Category: Commission on Human Rights

BANGLADESH: Law on torture is useless in a broken justice mechanism

37th Session - March 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Bangladesh, Commission on Human Rights, Written Submissions February 26, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) has repeatedly raised the issues relating to Bangladesh’s torturous and coercive law-enforcement system coupled with a broken down justice mechanism in place.

NEPAL: Lack of robust investigation mechanisms result in continued practice of torture

37th Session - March 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Commission on Human Rights, Nepal, Written Submissions February 25, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations 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 (UNHRC) to the unabated practice of torture in Nepal. In the absence of scientific investigation technology and techniques, the Nepalese police have been routinely making use of torture in order to complete their investigations. While this has been ongoing, the police as an institution and the politicians as policymakers, have been turning blind and deaf to this menace.

INDIA: Mere legislation against custodial torture will not end the practice

37th Session - March 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Commission on Human Rights, India, Written Submissions February 25, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Government of India has once again started discussing about coming up with a national legislation to criminalise the practice of custodial torture and ill treatment. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) welcomes this move. However, the ALRC is concerned that despite the repeated assurances, nothing much has happened to table the new law in the parliament. In fact, the Union Government is not even engaged in open discussions with the civil society about the new law.

PAKISTAN: Impunity and disappearances rise hand in hand

37th Session - March 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Commission on Human Rights, Pakistan, Written Submissions February 25, 2018February 25, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) would like to draw the UN Human Rights Council’s attention to the practice of enforced disappearances, ongoing in Pakistan for the last many years. The ALRC is concerned about the increase in disappearance cases in Pakistan. The state has utterly and miserably failed to restrain law enforcement agencies, which are indulging in the practice with impunity.