ALRC Statement] BANGLADESH: The booming business of arbitrary arrests and detention under the State of Emergency - 2008-05-22 [ALRC Statement] BANGLADESH: Council member failing to take even minimal steps to address widespread torture within its borders - 2008-05-22 [ALRC Statement] PHILIPPINES: A series of unsolved murders reveals the lack of investigations into even the worst crimes in the country - 2008-05-22 [ALRC Statement] BANGLADESH: Council member failing to take even minimal steps to address widespread torture within its borders - 2008-05-22 [ALRC Statement] BANGLADESH: The booming business of arbitrary arrests and detention under the State of Emergency - 2008-05-22 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: UN: Vote Sri Lanka off Human Rights Council - 2008-05-20 SRI LANKA: The Murder trial of Gerald Perera - threat to life of an important witness - 2008-05-20 [AHRC Joint Statement] CAMBODIA: Ban on peaceful public demonstrations is unconstitutional - 2008-05-20 [AHRC Joint Open Letter] ASIA: Asian NGOs call on UN member-states to reject Sri Lanka's Human Rights Council election bid - 2008-05-20 [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] ASIA: Open letter to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers' special meeting on 19 May 2008 - 2008-05-19 BURMA: From Dictator Ne Win to Cyclone Nargis - Burmese catastrophe continues - 2008-05-19 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: FMM condemns web terrorism against Lanka Dissent - 2008-05-19 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Flawed Democracy and Prosecution of War Cannot Win Peace - 2008-05-19 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] BURMA/THAILAND : Demands immediate response by ASEAN for victims of Cyclone Nargis in Burma - 2008-05-19 SRI LANKA: Comments by Presidential Commission of Inquiry confirm IIGEP concerns - 2008-05-19 [ALRC Forwarded Statement] INDIA: Concluding Observations issued by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 2008-05-19 BURMA: Worst response ever to a disaster - 2008-05-16 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: No right to be there - 2008-05-16 SRI LANKA: Preventing making of complaints and claiming that there are no violations - 2008-05-16 SRI LANKA: SC holds prison officers to have committed torture on Tony Fernando - 2008-05-15 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: UK missed chance to charge Sri Lankan rights abuser - 2008-05-14 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA Threat (authorities attempt to prevent foreign media from covering elections in Eastern Province) - 2008-05-14 BANGLADESH: SC Lawyers boycott of Supreme Court to protest ruling obstructing granting of bail - 2008-05-13 CHINA: Extending concerns for the earthquake in China and urging China to do more for cyclone victims in Burma - 2008-05-13 PAKISTAN: May 12 carnage of Karachi, government should initiate enquiry and protect the lives of citizen - 2008-05-12 SRI LANKA: Bodies in the bag - 2008-05-12 BURMA: Junta has crossed the line from obstinateness to criminality - 2008-05-10 PAKISTAN: Government must form a tribunal to investigate cases of missing persons - 2008-05-10 BURMA: Colossal humanitarian crisis demands a far more resolute response from the global community and domestic government - 2008-05-09 CAMBODIA: The Cambodian government must act against all violence and ensure equal treatment of all political parties - 2008-05-09 [AHRC Open Letter] ASIA: ASEAN's survival too depends on its cyclone response - 2008-05-09 CAMBODIA: People's complaints need prompt responses from the government - 2008-05-09 [AHRC Forwarded Article] BURMA: Sign Petition, Let Aid into Myanmar! - 2008-05-09 INDIA: Civil society has a moral and legal duty to act for Myanmar - 2008-05-09 SRI LANKA: CAFFE move towards all inclusive membership is a welcome move - 2008-05-09 [AHRC Open Letter] THAILAND: Cyclone-devastated neighbour needs more help now - 2008-05-07 SRI LANKA: Cautious welcome to the introduction of a law on witness protection - 2008-05-07 PAKISTAN: The delay in reinstatement of the real chief justice has created a crisis of confidence in