21 Most Recent Updates
  • ABOUT ALRC
    • FUNCTIONS
    • PROGRAMMES
    • PRINCIPLES
    • BACKGROUND
  • ALRC AT THE UN
    • Human Rights Council
      • Human Rights Council

        ASIA: Human Rights Mechanisms need practical actions on domestic institutional developments for administration of justice

        ASIA: Actual protection of indigenous people within the framework of SDG Goal 16

        BANGLADESH: Claim of economic growth without protection of human rights is a fallacy

        MYANMAR/BANGLADESH: Rights, dignity, and future of genocide survivors at stake

        BANGLADESH: Free expression and free assembly cost high price

        BANGLADESH: Judiciary abdicates independence

        INDIA: Government must end violation of bodily integrity and health of women

        INDIA: Knee-jerk reactions to deal with violence against women will not help

        INDIA: Human trafficking and threats to anti-trafficking activists a grave concern

        INDIA: Human rights of migrants under threat

        INDONESIA: Extreme poverty in Asmat regency has caused measles and malnutrition

        INDIA: Right to freedom of opinion and expression deteriorating

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    • Commission on Human Rights
      • Commission on Human Rights

        ASIA: Protection of rights of the minorities requires capable justice institutions

        March 15, 2018

        ASIA: Protection of children from violence and armed conflicts require sincere and comprehensive actions by states

        March 15, 2018

        ASIA: Failure to uphold truth and justice and prevent genocide would endanger the existence of human beings in future

        March 15, 2018

        ASIA: States encroach into personal privacy for so called security without securing the citizens’ rights

        March 15, 2018

        ASIA: Protection of right to food is out of agenda as environmental rights are undermined for corruption-friendly policies

        March 15, 2018

        MYANMAR: Victims of crime against humanity deserve justice

        March 15, 2018
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    • ALRC/AHRC Alternative Reports
      • This section contains alternative (shadow) reports submitted by the Asian Human Rights Commission and/or Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC).


          • AHRC and ALRC Alternative Reports to the Human Rights Committee (HRC)

        ALRC Alternative Report on Thailand to the HRC in 2005
        ALRC Alternative Report on Sri Lanka to the HRC in 2003

          • AHRC and ALRC Alternative Reports to the Committee on Elimination on Racial Discrimination (CERD)

        Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination India
        ALRC Alternative Report on Nepal to the CERD in 2003

          • AHRC and ALRC Alternative Reports to the Committee Against Torture (CAT)

        ALRC Supplementary Document concerning Torture in Nepal in 2005
        ALRC Alternative Report on the Philippines to the CAT in 2009
        ALRC Alternative Report on Sri Lanka to the CAT in 2005
        ALRC Alternative Report on Indonesia to the CAT in 2005
        ALRC Alternative Report on Cambodia to the CAT in 2003

  • Countries
    • Bangladesh
      • Bangladesh

        BANGLADESH: Torture being used to block access to justice

        February 24, 2021

        BANGLADESH: Arbitrary Detention used as a complementary tool for the unelected government and a coercive law-enforcement system

        September 11, 2020

        BANGLADESH: Victims of Enforced Disappearances Denied Access to Justice

        September 11, 2020
    • Burma / Myanmar
      • Burma/ Myanmar

        MYANMAR/BANGLADESH: Rights, dignity, and future of genocide survivors at stake

        September 19, 2019

        MYANMAR: Protect rights, ensure dignified repatriation and justice of the Rohingyas

        September 9, 2019

        MYANMAR: Victims of crime against humanity deserve justice

        March 15, 2018
    • Cambodia
      • Cambodia

        CAMBODIA: The roots of Cambodia’s persistent rights violations: Impunity of the powerful

        September 10, 2019

        CAMBODIA: LRWC and ALRC denounce attacks against HRDs and problems with judicial independence

        September 25, 2012

        CAMBODIA: Comments on the Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review of Cambodia

        March 17, 2010
    • India
      • India

        INDIA: Government must end violation of bodily integrity and health of women

        June 24, 2019

        INDIA: Country must bring its missing children back

        February 20, 2019

        INDIA: Government must officially recognize manual scavengers in order to end the practice of scavenging

        August 29, 2018
    • Indonesia
      • Indonesia

        INDONESIA: Pretrial detention under the Criminal Law Procedure needs serious reform, having caused torture and ill-treatment

        February 24, 2021

        INDONESIA: Twenty two years of unresolved enforced disappearances while the offender enjoys impunity

        September 11, 2020

        INDONESIA: Protection of peaceful assembly and association needs serious evaluation

        June 24, 2019
    • Hong Kong
      • Hong Kong

        Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong SAR

        March 4, 2002

        Right of Abode in Hong Kong SAR

        March 4, 2002

        Harassment of sex workers in Hong Kong SAR

        January 30, 2001
    • Nepal
      • Nepal

        NEPAL: Government should amend Transitional Justice Act in line with Supreme Court and international standards

        August 28, 2018

        NEPAL: Deeply engrained racial discrimination continues

        April 25, 2018

        NEPAL: Repeated tenure extensions of transitional justice bodies without much progress, has been frightening victims and national and international communities

