Asian Human Rights Commission A group of journalists, law practitioners, intellectuals and human rights activists have come from various parts of Nepal to participate in the five-day (April 4?) Consultation […]
Sri Lanka
Bringing the Convention against Torture to India
Consultation on the Convention against Torture, Kerala, India There is an enormous amount of violence occurring throughout the world, including India, however, domestic violence, religious and communal violence and child […]
State-sponsored violence in Sri Lanka
Asian Legal Resource Centre & World Organisation Against Torture Footnote: This is the edited text of the first part of the alternative report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee […]
Explanatory statement of the Ad Hoc Commission on the Depayin Massacre
Ad Hoc Commission on the Depayin Massacre (Burma) In every society, whenever such a heinous crime that impacts on several thousand people occurs, the respective governments, in cooperation with […]
Attack on democracy party in Burma demands an uncompromising international response
Asian Human Rights Commission The military rulers of Burma have in this past week again shown that their pretensions to human rights and political change are utterly fraudulent. The Asian […]
Affidavits of eyewitnesses to the Depayin massacre
Affidavit of Wunna Maung I, Wunna Maung, hereby swear under oath that: 1. I am a citizen of Burma, holding National Identification Card No- 9/MCS- (N) 003840. I was born […]
Policing India in the new millenium, or old?
Meryam Dabhoiwala, Human Rights School desk, Asian Human Rights Commission There is a lot of talk these days about the Indian police force, and much literature attesting to the corruption […]
Genocide in Gujarat: Destruction without relief
Concerned Citizens Tribunal – Gujarat 2002 Destruction Extensive evidence recorded by the Tribunal points to the devastating loss of property by the Muslim community in the state. Relying on detailed […]
Broken-down prosecutors, thrown-out victims
Bijo Francis, Advocate, Kerala, India The acquittal of the accused in the ‘Best Bakery case’ arising out of the Gujarat massacre epitomises the decline of the Indian judicial system. Recently […]
A note on the law of contempt, with reference to the case of Michael Anthony Fernando
Justice H Suresh, Bombay High Court (retired), India The concept The source of the law of contempt is the Common Law concept of the English Courts and their decisions. Its […]