the judiciary - 2008-05-07 [AHRC Paper] PHILIPPINES: Christmas with a Dead Man's Watch - 2008-05-07 [ALRC Statement] INDIA: India's assistance to Myanmar must reflect its regional role - 2008-05-07 [AHRC Open Letter] PHILIPPINES: Burma's tragedy requires more than a team - 2008-05-07 SRI LANKA: A mirror of the culture of repression - 2008-05-06 PAKISTAN: Government issues false statements about missing persons - 2008-05-06 [ALRC Statement] PHILIPPINES: UN Human Rights Committee's decision on the Abadilla Five case - 2008-05-06 BURMA: No place for profiteering, referendum amid devastation - 2008-05-06 INDIA: The Manipur state government is recruiting state mercenaries - 2008-05-06 BURMA: International assistance needed now, especially from Asia - 2008-05-05 [AHRC Open Letter] SRI LANKA: Reply to Pachoris - 2008-05-05 [AHRC Open Letter] SRI LANKA: Justice and peace: a reply by the AHRC Chairperson to the Secretary General of the Peace Secretariat - 2008-05-05 CAMBODIA: Durable solution to land grabbing lies with the due process of law - 2008-05-02 SRI LANKA: A call by a group of JVPers for critical self evaluation of past violence has the potential of ushering in political change for the better - 2008-05-02 SRI LANKA: What should a genuine peace secretariat do? A reply to the Peace secretariat - 2008-05-02 ASIA: South Asia has lost a great crusader of peace - 2008-05-02 SRI LANKA: The Peace Chief and the Summoner's Tale - 2008-04-30 PAKISTAN: Government remains unmoved by the burning deaths of lawyers - 2008-04-30 PAKISTAN: Government has still not initiated enquiry in the case of a young Hindu labourer who was lynched for blasphemy - 2008-04-29 PHILIPPINES: Abadilla Five: Appeals court decision leaves many questions unanswered - 2008-04-28 SRI LANKA: 36 lawyers from Bangladesh urge the AG to appeal from the judgement of the High Court in the torture case of Gerald Perera - 2008-04-28 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] THAILAND: Request Thai government and the Office of Attorney General speed up the case of 28 April 2004 - 2008-04-28 SRI LANKA: Piliyandala bus bombing: attacks on civilians is a crime against humanity - 2008-04-28 [AHRC Open Letter] PHILIPPINES: State responsibility to relieve to hunger and poverty related deaths - 2008-04-25 BANGLADESH: The lawyers begin their protest movement against emergency laws and the Supreme Court judgment on the issue of bail - 2008-04-25 SRI LANKA: IIGEP episode, AG's department becoming prosecutor and defender at the same time - 2008-04-24 THAILAND: When will police and immigration officials also be detained over deaths of 54 migrants? - 2008-04-24 BANGLADESH: Supreme Court abdicates its powers relating to bail on emergency law matters - 2008-04-24 PAKISTAN: A Hindu worker is lynched for blasphemy as punishment for loving a Muslim girl - 2008-04-23 [ALRC Statement] INDIA: The National Human Rights Commission must prove its impartiality - 2008-04-23 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] INDONESIA: Measuring Indonesia's Good Faith in Human Rights - 2008-04-21 CAMBODIA: The Cambodian government must stamp out bribery in fire fighting - 2008-04-21 SRI LANKA: Criminalize refusal to record complaints of victims of crimes and human rights abuse - 2008-04-18 BURMA: Persistent threats to basic health rights of detainees - 2008-04-18 SRI LANKA: A nation without a political will - 2008-04-18 SRI LANKA: Evolution of the falsifier's role of the Attorney General's Department - 2008-04-17 ASIA: Mr. Muneer A. Malik awarded 2008 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights - 2008-04-17 SRI LANKA: IIGEP departs - a Requiem for Justice and Human Rights - 2008-04-16 [AHRC Open Letter] SRI LANKA: Case No. HC326/03 …. denial of right to an adequate remedy under Article 2 (3) of the ICCPR - 2008-04-14 PHILIPPINES: Criminal acts by the police must not be part of their work - 2008-04-14 PAKISTAN: Immediate actions required to prevent a possible civil war in Pakistan - 2008-04-13 THAILAND: Authorities must treat truck victims with dignity and according to law, not their own idea of law - 2008-04-11 [ALRC Joint Statement] PAKISTAN: Human rights groups