Category: ALRC AT THE UN

INDONESIA: Corruption and bribery threatening judicial independence

38th Session - June 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Human Rights Council, Indonesia, Written Submissions May 29, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 38th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to inform the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) about the lack of accountability and independence of Indonesia’s judges and lawyers. One of the most serious problems threatening the Indonesian judiciary is corruption, involving judges, court clerks and lawyers. Not only does such corruption have a negative impact on the accountability of judges and lawyers, but it also seriously undermines fair trial and due process.

INDIA: Climate of impunity allows extrajudicial executions to go unchecked

38th Session - June 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Extrajudicial killings, Human Rights Council, India, Written Submissions May 29, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 38th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is writes to the United Nations Human Rights Council seeking its attention and intervention considering the violent culture of extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions in India.

INDONESIA: Summary executions recurring while perpetrators enjoy impunity

38th Session - June 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Extrajudicial killings, Human Rights Council, Indonesia, Written Submissions May 29, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 38th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to inform the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) regarding the situation of extrajudicial executions (summary executions) in Indonesia.

BANGLADESH: Government escalates extrajudicial executions declaring ‘war on drugs’

38th Session - June 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Bangladesh, Extrajudicial killings, Human Rights Council, Written Submissions May 29, 2018May 29, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 38th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) requests the attention of the Human Rights Council to the pattern of extrajudicial executions in Bangladesh. The incumbent government of Bangladesh has escalated extrajudicial executions in the country with new excuses.

NEPAL: Deeply engrained racial discrimination continues

ALRC AT THE UN, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Nepal, Written Submissions April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A written submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) by the Asian Legal Resource Centre and the Terai Human Rights Defenders Alliance The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and the Terai Human Rights Defenders Alliance (THRDA) wishes to draw the attention of the CERD Committee to the following concerns directly under the purview of the CERD Committee to review and make necessary recommendations to the Government of Nepal. These have been documented by us in the course of our work in Nepal, all of which clearly demonstrate the deeply engrained continuing racial discrimination in Nepal: