FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 23, 2013 ALRC-CWS-23-07-2013 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twenty-third session, Agenda Item 4, General Debate A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status NEPAL: Serious concerns for the security of human rights defenders remain 1. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to highlight the continuing need for closer monitoring by the Human Rights Council and the international community of the renewed threats and attacks that human rights defenders working in Nepal have had to face since the beginning of the year. Worries about potential reprisals from the former belligerents have arisen following progress in […]
Category: Human Rights Council
MYANMAR: Official report on Rakhine State conflict gravely flawed
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 23, 2013 ALRC-CWS-23-06-2013 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twenty-third session, Agenda Item 4, General Debate A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status MYANMAR: Official report on Rakhine State conflict gravely flawed 1. Following the communal violence that wracked the western parts of Myanmar near the border of Bangladesh in 2012, the country’s president established a commission of inquiry comprising of retired public servants, religious figures, politicians, academics and members of civil society. The commission handed down its findings on 22 April 2013. Despite high expectations, the 119-page report is gravely flawed. Although it contains […]
THAILAND: The regularization of the crisis of freedom of expression
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 22, 2013 ALRC-CWS-23-05-2013 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twenty-third session, Agenda Item 3, General Debate A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status THAILAND: The regularization of the crisis of freedom of expression 1. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to bring the regularization of the crisis of freedom of expression in Thailand to the attention of the Human Rights Council. This statement is the sixth on this topic that the ALRC has submitted to the Council since May 2011. During the seventeenth session of the Council in May 2011, the ALRC highlighted the […]
MYANMAR: Police who attacked peaceful protestors must be prosecuted
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 22, 2013 ALRC-CWS-23-04-2013 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twenty-third session, Agenda Item 3, General Debate A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status MYANMAR: Police who attacked peaceful protestors must be prosecuted 1. The struggle of farmers and their allies in the Letpadaung Hills of central Myanmar against the expansion of a copper mining operation under a military-owned holding company and a partner company from China obtained international attention when in the early morning hours of 29 November 2012 paramilitary police launched a night time attack on encamped protestors. The attack received international media coverage […]
INDONESIA: Justice denied due to the absence of independent mechanism to examine summary execution allegations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 21, 2013 ALRC-CWS-23-03-2013 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twenty-third session, Agenda Item 3, General Debate A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status INDONESIA: Justice denied due to the absence of independent mechanism to examine summary execution allegations 1. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) wishes to bring the attention of the Human Rights Council (HRC) to the issue of summary executions perpetrated by police and military officers in Indonesia. The ALRC and KontraS are concerned not only with the fact that such practice […]
INDIA: India’s domestic and international human rights obligations are incompatible with the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 21, 2013 ALRC-CWS-23-02-2013 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twenty-third session, Agenda Item 3, Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status INDIA: India’s domestic and international human rights obligations are incompatible with the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 1. “The present case appears to be one where two persons along with some others were just seized from a hut, taken to a long distance away in a truck, and shot there. This type of activity cannot certainly be countenanced by the courts even in the case […]
PAKISTAN: The ALRC welcomes the recommendations of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 20, 2013 ALRC-CWS-23-01-2013 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twenty-third session, Agenda Item 3, Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status PAKISTAN: The ALRC welcomes the recommendations of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers 1. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) welcomes the report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers about Pakistan. The report has correctly reflected the problems the people face with the justice system of the country, which […]
INDONESIA: Ongoing violence in Papua and the need for dialogue
date: March 12, 2013 document id: ALRC-COS-22-13-2013 HRC section: Item 4, General Debate Speaker: Mr. Budi Tjahjono A Joint Oral Statement to the 22st Session of the UN Human Rights Council fromthe Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs / World Council of Churches ( CCIA/WCC), Dominicans for Justice and Peace (Order of Preachers), Franciscans International (FI), the International Coalition for Papua (ICP), Survival International (SI), United Evangelical Mission (UEM), Vivat International (VI), and the West Papua Netzwerk (WPN). INDONESIA: Ongoing violence in Papua and the need for dialogue This is a joint statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), the Commission of […]
MYANMAR: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
Date: March 12, 2013 Document ID: ALRC-COS-22-14-2013 HRC section: Item 4, General Debate Speaker: Vani Selvarajah A Joint Oral Statement to the 22nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council from Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), a non-governmental organization in special consultative status, Lawyers for Lawyers (L4L) and Asian Legal Resource Centre. MYANMAR: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Mr. President: Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, Lawyers for Lawyers and Asian Legal Resource Centre welcomes the report of the Special Rapporteur. 1 We share his appreciation of the progress towards recognition of human rights in Myanmar, 2 including the release of some prisoners of […]
PAKISTAN: Human rights will remain a mirage in Pakistan without state’s political will to guarantee them
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 22, 2013 ALRC-CWS-22-12-2013 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twenty second session, Agenda Item 6, General Debate A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status PAKISTAN: Human rights will remain a mirage in Pakistan without state’s political will to guarantee them 1. The Government of Pakistan will undoubtedly be proud of the number of votes it received in the re-election to the Human Rights Council. However, this might lead to the false idea that the country must be doing something right and therefore may continue to ignore its international obligations. Re-election should be a reward for […]