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ASIA: Human Rights Mechanisms need practical actions on domestic institutional developments for administration of justice
ASIA: Actual protection of indigenous people within the framework of SDG Goal 16
BANGLADESH: Claim of economic growth without protection of human rights is a fallacy
MYANMAR/BANGLADESH: Rights, dignity, and future of genocide survivors at stake
BANGLADESH: Free expression and free assembly cost high price
BANGLADESH: Judiciary abdicates independence
INDIA: Government must end violation of bodily integrity and health of women
INDIA: Knee-jerk reactions to deal with violence against women will not help
INDIA: Human trafficking and threats to anti-trafficking activists a grave concern
INDIA: Human rights of migrants under threat
INDONESIA: Extreme poverty in Asmat regency has caused measles and malnutrition
INDIA: Right to freedom of opinion and expression deteriorating
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ASIA: Protection of rights of the minorities requires capable justice institutions
ASIA: Protection of children from violence and armed conflicts require sincere and comprehensive actions by states
ASIA: Failure to uphold truth and justice and prevent genocide would endanger the existence of human beings in future
ASIA: States encroach into personal privacy for so called security without securing the citizens' rights
ASIA: Protection of right to food is out of agenda as environmental rights are undermined for corruption-friendly policies
MYANMAR: Victims of crime against humanity deserve justice
ALRC/AHRC Alternative Reports
This section contains alternative (shadow) reports submitted by the Asian Human Rights Commission and/or Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC).
AHRC and ALRC Alternative Reports to the Human Rights Committee (HRC)
ALRC Alternative Report on Thailand to the HRC in 2005
ALRC Alternative Report on Sri Lanka to the HRC in 2003
AHRC and ALRC Alternative Reports to the Committee on Elimination on Racial Discrimination (CERD)
Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination India
ALRC Alternative Report on Nepal to the CERD in 2003
AHRC and ALRC Alternative Reports to the Committee Against Torture (CAT)
ALRC Supplementary Document concerning Torture in Nepal in 2005
ALRC Alternative Report on the Philippines to the CAT in 2009
ALRC Alternative Report on Sri Lanka to the CAT in 2005
ALRC Alternative Report on Indonesia to the CAT in 2005
ALRC Alternative Report on Cambodia to the CAT in 2003
BANGLADESH: Arbitrary Detention used as a complementary tool for the unelected government and a coercive law-enforcement system
BANGLADESH: Victims of Enforced Disappearances Denied Access to Justice
BANGLADESH: Access to justice amidst COVID-19 for pro-opposition litigants are dealt with draconian laws and discrimination
Burma/ Myanmar
MYANMAR: Protect rights, ensure dignified repatriation and justice of the Rohingyas
CAMBODIA: The roots of Cambodia's persistent rights violations: Impunity of the powerful
CAMBODIA: LRWC and ALRC denounce attacks against HRDs and problems with judicial independence
CAMBODIA: Comments on the Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review of Cambodia
INDIA: Country must bring its missing children back
INDIA: Government must officially recognize manual scavengers in order to end the practice of scavenging
INDONESIA: Twenty two years of unresolved enforced disappearances while the offender enjoys impunity
INDONESIA: Protection of peaceful assembly and association needs serious evaluation
INDONESIA: New Penal Code Bill must protect freedom of religion and belief
Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong SAR
Right of Abode in Hong Kong SAR
Harassment of sex workers in Hong Kong SAR
NEPAL: Government should amend Transitional Justice Act in line with Supreme Court and international standards
NEPAL: Deeply engrained racial discrimination continues
NEPAL: Repeated tenure extensions of transitional justice bodies without much progress, has been frightening victims and national and international communities
PAKISTAN: Rising violence against children
PAKISTAN: Rights defenders remain at high risk
PAKISTAN: Government facilitates curbing freedom of religion
PHILIPPINES: Acceleration of extra-judicial killings of jurists in the Philippines
PHILIPPINES: Extrajudicial killing of jurists as part of a pattern of widespread and systematic violations of human rights
PHILIPPINES: Government uses law and policy to violate rights to peaceful assembly and association
SOUTH KOREA: Eugene Soh, a great lover of genuine democracy passes away. 진정 민주주의를 사랑했던 서유진 선생 세상을 떠나다
NEPAL / REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Blind amnesty and systematic segregation
Republic of Korea: State's systematic segregation policy and law results in 513 deaths in a 'concentration camp' ("Auschwitz" in South Korea)
SRI LANKA: AHRC's Letter to Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith on Sri Lanka Easter Sunday Attacks on Churches and Hotels
SRI LANKA: UNHRC view asking the Sri Lankan government to pay compensation to the victim of sexual abuse and rape.
SRI LANKA/WORLD: Josefina Bergsten's documentary "The Activist"
THAILAND: Unforgotten in Thailand – Ensure truth, justice, and reparations for victims of enforced disappearance
THAILAND: End Arbitrary Arrest and Arbitrary Detention against pro-democracy activists
THAILAND: Unfair Trial in the Military Courts
TORTURE: AN ENTRENCHED PART OF CRUEL, INHUMAN & DEGRADING LEGAL SYSTEMS
Tragicomedy of Constitutional Autochthony
Undermining of the Legal and Political Systems
Deterioration of the Legal Intellect in Sri Lanka – A Miraculous Cure is Possible
Ethics in Action ( 2007- 2014)
Torture Magazine
Just Asia
Human Rights Correspondence School
BANGLADESH: Torturous law-enforcement system with impunity and rewards to perpetrators impede protection of rights
WORLD: Competent judicial professionals needed to administer justice to victims of international crimes
37th Session - March 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Asia, Commission on Human Rights, Oral Statements March 15, 2018 Admin
An Oral Statement to the 37th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC)
Mr. President.
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is concerned about the process of resolving the grives of the victims in Asian countries.
In Indonesia, President Joko Widodo has yet shown his seriousness in resolving past human rights abuses, This is contrary to the Nawa Cita, President Widodo's vision and mission, which clearly states that he will ensure prosecution of past human rights abuses cases, and it also has a breakdown into a National Medium-Term Development Plan 2014-2019. Since 2003, seven cases of past human rights abuses submitted by the National Commission on Human Rights to the Attorney General (AG) for further investigation, as regulated by Law No 26 of 2000 on Human Rights Court, are sitting in the AG's office with no further investigation undertaken. On the contrary, President Widodo has promoted and appointed several retired army generals allegedly involved in past human rights abuses as ministry cabinet members. Another alarming matter is the effort of former dictator Suharto's political party, Golkar Party, to promote Suharto as a national hero. This can only endanger the future of human rights and democracy in Indonesia.
Spending two years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP) in Nepal has promulgated to investigate conflict-era cases. Their two-year mandate was extended on 9 February 2017 for one year. With this one-year extension, Commission members and conflict victims will continue to face confusion and uncertainty. The TRC has received 58,052 complaints related to human rights violations committed by the State and the Maoist rebels during the conflict period. The CIEDP has received 2,888 complaints. However, the Commission has not been able to speed up its work due to delay by the government in enacting and promulgating the required legislations. This has deferred justice for conflict survivors, whereas the Commissions have not been able to carry out their work effectively.
In Indian Kashmir numerous cases of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions have been committed for decades without addressing the grieves. In Sri Lanka the Missing persons Commission has just been named after long delay. Our active attentions are required to see the progress in the coming days.
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