Category: Oral Submissions

SRI LANKA: Killing and Enforced Disappearances of Religious Leaders and Attacks on Places of Religious Worship in Sri Lanka

6th Session - 2007 September, ALRC AT THE UN, Countries, documents, Human Rights Council, Oral Submissions, Sri Lanka September 14, 2007August 19, 2015 admin 0 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 14, 2007 AL-025-2007 A Joint Statement submitted by Rukshan Fernando on behalf of Pax Romana-ICMICA/MIIC, Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), FORUM-ASIA and the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR), in cooperation with Centre for Policy Alternatives, INFORM, Law & Society Trust (LST) and Rights Now, as part of the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief SRI LANKA: Killing and Enforced Disappearances of Religious Leaders and Attacks on Places of Religious Worship in Sri Lanka We would like to bring to the notice of the Council the trend of attacks on religious leaders and places of worship […]

ASIA: UN Human Rights Council statement in response to the High Commissioner for Human Rights

6th Session - 2007 September, ALRC AT THE UN, Asia, documents, Human Rights Council, Oral Submissions, World September 14, 2007August 19, 2015 admin 0 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 14, 2007 AL-026-2007 A Joint Statement delivered by Dulani Kulasinghe on behalf of FORUM-ASIA, Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR) and Pax Romana-ICMICA/MIIC in the debate with the High Commissioner for Human Rights ASIA: UN Human Rights Council statement in response to the High Commissioner for Human Rights Mr President, Madam High Commissioner, As Human Rights Defenders from Asia, we welcome the commitment and initiatives of you and your office for the protection of human rights in Asia, where domestic mechanisms continue to be inadequate. The lack of a regional human rights mechanism is also a serious […]

CAMBODIA: Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Representative for human rights in Cambodia

5th Session - 2007 June, ALRC AT THE UN, Cambodia, Commission on Human Rights, Countries, documents, Oral Submissions June 14, 2007August 19, 2015 admin 0 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 14, 2007 AL-016-2007 A Statement by the Asian Legal Resource Centre CAMBODIA: Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Representative for human rights in Cambodia Joint Oral Intervention by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia), the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, the International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID), and Migrants Rights International and Pax Romana, at the 5th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, during the Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for human rights in Cambodia, Professor Yash Ghai, on June 12, 2007. The Oral Intervention was presented by: […]

SRI LANKA: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers

5th Session - 2007 June, ALRC AT THE UN, Commission on Human Rights, Countries, documents, Oral Submissions, Sri Lanka June 12, 2007August 19, 2015 admin 0 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 12, 2007 AL-015-2007 A Statement by the Asian Legal Resource Centre SRI LANKA: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers The following is a statement delivered on behalf of the Asian Legal Resource Centre supported by the Law society and Trust, Sri Lanka at 5th Session of the UN Human Rights Council. June 11th 2007  5th Session of the UN Human Rights Council. Oral Intervention of the Asian Legal Resource Centre, Hong Kong supported by the Law and Society Trust, Sri Lanka Speaker: Ms. Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena Thank you Mr. President, The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) welcomes the report presented […]

Item 18(b) – Effective functioning of human rights mechanisms: National institutions and regional arrangements

CHR 56th Session - 2000, Commission on Human Rights, documents, Oral Submissions April 17, 2000August 8, 2015 admin 0 Comments

Following intervention was made by AYE HLA PHYU on behalf of Asian Legal Resource Centre on the afternoon of 17 April 2000 Dear Mr. Chairman, For some time now, several countries in Asia have promised to establish National Human Rights Commissions. These countries include South Korea, Bangladesh and Nepal.  However, despite prolonged discussions, these institutions have not yet been established.  One of the reasons is the unresolved problems relating to powers of the commissions.  India, Sri Lanka, Philippines and Indonesia  have already established National Human Rights Commissions. The National Human Rights Commission [of India] came into being through an Ordinance on 25 September, 1993. The Ordinance was replaced by an […]

Item 14(a) – Migrant Workers

CHR 56th Session - 2000, Commission on Human Rights, documents, Oral Submissions April 13, 2000August 8, 2015 admin 0 Comments

