Asep Rahmat Fajar, Director, Indonesian Legal Roundtable In the Indonesian organization of the state, which is regulated in the constitution, the Supreme Court and related bodies have functions of judicial […]
Sri Lanka
Indonesia 2008: Torture, killings continue despite 10 years of reforms
Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong In 2008, Indonesia continued on the path to reform, but continued to stumble over issues such as religious freedom and indigenous people’s rights. This […]
Public prosecution in India
Dr K N Chandrasekharan Pillai, Director, Indian Law Institute, New Delhi In organized societies, there is a public prosecution system to prosecute offenders who violate societal norms. The system in […]
India 2008: Expectation, promise and performance
Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong Evaluating the human rights record of a country like India, with its varied culture, population and diverse demography is a challenging task. A thorough […]
Establishing an independent national human rights institution in Cambodia
Dr Lao Mong Hay, Senior Researcher, Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong When the Cambodian warring factions and the concerned countries met in Paris, France, in 1991 to conclude a […]
Cambodia 2008: A turn for the worse?
Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong In July 2008, Cambodia held a parliamentary election, the third after the UN-organised one in 1993. Eleven political parties were competing for the 123 […]
Democratization and human rights in Bangladesh: An appraisal of the military- controlled Fakhruddin interregnum
Md. Shariful Islam, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh The latest military coup in Bangladesh, in the guise of a state of emergency under the constitution, […]
Bangladesh 2008: Insidious militarisation and illegal emergency
Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong Bangladesh has struggled with poverty, environmental disasters, deeply entrenched corruption and a range of grave human rights violations since its independence in 1971. The […]
Nargis: World’s worst response to a natural disaster
Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong In the weeks after Cyclone Nargis swept through lower Burma on 2 and 3 May 2008, bringing in its wake a tidal wave that […]
Ten case studies in illegal arrest and imprisonment
during the military-led crackdown on protestors. They searched her and although she only had her ID cards, a small amount of money and some personal items, they tied her hands […]