United Nations Human Rights Council – 36th Regular Session An Oral Statement to the 36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre
Category: 36th Session – September 2017
ASIA: Rohingya must be provided protection from violence; their rights respected, and allowed to live in peace
United Nations Human Rights Council – 36th Regular Session An Oral Statement to the 36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre
ASIA: Special Procedures should concentrate to justice institutional functionality for protection of people from human rights violations
United Nations Human Rights Council – 36th Regular Session An Oral Statement to the 36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre
ASIA: Restrictive sanctions must not stand in way of justice institution development
United Nations Human Rights Council – 36th Regular Session An Oral Statement to the 36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre
ASIA: Functioning justice institutions to be built to form the first line of defence against arbitrary detention
United Nations Human Rights Council – 36th Regular Session An Oral Statement to the 36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre
ASIA: High Commissioner’s Office should initiate process of rebuilding justice institutions
United Nations Human Rights Council – 36th Regular Session An Oral Statemen to the 36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre
ASIA: UN must prioritise helping Asian member states to build justice institutions to end enforced disappearances
An Oral Statement to the 36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre
INDONESIA: No justice for victims of enforced disappearances
A written submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre More than two years since President Widodo was inaugurated in October 2014, the Indonesian government has shown little effort to settle cases of enforced disappearances which occurred under the Suharto dictatorship and under successive governments. Until now, the President and the Parliament have not yet shown their willingness to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, despite signing it nearly seven years earlier.
BANGLADESH: Unbridled state power and a collapsed justice framework behind enforced disappearances
A Written Submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to update the United Nations Human Rights Council about the situation of Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances in Bangladesh. Enforced disappearances are increasing alarmingly in Bangladesh since Mrs. Sheikh Hasina has become the Prime Minister in January 2009. The victims’ families and the eye-witnesses have consistently accused the law-enforcement agencies including the national police and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) for being responsible for enforced disappearances.
MYANMAR: International intervention required to stop ethnic cleansing against Rohingya people
A Joint Written Submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre and Odhikar The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and ODHIKAR – Coalition for Human Rights wishes to bring the situation of the Rohingya community of Rakhine state of Myanmar to the notice of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The ALRC and Odhikar seek immediate, effective action from the international human rights community to protect the victims of Rohingya Muslim community from ethnic cleansing by the military and security forces of Myanmar.