WORLD: The trial of a Khmer Rouge torturer --- In the latest issue of Torture Magazine
"The evacuations and arrests were just part of a larger Khmer Rouge project of mass social engineering which involved obliterating everything that smacked of capitalism, privatism, and class oppression," writes Alexander Laban Hinton, Founding...
INDONESIA: Government must earnestly address human rights violation in Papua
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned about six Pacific countries raising the subject of human rights violations in Papua in the General Debate of the Assembly's 71st Session, on 26 September 2016. The video can be accessed here.
Rwanda: Opposition Activist Missing
A Rwandan opposition activist has been missing for six months and is feared to have been forcibly disappeared, Human Rights Watch said on Sep 29. People close to the activist, Illuminée Iragena, have not seen her since March 26, 2016, and fear she may...
Bangladesh: Stop ‘Kneecapping’ Detainees
Security forces in Bangladesh are deliberately shooting members and supporters of opposition parties in the leg, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Sep 29. Victims explained that police shot them in custody and then falsely claimed that...
Egypt: Serious Abuses in Scorpion Prison
Authorities at a maximum security prison in Cairo that holds many political prisoners routinely abuse inmates in ways that may have contributed to some of their deaths.
Bangladesh: Stop ‘Kneecapping’ Detainees
Security forces in Bangladesh are deliberately shooting members and supporters of opposition parties in the leg, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Sep 28. Victims explained that police shot them in custody and then falsely claimed that...
Malawi: Mining Puts Residents at Risk
Malawi’s government has failed to protect the rights and livelihoods of people living in nascent mining communities, Human Rights Watch said today in a report released on eve of the International Right to Know Day. Families living near coal and...
US Election and Human Rights
The 2016 US presidential election has generated a great deal of debate on human rights issues—from torture to paid family leave, immigration to policing—on which Human Rights Watch has been working for years. In the lead-up to the vote, our experts...
Pressure on Pakistan government from UN to ratify all human rights treaties signed
On September 20, the Asian Legal Resource Centre, sister organisation to the Asian Human Rights Commission, held a side event during the 33rd Session of the Human Rights Council on the systematic killings of lawyers and human rights activists in...
Statement attributable to Hanaa Singer, UNICEF Representative in Syria, on attacks and deliberate water cuts in Aleppo
“Nearly 2 million people in Aleppo are once again with no running water through the public network.
