Basil Fernando, Executive Director, Asian Human Rights Commission & Asian Legal Resource Centre, Hong Kong For decades various official commissions that have studied policing in Sri Lanka have reached the […]
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Foreword: The importance of protecting witnesses
Basil Fernando, Executive Director, Asian Legal Resource Centre, Hong Kong Without witness protection there can be no fight against impunity. Without witness protection, victims of human rights abuses who complain […]
A flawed approach to national implementation of human rights
Basil Fernando, Executive Director, Asian Human Rights Commission & Asian Legal Resource Centre, Hong Kong State parties to United Nations conventions are obliged to protect and promote human rights in […]
The tussle between the executive president & public authorities of Sri Lanka
Basil Fernando, Executive Director, Asian Human Rights Commission & Asian Legal Resource Centre, Hong Kong Under the Gaullist Constitution one of the major responsibilities of the French president is that […]
The Optional Protocol to the ICCPR as a means to address degenerating law & institutions in Sri Lanka
Basil Fernando, Executive Director, Asian Legal Resource Centre, Hong Kong In ancient times, when Sinhala kings and monks perceived that the local practice of Buddhism was degenerating they sought to […]
Tales of two Sri Lankan massacres: The relevance of Embilipitiya to Bindunuwewa
Basil Fernando, Executive Director, Asian Human Rights Commission & Asian Legal Resource Centre Hardly any one looks into the massacres, killings and other violence in Sri Lanka during recent decades […]
The rule of law and human rights
Basil Fernando, Executive Director, Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong Serious problems relating to the rule of law have together become a serious impediment to the realisation of human rights […]
What the absence of parliament means for the rule of law and society in Nepal
Basil Fernando, Executive Director, Asian Human Rights Commission This April 2004, democratic groups in Nepal have been engaged in daily demonstrations in the capital. They have been brutally attacked by […]
Some features of the new authoritarianism
Basil Fernando, Executive Director, Asian Human Rights Commission These days, it is common to find governments that use the trappings of democracy to conceal an authoritarian character. For example, regimes […]
Torturing and killing the innocent
Basil Fernando, Executive Director, Asian Legal Resource Centre What characterises victims of torture by the police in Sri Lanka? First, they are poor people. Secondly, they are innocent of whatever […]