FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2013 ALRC-CWS-24-05-2013 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twenty-fourth 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 INDIA: Between the rock and a hard place – children in armed conflict 1. India ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1992 with a declaration on Article 32. It has ratified the two Optional Protocols to the Convention, on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict on 30 November 2005 and on Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography on 16 August 2005. Yet, children in India […]
Category: ALRC AT THE UN
BANGLADESH: State abuses UPR process due to lack of enforceability of UN human rights machinery
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 3, 2013 ALRC-CWS-24-04-2013 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twenty-fourth session, Agenda Item 6, General Debate Joint written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status, together with Odhikar in Bangladesh BANGLADESH: State abuses UPR process due to lack of enforceability of UN human rights machinery 1. In the UN Universal Periodic Review, Bangladesh has successfully abused the UPR Process, courtesy weakness in the enforcement of UN Human Rights machinery. 2. At the UN Human Rights Council’s UPR process on 29 April 2013, during the 16th Session of the UPR Working Group in Geneva, Bangladesh’s human rights record […]
INDONESIA: The government must provide remedies for victims of past human rights violations, including those which took place during the DOM period in Papua and Aceh
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 2, 2013 ALRC-CWS-24-03-2013 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twenty-fourth session, Agenda Item 3, General Debate Joint written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status, together with The Commission for the Disappeared and the Victims of Violence (KontraS) in Indonesia INDONESIA: The government must provide remedies for victims of past human rights violations, including those which took place during the DOM period in Papua and Aceh 1. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and the Commission for the Disappeared and the Victims of Violence (KontraS) wish to bring to the notice of the Human Rights Council (HRC) […]
THAILAND: The Normalization of the Violation of Human Rights in the Name of Protecting the Monarchy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 30, 2013 ALRC-CWS-24-02-2013 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twenty-fourth 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 Normalization of the Violation of Human Rights in the Name of Protecting the Monarchy 1. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to raise concerns about the normalization of the violation of human rights in the name of protecting the monarchy in Thailand with the Human Rights Council. This statement is the seventh on this topic that the ALRC has submitted to the Council since May 2011. During the seventeenth […]
PAKISTAN: Government must commute death sentences and protect the people’s right to life
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 29, 2013 ALRC-CWS-24-01-2013 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twenty-fourth 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 PAKISTAN: Government must commute death sentences and protect the people’s right to life 1. The new Pakistani government under the Pakistan Muslim League –Nawaz, is moving into office in September and is set to commence killing death row inmates within the next week, despite pleas by the international community to stay the death penalty. 400 inmates are set to be executed by the end of 2013. Critics of the PML-N fear that […]
PAKISTAN: Pakistanis facing beheading in Saudi Arabia need immediate UN intervention
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 6, 2013 ALRC-CWS-24-07-2013 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twenty-fourth 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 PAKISTAN: Pakistanis facing beheading in Saudi Arabia need immediate UN intervention 1. In view of the discussion on human rights, which is due to be held during the month of September 2013, the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) would like to direct the attention of the Human Rights Council (HRC) to denial of justice and fair trail being faced by several young Pakistanis detained in Saudi Arabia. 2. Some of young men […]
NEPAL: Serious concerns for the security of human rights defenders remain
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 […]
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 […]