        February 27, 2018
    • Pakistan
      • Pakistan

        PAKISTAN: Rising violence against children

        February 27, 2018

        PAKISTAN: Rights defenders remain at high risk

        February 27, 2018

        PAKISTAN: Government facilitates curbing freedom of religion

        February 26, 2018
    • Philippines
      • Philippines

        PHILIPPINES: Acceleration of extra-judicial killings of jurists in the Philippines

        June 30, 2020

        PHILIPPINES: Extrajudicial killing of jurists as part of a pattern of widespread and systematic violations of human rights

        September 12, 2019

        PHILIPPINES: Government uses law and policy to violate rights to peaceful assembly and association

        June 9, 2015
    • South Korea
      • South Korea

        SOUTH KOREA: Eugene Soh, a great lover of genuine democracy passes away. 진정 민주주의를 사랑했던 서유진 선생 세상을 떠나다

        May 19, 2019

        NEPAL / REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Blind amnesty and systematic segregation

        June 19, 2014

        Republic of Korea: State’s systematic segregation policy and law results in 513 deaths in a ‘concentration camp’ (“Auschwitz” in South Korea)

        June 6, 2014
    • Sri Lanka
      • Sri Lanka

        SRI LANKA: AHRC’s Letter to Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith on Sri Lanka Easter Sunday Attacks on Churches and Hotels

        April 26, 2019

        SRI LANKA: UNHRC view asking the Sri Lankan government to pay compensation to the victim of sexual abuse and rape.

        June 12, 2018

        SRI LANKA/WORLD: Josefina Bergsten’s documentary “The Activist”

        March 1, 2018
    • Thailand
      • Thailand

        THAILAND: Unforgotten in Thailand – Ensure truth, justice, and reparations for victims of enforced disappearance

        September 9, 2019

        THAILAND: End Arbitrary Arrest and Arbitrary Detention against pro-democracy activists

        September 2, 2016

        THAILAND: Unfair Trial in the Military Courts

        June 3, 2016
  • Universal Periodic Review
  • Books
    • Books

      TORTURE: AN ENTRENCHED PART OF CRUEL, INHUMAN & DEGRADING LEGAL SYSTEMS

      Tragicomedy of Constitutional Autochthony

      Undermining of the Legal and Political Systems

      Deterioration of the Legal Intellect in Sri Lanka – A Miraculous Cure is Possible

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TRENDING NOW

  • INDONESIA: Pretrial detention under the Criminal Law Procedure needs serious reform, having caused torture and ill-treatment
  • BANGLADESH: Torture being used to block access to justice
  • BANGLADESH: Arbitrary Detention used as a complementary tool for the unelected government and a coercive law-enforcement system
  • INDONESIA: Twenty two years of unresolved enforced disappearances while the offender enjoys impunity
  • BANGLADESH: Victims of Enforced Disappearances Denied Access to Justice
  • PHILIPPINES: Acceleration of extra-judicial killings of jurists in the Philippines
  • BANGLADESH: Access to justice amidst COVID-19 for pro-opposition litigants are dealt with draconian laws and discrimination
  • BANGLADESH: Torturous law-enforcement system with impunity and rewards to perpetrators impede protection of rights
  • WORLD: Competent judicial professionals needed to administer justice to victims of international crimes
  • ASIA: Human Rights Mechanisms need practical actions on domestic institutional developments for administration of justice

Category: 39th Session – September 2018

BANGLADESH: Ritualistic UPR mechanism fails to protect and promote human rights

39th Session - September 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Bangladesh, Oral Statements September 25, 2018September 25, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

An Oral Statement to the 39th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC)

BANGLADESH: Chilling Human Rights violations need Council’s immediate attention

39th Session - September 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Bangladesh, Oral Statements September 19, 2018September 19, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

An Oral Statement to the 39th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC)

ASIA: Special Procedures require innovative actions to protect and promote human rights

39th Session - September 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Asia, Oral Statements September 16, 2018September 16, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

An Oral Statement to the 39th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC)

ASIA: Failed Justice Institutions complicit to Arbitrary Detention and Enforced Disappearances

39th Session - September 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Asia, Oral Statements September 13, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

An Oral Statement to the 39th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC)

ASIA: High Commissioner for Human Rights should initiate effective programmes for unhindered access to justice and ending impunity

39th Session - September 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Asia, Oral Statements September 13, 2018September 13, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

An Oral Statement to the 39th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC)

INDIA: Government must officially recognize manual scavengers in order to end the practice of scavenging

39th Session - September 2018, India, Written Submissions August 29, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 39th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre

INDONESIA: Arbitrary arrest and detention in Papua must be ended; the Rule of Law must be amplified

39th Session - September 2018, Indonesia, Written Submissions August 29, 2018August 29, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 39th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre

BANGLADESH: Creation of country mandate needed to monitor human rights situation

39th Session - September 2018, Bangladesh, Written Submissions August 29, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 39th Regular Session of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre

INDIA: Minting a huge humanitarian crisis with national citizenship register in Assam

39th Session - September 2018, India, Written Submissions August 29, 2018August 29, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 39th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre

INDONESIA: The Government cannot avoid the ad hoc Human Rights Court to address past human rights abuses

39th Session - September 2018, Indonesia, Written Submissions August 28, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 39th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre

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