denounce burning to death of up to 7 lawyers in Karachi and call for immediate action - 2008-04-11 [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] SRI LANKA: The Law Society and Trust requests the AG to file appeal on Gerald’s torture judgement - 2008-04-10 PAKISTAN: Brutal attacks on lawyers and it is time for parliament to act - 2008-04-10 [AHRC Joint Statement] INDONESIA: Legal aid revised - a new approach to support victims - 2008-04-10 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] INDONESIA: Critical Assessments upon UPR review of Indonesia - 2008-04-10 [AHRC Open Letter] SRI LANKA: Academics in Sri Jayawardenapura fear foul play - 2008-04-09 SRI LANKA: New Year and the loss of meaning in personal tragedy - 2008-04-08 CAMBODIA: Cambodia must recognize the competence of international human rights bodies - 2008-04-08 [ALRC Statement] INDIA: Initiate good precedents in the Universal Periodic Review - 2008-04-08 BURMA: Referendum preceded by hit-and-run assaults - 2008-04-07 SRI LANKA: Attorney General is urged to appeal from the High Court judgement relating to the torture of Gerald Perera - 2008-04-07 [AHRC Forwarded Article] PHILIPPINES: Human Rights Now report on extrajudicial killings in the Philippines - 2008-04-07 SRI LANKA: A comment on the Negombo High Court judgment on Gerald Perera’s torture case: When two and two equals five - 2008-04-05 [AHRC Open Letter] SRI LANKA: Negombo High Court case No.HC326/2003 - 2008-04-03 PAKISTAN: Thirty nine persons recorded disappeared during the first quarter of 2008 - 2008-04-03 [AHRC Paper] INDIA: Village structures perpetuate caste system - 2008-04-02 SRI LANKA: Gerald Perera's torture case: Assassins of torture victims are rewarded by court - 2008-04-02 SRI LANKA: IIGEP and UTHR J actions expose mockery of justice - 2008-04-01 [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] NEPAL: Letter to Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala - 2008-04-01 PAKISTAN: University of Karachi must lodge complaint against assault on a professor by Pakistan Rangers - 2008-04-01 PAKISTAN: Target killings are aimed to subvert people’s mandate - 2008-03-29 PHILIPPINES: Justifying murder of criminals endorses murder itself - 2008-03-28 SRI LANKA: Ignoring directives of the Supreme Court - 2008-03-28 [ALRC Statement] INDIA: Farcical steps to improve policing in India must end - 2008-03-28 INDIA: The country cannot afford judicial extravaganza - 2008-03-26 BURMA: Closed courts and more mocking of justice - 2008-03-25 PAKISTAN: Government of President Musharraf must immediately provide list of all disappeared persons - 2008-03-23 PAKISTAN: Historic resolution to restore the Constitution and all ousted judges is now before the National Assembly - 2008-03-21 PHILIPPINES: Civilian complaint mechanism against the police deliberately undermined by the state - 2008-03-20 INDONESIA: Attack on religion is an attack on democracy - 2008-03-19 PAKISTAN: A young woman abducted and gang raped by guards of the Mohammad Ali Jinnah mausoleum - 2008-03-19 [AHRC Paper] SRI LANKA: Caste of mind and the social organisation of Sri Lanka since the 9th century AD - 2008-03-18 PHILIPPINES: Restoring law and order in a lawless environment - 2008-03-18 PAKISTAN: The creativity of the parliament and the people needs to be sustained in the face of new challenges - 2008-03-18 SRI LANKA: Trade union action to support media freedom - 2008-03-18 CHINA: AHRC expresses concern for Tibet - 2008-03-17 [ALRC Joint Statement] PHILIPPINES: Attacks on Human Rights Defenders denounced - 2008-03-17 BANGLADESH: The government should investigate allegations of rights abuses mentioned in the US human rights report and establish a tradition of accountability instead of denial - 2008-03-17 BANGLADESH: Dysfunctional criminal justice system needs urgent reforms - 2008-03-15 PHILIPPINES: Funeral staff cannot be a substitute for forensic officers - 2008-03-14 [AHRC Paper] SRI LANKA: Caste of mind and the 'silly season' - 2008-03-14 [ALRC Joint Statement] ASIA: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal’s human rights situations denounced - 2008-03-14 [ALRC Statement] INDIA: Promise to