Joint Intervention: ALRC, LILA PILIPINA, and APWLD, Delivered by Tati Krisnawati on 13 April 2000 Mr. Chairperson. On behalf of the three organizations –, the ASIAN LEGAL RESOURCE CENTRE, the ASIA PACIFIC FORUM ON WOMEN, LAW AND DEVELOPMENT and LILA PILIPINA, we would like to draw your attention to the gross violations of the human rights of Asian women migrant workers. First of all, we would like to express our appreciation of the report of Secretary general on activities of the United Nations Bodies and other international organizations pertaining to the problem of trafficking in women and girls. Based on our observations, the trafficking of women and girls is part […]

Item 10 – Economic, social and cultural rights: Food Scarcity in Burma

CHR 56th Session - 2000, Commission on Human Rights, documents, Oral Submissions April 4, 2000August 8, 2015 admin 0 Comments

On April 4, 2000, Professor Mark Tamthai of the People’s Tribunal on Food Scarcity and Militarization in Burma addressed the UN Commission on Human Rights 56th Session in Geneva, Switzerland. Speaking under Item 10 of the Commission’s agenda, on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights, Professor Tamthai spoke to the Question of Food Scarcity in the Union of Myanmar.  The full text of his speech follows.  Please also see the People’s Tribunal web-site, www.hrschool.org/tribunal, for the written submission of the Asian Legal Resource Centre on the Right to Food in Myanmar. Mr. Chairman, On behalf of Asian Legal Resource Centre I would like to bring to the Commission’s attention findings of […]

Item 12 – Violence against Women in particular, trafficking in persons

CHR 56th Session - 2000, Commission on Human Rights, documents, Oral Submissions March 20, 2000August 8, 2015 admin 0 Comments

Oral Intervention by Lin Chew, on behalf of Asian Legal Resource Centre and Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women. Mr. Chairperson, In our written submission to this Commission, ALRC highlighted several forms of violence against women in Burma, India, and Pakistan. However, I would like to underline the seriousness of the life-threatening and systematic violation of the human rights of Dalit women in India, (the details are contained in ALRC written submission E/CN.4/2000/NGO/65). In India caste and gender discrimination is perpetrated in its worst forms on Dalit women. Dalit people are considered “out-castes” of Indian Society. Dalit women suffer three-fold discrimination: because they are women, because they are Dalits, and […]

Item 11(b) – Civil and Political Rights: Disappearances and Summary Executions

CHR 56th Session - 2000, Commission on Human Rights, documents, Oral Submissions March 20, 2000August 8, 2015 admin 0 Comments

Presented by Sanjeewa Liyanage, Mr. Chairman, On behalf of the Asian Legal Resource Centre I would like to draw the attention of this commission to a grave human rights problem faced in many Asian countries. Systematic causing of mass disappearances has left a permanent mark in the conscience of the many states in Asia as well as international community.  Enforced and involuntary disappearances is one of the horrifying and ugly phenomenon faced by the peoples of many Asian countries especially in Punjab in India, Kashmir, Aceh in Indonesia, East Timor, and Sri Lanka.  When a person disappears, there are many who are affected by such single instance.  Parents, brothers, sisters, […]

Item 9 – Question of the violence of human rights and fundamental freedoms in any part of the world

CHR 56th Session - 2000, Commission on Human Rights, documents, Oral Submissions March 20, 2000August 8, 2015 admin 0 Comments

Mr. Chairman, On behalf of Asian Legal Resource Centre I would like to bring to the attention of this Commission human rights violations suffered by the Dalits in India. Those who were once called Untouchables in India now call themselves ‘Dalits’, meaning ‘the oppressed. Indeed, they are one of most oppressed groups that history has ever known. They comprise 17% of the Indian population. In sheer numbers, the problem affects at least 170 million men and women. However, this figure excludes those Dalits who have become Muslims or Christians. After a thousand years of exclusion from society they continue to be in limbo in Indian society, despite the legal abolition […]