Basil Fernando, Director, Policy and Programme Development, Asian Human Rights Commission During the last 15 years the Asian Human Rights Commission and its sister organisation the Asian Legal Resource Centre […]
Introduction : Volume 14 Number 02

Basil Fernando, Director, Policy and Programme Development, Asian Human Rights Commission During the last 15 years the Asian Human Rights Commission and its sister organisation the Asian Legal Resource Centre […]
Noreen, intern, Asian Human Rights Commission; Danilo Reyes, editor, article 2 Before the riot police’s crackdown on the student protesters marching some 500 kilometers from Mandalay to Yangon on 20 […]
Danilo Reyes, article2editor This article will look into the practice of torture in Burma by examining individual torture cases recorded from early 2012 to the present, the period described by […]
Aung Min Khine, a 16-year-old student protestor, Burma Aung Min Khine, a 16-year-old student protestor, talks about how he was arrested, detained and severely beaten by over a dozen riot […]
Thein Than Oo, practicing lawyer, Burma In this interview Thein Than Oo, a practicing lawyer in Burma, talks about his arrest and detention on two occasions, and his disbarment from […]
Myint Thwin, practicing lawyer and former political prisoner, Burma In this interview, Myint Thwin, a practicing lawyer and former political prisoner, talks about his personal experience of being arrested, detained […]
Dr.Aung Moe Nyo, Member of Parliament (Pyithu Hluttaw), National League for Democracy, Burma In this interview, Dr. Aung Moe Nyo, of the National League for Democracy, and Member of Parliament […]
Debby Chan Sze Wan, PhD candidate at the Department of Politics and Public Administration, the University of Hong Kong. The great Chinese philosopher Confucius said, “The superior man does not, […]
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), Burma Earlier this year the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights stated that whilst Burma had promised to end the era of […]
Thein Than Oo, Myanmar Lawyers’ Network “Myanmar is a country in which the rule of law is lexically present but semantically absent.” (Nick Cheesman- Opposing the Rule of Law). The […]