prevent starvation and malnutrition is an empty rhetoric - 2008-03-13 [ALRC Joint Statement] ASIA: The ongoing deep divide between discourse and implementation - 2008-03-13 [ALRC Statement] BURMA: UN urged to go beyond business as usual concerning Burma - 2008-03-13 [ALRC Joint Statement] SRI LANKA: Interactive dialogue with the UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues - 2008-03-13 SRI LANKA: Smokescreen arguments defend bandit democracy - 2008-03-12 INDONESIA: A choice between city beautification and people - 2008-03-12 [ALRC Joint Statement] ASIA: Protection for human rights defenders lacking across the region - 2008-03-12 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Number of journalists arrested; one journalist released after questioning - 2008-03-11 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: 2008 The President and the People - 2008-03-11 PHILIPPINES: Killing of activist who survived previous attempts illustrates non-existent protection mechanism - 2008-03-11 CAMBODIA: Prosecutor's contempt for human rights calls for action against him - 2008-03-10 [ALRC Joint Statement] ASIA: Regional mechanisms and lack of progress in the adoption of frameworks - 2008-03-10 PAKISTAN: Lessons to be learned on post conflict justice arising from the decision to restore the judiciary - 2008-03-10 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: The Presidential Commission's Public Inquiry Process so far falls Short of International Norms and Standards - 2008-03-07 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: 'Disappearances' by Security Forces a National Crisis - International Human Rights Monitoring Mission Urgently Needed - 2008-03-07 [AHRC Open Letter] SOUTH KOREA: The case of the three deported migrant workers is cause for serious concern - 2008-03-07 SRI LANKA: IIGEP's quitting is no surprise, but what next? - 2008-03-07 PAKISTAN: Women are the main victims of the “war on terror” - 2008-03-07 BANGLADESH: Limitations of the participation to 50 persons only violates basic norms of democracy - 2008-03-06 PAKISTAN: As a member of the UN human rights council Pakistan should provide protection for minority sects - 2008-03-04 INDONESIA: A big leap forward - 2008-03-04 PAKISTAN: Lawyer's movement is the 'vanguard of democracy' - 2008-03-03 BANGLADESH: Torture by Rapid Action Battalion provokes protests - 2008-03-03 SRI LANKA: Crisis and militarization in Sri Lanka - 2008-02-29 [AHRC Forwarded Article] SRI LANKA: Urgent Position Paper - Transfer of the Director General of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption - 2008-02-29 BANGLADESH: Empty rhetoric will not improve Bangladeshi police - 2008-02-29 INDIA: Study on tuberculosis infection in Lohta village of Varanasi will begin on 1 March - 2008-02-29 PAKISTAN: Hand over power to the parliament immediately - 2008-02-28 CAMBODIA: The Cambodian government should address problems rather than attacking people or organisations which have identified them - 2008-02-27 PAKISTAN: The restorative justice in Pakistan demands the reinstatement of all the ousted judges - 2008-02-27 SRI LANKA: A court attacks human rights defenders' right to engage in peaceful protest - 2008-02-26 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Just behaviour and justice in religious conflicts - some concerns - 2008-02-25 [ALRC Statement] BURMA: Political psychosis, legal dementia and systemic abuses of human rights - 2008-02-22 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] PAKISTAN: Unlawful emergency measures in Pakistan - 2008-02-22 [ALRC Joint Statement] PAKISTAN: Blatant subversion of the judiciary by the military regime - 2008-02-22 [ALRC Statement] THAILAND: Continued threats to rule of law & human rights under elected government - 2008-02-22 [ALRC Statement] THAILAND: Law against torture needed to comply with Convention - 2008-02-22 [ALRC Joint Statement] SOUTH ASIA: Caste-based discrimination and analogous forms of inherited social exclusion: Discrimination based on work and descent - 2008-02-22 [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] THAILAND: Korean foundation expresses concern for security of Thai witnesses - 2008-02-22 THAILAND: Superior officer of border police responsible whether he likes it or not - 2008-02-21 SRI LANKA: A fatal blow to Sri Lanka's Bribery Commission - 2008-02-21 [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] SOUTH KOREA: The National Human Rights Commission of Korea Retains Independence - 2008-02-21 [ALRC Statement] BANGLADESH: The prolonged State of Emergency is resulting in widespread violations of human rights - 2008-02-21 [ALRC Statement] INDIA: Starvation deaths ongoing due to administrative neglect - 2008-02-21 [ALRC Statement] INDONESIA: Religious intolerance and discrimination an ongoing concern - 2008-02-21 [ALRC Statement] INDONESIA: Failure to pass appropriate legislation concerning torture, as required by the Convention Against Torture - 2008-02-21 [ALRC Statement] BURMA: Utter lawlessness in the aftermath of September 2007 - 2008-02-21 PAKISTAN: Repression of Aitzaz Ahsan needs to be immediately stopped - 2008-02-21 [AHRC Open Letter] THAILAND: Police must under no circumstances be given responsibility for protecting witnesses from other police - 2008-02-20 SRI LANKA: Lessons to be learned from Pakistan's secular forces - 2008-02-19 PAKISTAN: Election results vindicate chief justice - 2008-02-19 PAKISTAN: The need to monitor the post election situation and the dangers to dissidents - 2008-02-18 PAKISTAN: Can a rigged general election do any good to Pakistan? - 2008-02-16 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] PAKISTAN: Attorney General Aware of ‘Massive’ Election-Rigging Plans - 2008-02-15 THAILAND: Without criminal justice history too is lost - 2008-02-15 [AHRC Open Letter] BURMA/MYANMAR: Special humanitarian request to allow for urgent medical treatment to detainee who is going blind - 2008-02-12 PHILIPPINES: Eleven years, five prosecutors and not a case filed in court - 2008-02-12 SRI LANKA: Widespread thieving and fooling around with the Constitutional Council - 2008-02-11 PAKISTAN: Chief Justice and his family have now spent 100 days in detention - 2008-02-11 [AHRC Open Letter] THAILAND: Urgent need for law against torture - 2008-02-11 PHILIPPINES: KILLINGS – Expunging institution of justice, not criminals - 2008-02-05 SRI LANKA: New potentials for democracy in Sri Lanka - 2008-02-05 PAKISTAN: Released lawyers are re-arrested - 2008-02-05 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] NEPAL: Government must consult public before establishing two commissions for transitional justice - 2008-02-04 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] CHINA: Hu Jia formally charged for "inciting subversion" - 2008-02-04 THAILAND: Not rogue cops but a rogue system - 2008-01-31 [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] PAKISTAN: An open letter by Mr. Iftikhar Mohammad Choudhry, the Chief Justice of Pakistan - 2008-01-31 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Irresponsible comments by ministers endanger journalists - 2008-01-30 PAKISTAN: Under no circumstances should the elections due to February 18 be postponed - 2008-01-30 [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] SOUTH KOREA: Request protection for the NHRC-Korea - 2008-01-29 PHILIPPINES: Excessive court delay is not an acceptable judicial practice - 2008-01-29 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: High government official advocates censorship, return of criminal defamation laws - 2008-01-29 INDONESIA: Let the death of Soeharto be the moment of truth - 2008-01-29 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] MIDDLE EAST: Arab Charter on Human Rights enters into force - 2008-01-28 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Opportunity to Revive the Constitutional Council and Ensure Good Governance - 2008-01-28 CAMBODIA: Blockade and economic strangulation used in forcible evictions amount to deprivation of the right to food and to cruel and inhuman punishment - 2008-01-28 PAKISTAN: President Musharraf engages in a hate speech against journalists - 2008-01-28 INDONESIA: Can the death of Munir enlighten the Indonesian prosecution? - 2008-01-28 SRI LANKA: Confusion about the meaning of independence - 2008-01-25 PHILIPPINES: