Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre urges the Human Rights Committee to raise with the State party that it 1. Undertake a thorough review of implementation of article […]
Month: April 2005
Introduction: Rule of law versus rule of lords in Thailand
Editorial board, article 2 This is the second special report released by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) in article 2 on torture, extrajudicial killings and uneven application of law […]
Institutionalised torture, extrajudicial killings & uneven application of law in Thailand
Asian Legal Resource Centre Preamble 1. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is a regional non-governmental organisation holding General Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council, having its registered office […]
New law needed to implement the UN Convention against Torture in Indonesia
Taufik Basari, Attorney, Legal Aid Institute of Jakarta, Indonesia The United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment obliges state parties to “take the […]
Appendix VI: To uphold the Constitution of Thailand, axe criminal libel
Asian Human Rights Commission Note: This article was released as a statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AS-38-2005) on 8 April 2005. ————————————- In an announcement this week, Prime […]
Appendix V: Anticipating Thailand’s missing-persons centre
Asian Human Rights Commission Note: This article was released as a statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AS-32-2005) on 23 March 2005. ————————————- The announcement last week by Thailand’s […]
Appendix IV: ALRC addresses UN on disappearances and torture in Thailand
Note: The Asian Legal Resource Centre made these two oral statements to the UN Commission on Human Rights 61st session in Geneva during April 2005, under item 17(a) on human […]
Appendix III: Letters by the ALRC & AHRC concerning institutionalised torture, extrajudicial killings & uneven application of law in Thailand
Letter by the ALRC to the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture regarding gross acts of torture by the Royal Thai Police 26 July 2004 Prof Theo van Boven […]
Appendix II: Partial list of persons publicly reported killed in Thailand during the 2003 ‘war on drugs’
# Name Date Details 1. Mr Arhah Mabukaree Wahah (Mayabay) 29 January Shot 2. Ms Sudsakorn Sangsrimek 29 January Shot 3. Mr Laosan Saelor 31 January Shot by officer of […]
Appendix I: Collusion and influence behind the assassinations of human rights defenders in Thailand
Tyrell Haberkorn, PhD Candidate, Cornell University Note: This is the edited version of a document that was originally submitted to the 84th session of the UN Human Rights Committee by […]