Category: 36th Session – September 2017

PAKISTAN: The world’s largest death row prisoners awaiting for their fate

36th Session - September 2017, ALRC AT THE UN, Human Rights Committee, Pakistan, Written Submissions August 28, 2017August 28, 2017 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) would like to draw the attention of the UN Human Rights Council to the state of death penalty in Pakistan. The right to life is the inalienable right of every human being. Pakistan’s Constitution, international norms and conventions dictate that no one shall be deprived of life and liberty. In Pakistan this right is only available to a select few. The normative laws may provide an extensive basis for the protection of the right to life. But the substantive laws, such as the Protection of Pakistan Act, 2014 and […]

BANGLADESH: Politics of undeserving governmental power and collapsed justice institution are key behind enforced disappearances

36th Session - September 2017, ALRC AT THE UN, Bangladesh, Written Submissions August 28, 2017 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 36th Regular Session of the United Nations’ 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 Sheikh Hasina has been Prime Minister in January 2009. The victims’ families and the eye-witnesses have consistently accused the law-enforcement agencies including the Police and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) for the incidents of enforced disappearances.

INDONESIA: Arbitrary detention occurs widely and repeatedly without serious consequences

36th Session - September 2017, ALRC AT THE UN, Indonesia, Written Submissions August 27, 2017 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to draw the attention of the UN Human Rights Council to the problem of arbitrary arrest and detention in Indonesia, which occurs widely and frequently. Despite Indonesia being a State party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the needed redesigning of the justice institutions, to reduce arbitrary arrest and detention, has yet to be done.