FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ALRC-CWS-29-02-2015 June 08, 2015 Written submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre INDIA: Extrajudicial executions and torture are defining characters of India’s security establishment The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, after his visit to India from 19 to 30 March 2012 has filed a report to the 23rd Session of the Human Rights Council held in 2013. To the observations made by the Rapporteur in his report, the Government of India has filed comments on 27 May 2013. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) supports the report made by the Rapporteur, particularly concerning the following subjects, to […]
Category: ALRC AT THE UN
PAKISTAN: The State should be asked to declare all kinds of private courts to be illegal, and enforce the same
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ALRC-CWS-29-10-2015 June 09, 2015 A Written Submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre PAKISTAN: The State should be asked to declare all kinds of private courts to be illegal, and enforce the same The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) would like to draw the attention of the UN Human Rights Council to the plight of Pakistani women. Despite making advances in many fields previously thought to be male dominated, women in Pakistan are actively discriminated against by a variety of state and non state actors, and subjected to violence without possibility of redress. In Article 25, the Constitution of Pakistan states, […]
NEPAL: Need for local elections, exposed by the earthquake
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ALRC-CWS-29-09-2015 June 09, 2015 A Written Submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre NEPAL: Need for local elections, exposed by the earthquake The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) joins the world in grieving the loss of human lives, property, and cultural history in Nepal during and after the massive earthquake that struck at 11:50 a.m. on 25 April 2015. The 7.9 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter 80 km east of Pokhara has devastated the country, resulting in at least 8,604 human casualties, injuries to at least 17,838, displacement of millions, and widespread damage across the Himalayan nation. The response in the […]
INDONESIA: Right to freedom of assembly and association acknowledged, but not protected
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ALRC-CWS-29-08-2015 June 09, 2015 A Written Submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre INDONESIA: Right to freedom of assembly and association acknowledged, but not protected Despite Indonesia’s Law No. 9 of 1998 guaranteeing freedom of expression in public areas, the protection of the right to freedom of assembly and association in the country remains fragile. In the last three years there have been frequent brutal attacks and forced dispersing of peaceful demonstrations, film screenings, and public discussions initiated by labour, land, and environmental activists, as well as prayer meetings organized by religious groups. Citizens and activists meeting to express their political […]
NEPAL: Custodial torture is rooted in the police stations of Nepal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ALRC-CWS-29-07-2015 June 08, 2015 Written submission to the UN HRC by the Asian Legal Resource Centre NEPAL: Custodial torture is rooted in the police stations of Nepal The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), along with the Terai Human Rights Defenders (THRD) Alliance, would like to bring the entrenched practice of custodial torture in Nepal to the attention of the UN Human Rights Council. In relation to the decade-long conflict period from 1996 to 2006, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, following a visit to Nepal in September 2005, concluded, inter alia, that “Torture is systematically practiced by the police, […]
PHILIPPINES: Government policy and practice defeat UN’s objective to eliminate killings
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ALRC-CWS-29-06-2015 June 08, 2015 A Joint Written Submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre and KARAPATAN Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights – Philippines PHILIPPINES: Government policy and practice defeat UN’s objective to eliminate killings The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and KARAPATAN Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights – Philippines (Karapatan ) welcome the General Assembly’s Resolution (A/HRC/RES/26/12) reaffirming the “need for effective action to combat and eliminate the abhorrent practice of extrajudicial” killings. The failure, if not inability, to hold the perpetrators accountable,” as the Resolution rightly pointed, “remains the main cause of the continued occurrence” of […]
PAKISTAN: Rights Safeguards Rendered Meaningless in the face of Extrajudicial Killings
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ALRC-CWS-29-05-2015 June 08, 2015 A Written submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre PAKISTAN: Rights Safeguards Rendered Meaningless in the face of Extrajudicial Killings The Asian Legal Resource Centre is extremely concerned about the continuing extrajudicial killings in Pakistan, and the impunity with which they are committed. Instead of using legal and constitutional methods to stop such practices of the law enforcement agencies, the government of Pakistan has sought to make extrajudicial killings legal and constitutional. The law enforcement agencies (LEAs), particularly the military and its intelligence agencies, have been given the power to shoot suspects on sight and to try […]
BANGLADESH: UN rights mechanisms need reshaping to address extrajudicial executions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ALRC-CWS-29-01-2015 May 25, 2015 Joint written submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre and Odhikar BANGLADESH: UN rights mechanisms need reshaping to address extrajudicial executions The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and Odhikar request the UN Human Rights Council to consider amending the human rights mechanisms so that the entrenched problems of extrajudicial executions can be addressed. The ALRC makes this request on the basis of experience working on extrajudicial executions in Bangladesh, where no judicial or administrative remedies are accessible for such crimes. Extrajudicial executions in Bangladesh have been gradually institutionalised in the last decade or so. Since the creation […]
ASIA: Intimidation and threats on human rights defenders advocating protection for rights of migrant workers
Date of issue: March 17, 2015 Date of submission: March 10, 2015 Document ID: ALRC-COS-28-08-2015 Speaker: Unread for lack of time HRC Session: 28 Agenda Item No. 3 Debate Type: Interactive Dialogue An Oral Statement to the 28th Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organization in general consultative status, and Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM), a regional non-governmental institution working on and with migrants. ASIA: Intimidation and threats on human rights defenders advocating protection for rights of migrant workers Thank you Mr. Vice President, The ALRC and the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants would like to draw the attention […]
PAKISTAN: Government must guarantee fundamental right of freedom of religion to all
ALRC-CWS-07-007-2015 March 04, 2015 A written submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre PAKISTAN: Government must guarantee fundamental right of freedom of religion to all 1. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to bring to the attention of the UN Human Rights Council the deteriorating state of freedom of religion, belief, and faith in Pakistan. An increasing number of minority families are being forced to flee Pakistan. Minorities, especially Christians, Hindus, and Ahmadis, are being subjected to mass violence, terrorist acts, and abuse of blasphemy laws. 2. While fleeing Christians, Ahmadis, and even Shias have ended up in various states of South and […]