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 […]
Sri Lanka
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 […]
Nepal: Time to act
Asian Human Rights Commission & Asian Legal Resource Centre Nepal’s unparalleled human rights catastrophe is deepening. Since the release of the Asian Legal Resource Centre’s special report ‘The mathematics of […]
Need another tsunami to wash away India’s ugly caste system
V B Rawat, Social Development Foundation, Delhi, India When the tsunami hit Tamil Nadu, on India’s south-eastern coast, it exposed caste prejudice more clearly than ever. Political parties, non-governmental organisations […]
Lists of arrested political leaders and human rights defenders in Nepal since 1 February 2005
These incomplete lists of arrested political leaders and human rights defenders since the takeover of absolute power by King Gyanendra in Nepal since 1 February 2005 were released by the […]
Petition to urge His Majesty’s Government of Nepal and the opposing Maoist groups to STOP disappearances in Nepal
Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong Stop disappearances in Nepal NOW: http//nepal.disappearances.org Dear friends Ms. Kumari Damai and Kumari Nepali of Kailali District and Ms. Meera Adhikari from Nuwakot District, […]
Missing and maimed: Case studies of forced disappearances and torture committed by the Nepalese security forces
Advocacy Forum, Kathmandu, Nepal & Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong The following are a handful of the types of cases of forced disappearance and torture committed daily by the […]
Man-made tidal wave is the cause of Nepal’s destruction
Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong Land-locked Nepal escaped the destruction of the massive tidal wave that swept away the coastlines of its neighbours this December 2004. Unfortunately, the country […]