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ASIA: Enforced Disappearances Continue With Zero Accountability and Blanket Impunity

September 21, 2022

An Oral Statement to the 51st Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council from the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) Mr. Vice President: The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) welcomes the comprehensive report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) and appreciates its prompt interventions in response to reprisals against the victims’ families and human rights defenders who keep working on the issue defying multiple forms of challenges. We are seriously concerned over the behaviours of the states where documenting the cases of enforced disappearances and cooperating with the United Nations Human Rights Mechanisms is considered to be ‘anti-state activities’. In May 2022, Bangladesh officially replied […]

INDONESIA: Withdraw police officers and stop the seizure of people’s living space in the Wadas village

February 16, 2022

An Open Letter from the Asian Legal Resource Centre to the Chief of National Police General of Police LISTYO SIGIT PRABOWOChief of National Police (KAPOLRI)Jl. Trunojoyo Number 3 Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan 12110INDONESIA Telephone: +62 21 384 8537, 726 0306Fax: +62 21 7220 669Electronic mail: info@polri.go.id Dear General: INDONESIA: Withdraw police officers and stop the seizure of people’s living space in the Wadas village The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) strongly condemns the raid by the police and the criminalization of a number of residents, that occurred in the Wadas village. We witnessed thousands of officers who came down and conducted sweeping operation in the Wadas Village as an intimidating and excessive […]

SOUTH KOREA: Eugene Soh, a great lover of genuine democracy passes away. 진정 민주주의를 사랑했던 서유진 선생 세상을 떠나다

May 19, 2019

Click here to Read the Korean Version On 16th May 2019, Eugene Soh, a man who dedicated his entire adult life working to defeat the military dictatorship in South Korea, passed away after a brief illness. Mahatma is a South Asian word meaning great soul. Eugene Soh was definitely a man who had a very great soul, a compassionate heart with a constant commitment to genuine democracy and for ordinary people. It was certainly a great privilege to have been associated with this unpretentious man whose mind was preoccupied with the great problems of our times. I first got to know Eugene Soh around 1995 during a Youth Meeting organized […]

BANGLADESH: Independent Investigative Mechanism Needed for Affording Justice to Victims of Enforced Disappearances

August 22, 2022

A Written Statement to the 51st Regular Session of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) reiterates the issue of Bangladesh’s unabated enforced disappearances with blanket impunity to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council’s 51st Regular Session. Halting enforced disappearances in Bangladesh has been an everlasting challenge under the incumbent government. Previously, the ALRC informed the UN Human Rights Council regarding the situation of enforced disappearances since Sheikh Hasina assumed to the office in January 2009.[1] Now, prior to the 51st Regular Session 619 people are documented to have been disappeared under the incumbent government.[2] It should be […]

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)

AHRC and ALRC Alternative Reports to the Committee on Elimination on Racial Discrimination (CERD)

AHRC and ALRC Alternative Reports to the Committee Against Torture (CAT)