KILLINGS - "Legitimate encounter" is not a license to kill - 2008-01-24 [ALRC Joint Statement] PAKISTAN: Canadian, Dutch and Hong Kong lawyers conclude that Emergency Measures are illegitimate and call on Pakistan to restore the law and redress violations - 2008-01-23 ASIA: Two leading Pakistani lawyers to receive 3rd Asian Human Rights Defender Award - 2008-01-23 [AHRC Joint Statement] CAMBODIA: Release scapegoats for labor leader's murder - 2008-01-22 [AHRC Open Letter] SOUTH KOREA: Protecting the Independence of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea - 2008-01-21 PAKISTAN: Independent judges treated as a threat to national security of the country - 2008-01-21 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Abrogation of Ceasefire Agreement will Escalate Spiral of Violence - 2008-01-19 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] KOREA: Letter from High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding the independence of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea - 2008-01-18 WORLD/SOUTH KOREA: Independence of National Human Rights Commission of Korea is threatened - 2008-01-18 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SOUTH KOREA: The National Human Rights Commission of Korea is very concerned by the draft reorganisation of the government's institutions - 2008-01-18 SRI LANKA: The HR High Commissioner's duty to protect and promote human rights across the globe - 2008-01-18 PHILIPPINES: Prisoners jailed for a decade; nine justices fail to complete review of sentence - 2008-01-18 CAMBODIA: A bang on the head of the lawmakers should be a call for justice for victims of land grabbing - 2008-01-16 PHILIPPINES: KILLINGS - Two more killings: a priest and a judge - a symptom of lawlessness - 2008-01-16 SRI LANKA: Public relations, corruption agenda and new quarrels about the 17th Amendment to the Constitution - 2008-01-14 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] CHINA: Hu Jia's lawyer put under house arrest, foreign journalists prevented from visiting wife and daughter - 2008-01-14 PAKISTAN: Boycott of courts by lawyers enters 75th day and the government's attacks on judges intensify - 2008-01-14 PHILIPPINES: KILLINGS – Why can't security forces act without being asked? - 2008-01-14 PHILIPPINES: KILLINGS – Claims of police efficiency at odds with reality - 2008-01-11 PAKISTAN: Targeting of lawyers and cover up - 2008-01-11 SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka is abandoning the rules against murder - 2008-01-11 [AHRC Paper] PAKISTAN: The exclusive interview with Munir Malik to the Asian Human Rights Commission - 2008-01-11 PHILIPPINES: Killings leave deeply entrenched fear and distrust - 2008-01-09 PAKISTAN: Crack down on civil society by Musharraf government - 2008-01-09 WORLD: The guillotine is no solution to despair (Burma) - part one - 2008-01-07 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] SRI LANKA: Abrogation of Ceasefire Agreement will escalate spiral of violence & War against Terrorism is leading to More Terror - 2008-01-04 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] PAKISTAN: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists terms 2007 as the bad year for journalists - 2008-01-04 BANGLADESH: End misuse of authority upon the police and by the police - 2008-01-04 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] NEPAL: Condemnations over the lackluster police investigations vis-a-vis the murder case of Maina Sunuwar - 2008-01-04 PHILIPPINES: Recurrence of threats on church leaders explains fallacy of improved protection mechanism and human rights conditions - 2008-01-04 [AHRC Forwarded Statement] CHINA : Outrage at human rights activist Hu Jia's arrest in Beijing - 2008-01-03 SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka's further plunge into lawlessness - 2008-01-03 SRI LANKA: Update on Online Petition: Assassinations, hooliganism, paramilitary activism, bomb blasts and a further plunge into lawlessness - 2008-01-02 PAKISTAN: Daughters of Asma Jehangir assaulted and threatened by gunmen of the ruling party - 2008-01-02
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