Asian Human Rights Commission The People’s Tribunal on Food Scarcity and Militarization in Burma (Myanmar) was created as a public exercise in discovering and assessing evidence of human rights abuses […]
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People’s Tribunal to study food and justice in Asia
Asian Legal Resource Centre The relationship between a full stomach and a functioning judiciary is set to be examined by a new body, the Permanent People’s Tribunal on the Right […]
The making of a people’s tribunal
Chris Cusano, Deputy Director (Venture), Ashoka Innovators for the Public In 1996, the Asian Human Rights Commission and Burma Issues, a human rights organization in Thailand, began working on a […]
Statements to the UN Commission on Human Rights regarding food insecurity in Burma
Statements to the UN Commission on Human Rights regarding food insecurity in Burma Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) submitted these statements on food security in […]
Reports of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Asian Legal Resource Centre In April 2000, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights appointed a Special Rapporteur to examine the right to food. In his first three reports (2001 […]
“I can’t even feed my children”: More voices of the hungry nation
Elizabeth Lee, Researcher, Asian Legal Resource Centre In 1999, the People’s Tribunal on Food Scarcity and Militarization in Burma published Voice of the Hungry Nation, a report that established the […]
Hunger still rampant in Burma
Asian Human Rights Commission Burma is a fertile country with abundant resources. In years gone by it was said that nobody ever starves in Burma. This has long ceased to […]
Will the International Criminal Court be fair and impartial?
Dr Lyal S Sunga, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong The Centre for Criminal Jurisprudence of the Peoples’ University (Renmin) in Beijing and the Asian Legal Resource […]
The International Criminal Court and its effect on Asia
Basil Fernando, Executive Director, Asian Legal Resource Centre Equality before international law”, is a less commonly heard expression than simply “equality before the law”, meaning equality within local jurisdictions. In […]
‘Jan sunvai’ for Dalit rights: A meaningful exercise
Justice H Suresh, Bombay High Court (retired) Atrocities against Dalits [so-called ‘untouchables’] are on the increase. Recently, five Dalits in Haryana were lynched over the alleged killing of a cow, […]