FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 8, 2012 ALRC-CWS-20-05-2012 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twentieth 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: Torture, forced confession and a death sentence in Myanmar: the case of Phyo Wai Aung On 8 May 2012, a judge in Yangon sentenced young engineer Phyo Wai Aung to death for his alleged involvement in a bombing attack in 2010 that killed 10 people and injured scores. His trial began on 30 June 2010, when Myanmar was still under a military junta. Since then, many important social and political changes […]
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MYANMAR: Myanmar at risk of land-grabbing epidemic
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 6, 2012 ALRC-CWS-20-03-2012 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twentieth 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: Myanmar at risk of land-grabbing epidemic In a written statement during its September 2011 session, the Asian Legal Resource Centre alerted the Human Rights Council to the dangers posed to the rights of people in Myanmar by the convergence of military, business and administrative interests in new projects aimed at displacing cultivators and residents from their farms and homes. At that time, the Centre wrote that whereas seizure of land has […]
NEPAL: Human Rights Council urged to ensure ongoing monitoring and action concerning Nepal’s increasingly precarious human rights situation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 5, 2012 ALRC-CWS-20-02-2012 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twentieth 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: Human Rights Council urged to ensure ongoing monitoring and action concerning Nepal’s increasingly precarious human rights situation The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and Advocacy Forum (AF) would like to draw the attention of the Human Rights Council to serious political developments in Nepal that risk engendering an acute human rights crisis in the country, which until recently hosted an Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) country office. […]
NEPAL: Human Rights Council urged to ensure ongoing monitoring and action concerning Nepal’s increasingly precarious human rights situation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 5, 2012 ALRC-CWS-20-02-2012 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twentieth 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: Human Rights Council urged to ensure ongoing monitoring and action concerning Nepal’s increasingly precarious human rights situation The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and Advocacy Forum (AF) would like to draw the attention of the Human Rights Council to serious political developments in Nepal that risk engendering an acute human rights crisis in the country, which until recently hosted an Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) country office. […]
MYANMAR: Justice trade obstructing human rights in Myanmar
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 4, 2012 ALRC-CWS-20-01-2012 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twentieth 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: Justice trade obstructing human rights in Myanmar The Asian Legal Resource Centre has in numerous previous written statements submitted to the Human Rights Council and to its predecessor described how the politicization and decrepitude of Myanmar’s courts, policing and prosecution agencies are major obstacles to the enjoyment of basic human rights in the country. In the last year, as political conditions have begun to change, many organizations and concerned individuals have […]
ASIA: ALRC and IMADR highlight concerns for minority rights in Pakistan, Indonesia and Nepal
date: March 23, 2012 document id: ALRC-COS-19-14-2012 HRC section: Item 3 – Interactive Dialogue with the Independent Expert on Minority Issues Speaker: Mr. Daisuke Shirane A Joint Oral Statement to the 19th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR) and the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organization in general consultative status ASIA: ALRC and IMADR highlight concerns for minority rights in Pakistan, Indonesia and Nepal Thank you Madam President, The ALRC and IMADR warmly welcome the Independent Expert’s first report, including the focus on the double discrimination faced by minority women. In Pakistan, extremist Islamic groups […]
THAILAND: Political repression, disappearances and attacks on activists highlighted during Thai UPR outcome adoption
date: March 22, 2012 document id: ALRC-COS-19-13-2012 HRC section: Item 6 — consideration of UPR reports — Thailand Speaker: Mr. Norman Voss An Oral Statement to the 19th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organization in general consultative status THAILAND: Political repression, disappearances and attacks on activists highlighted during Thai UPR outcome adoption Thank you Madam President, The ALRC welcomes Thailand’s UPR, which has highlighted many shared human rights concerns, including torture, forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, freedom of expression and lèse majesté, prison conditions, corruption, impunity, violations in the southern provinces, as well as the need for review of problematic […]
BURMA: Council warned of new challenges and a lack of progress concerning the protection of human rights
date: March 21, 2012 document id: ALRC-COS-19-12-2012 HRC section: Item 4 – Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Speaker: Mr. Norman Voss An Oral Statement to the 19th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organization in general consultative status BURMA: Council warned of new challenges and a lack of progress concerning the protection of human rights Thank you Mr. President, The ALRC would like to warmly welcome the Special Rapporteur’s report and work. While much attention is focussed on political developments in Myanmar, the ALRC is gravely concerned by the lack of […]
ASIA: Increasing efforts by Asian states to ensure impunity for abuses of human rights
date: March 21, 2012 document id: ALRC-COS-19-11-2012 HRC section: Item 4 — General Debate Speaker: Mr. Norman Voss An Oral Statement to the 19th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organization in general consultative status ASIA: Increasing efforts by Asian states to ensure impunity for abuses of human rights Thank you Mr. President, The ALRC wishes to highlight States’ increased efforts to engineer systems of impunity and to undermine work to protect human rights in the Asian region. The case of Bangladeshi human rights defender FMA Razzak, who was severely tortured by members of the military, including having his eyes […]
SRI LANKA: Abductors threaten the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 28, 2012 ALRC-CWS-19-10-2012 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Nineteenth 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 SRI LANKA: Abductors threaten the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is gravely concern about the abduction of Ramasamay Prabhakaran, 42, who was bundled into a white van by seven men armed with assault rifles and hand guns. This was two days before a fundamental rights case filed by him was to be taken up at the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. In a written statement to […]