AHRC released the 22th Episode of its
In this week’s programme:
- Teenager in Pakistan who set herself on fire when the men who gang raped her were released after bribing the police.
- Manipuri hunger striker Irom Sharmila, who has spent 14 years protesting the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), is released and re-arrested in what is now an annual ritual; Manipuri human rights defender Babloo Loitongbam further discusses the AFSPA in relation to the upcoming elections in India.
- Basil Fernando talks about the arrests of human rights defenders in Sri Lanka, just as the UN Human Rights Council has proposed a new landmark resolution to investigate war crimes committed by both sides during the end of the war in Sri Lanka.
- Kerala lawyer R.K Asha describes her police torture ordeal from her hospital bed.
- A disturbing report from Thar district in Pakistan, where children are starving to death while the relief wheat meant for them remains unused and is rotting in storage.
- In Voices of Survivors: this week we hear from Biman Bose in Assam, India, who has fought a decades-long battle for justice after brutal torture costing him his livelihood.
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Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 
March 21, 2014 at 10:32
They are good on other countries. But isn’t AHRC run by China so for example if you search their site nothing on Cao Shunli and nothing in their round up on Chinese Human Rights Abuses. Is there no Indian Thai Malaysian Human Rights Round up that you can link to which might talk of Chinese abuses? But it’s definitely a good plan. Rather than just attack China encourage them to criticize the human rights abuses of neighbouring countries and if any of the neighbours feel able to do the same. That way everyone benefits.
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March 21, 2014 at 11:35
This is more for AHRC to answer. thanks Hans
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