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Search this section: Advanced Search	AHRC Statements 2008   [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 [AHRC Announcement] BURMA: AHRC now accepting donations on behalf of partners - 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) ¡V 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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