Category: Written Submissions

INDIA: Mere legislation against custodial torture will not end the practice

37th Session - March 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Commission on Human Rights, India, Written Submissions February 25, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Government of India has once again started discussing about coming up with a national legislation to criminalise the practice of custodial torture and ill treatment. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) welcomes this move. However, the ALRC is concerned that despite the repeated assurances, nothing much has happened to table the new law in the parliament. In fact, the Union Government is not even engaged in open discussions with the civil society about the new law.

PAKISTAN: Impunity and disappearances rise hand in hand

37th Session - March 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Commission on Human Rights, Pakistan, Written Submissions February 25, 2018February 25, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) would like to draw the UN Human Rights Council’s attention to the practice of enforced disappearances, ongoing in Pakistan for the last many years. The ALRC is concerned about the increase in disappearance cases in Pakistan. The state has utterly and miserably failed to restrain law enforcement agencies, which are indulging in the practice with impunity.

INDONESIA: Minority Groups Freedom of Religion and Beliefs Remain on Paper

37th Session - March 2018, ALRC AT THE UN, Indonesia, Written Submissions February 25, 2018February 25, 2018 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations 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 on-going problems of freedom of religion and beliefs in Indonesia. So far the Government has failed to settle the old problems of religious conflict; therefore the same patterns still recur. These problems are twofold: #1 banning the establishment of places of worship by anti-tolerant groups and # 2 persecution of minority groups such as Ahmadiyya and Shi’a, up until today. The problem of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of Shi’a and Ahmadiyya in […]

INDONESIA: No justice for victims of enforced disappearances

36th Session - September 2017, ALRC AT THE UN, Commission on Human Rights, Indonesia, Written Submissions August 29, 2017 Admin 0 Comments

A written submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre More than two years since President Widodo was inaugurated in October 2014, the Indonesian government has shown little effort to settle cases of enforced disappearances which occurred under the Suharto dictatorship and under successive governments. Until now, the President and the Parliament have not yet shown their willingness to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, despite signing it nearly seven years earlier.

BANGLADESH: Unbridled state power and a collapsed justice framework behind enforced disappearances

36th Session - September 2017, ALRC AT THE UN, Bangladesh, Commission on Human Rights, Written Submissions August 28, 2017August 28, 2017 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to update the United Nations Human Rights Council about the situation of Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances in Bangladesh. Enforced disappearances are increasing alarmingly in Bangladesh since Mrs. Sheikh Hasina has become the Prime Minister in January 2009. The victims’ families and the eye-witnesses have consistently accused the law-enforcement agencies including the national police and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) for being responsible for enforced disappearances.

MYANMAR: International intervention required to stop ethnic cleansing against Rohingya people

36th Session - September 2017, ALRC AT THE UN, Burma / Myanmar, Commission on Human Rights, Written Submissions August 28, 2017August 28, 2017 Admin 0 Comments

A Joint Written Submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre and Odhikar The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and ODHIKAR – Coalition for Human Rights wishes to bring the situation of the Rohingya community of Rakhine state of Myanmar to the notice of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The ALRC and Odhikar seek immediate, effective action from the international human rights community to protect the victims of Rohingya Muslim community from ethnic cleansing by the military and security forces of Myanmar.

PAKISTAN: The world’s largest death row prisoners awaiting for their fate

36th Session - September 2017, ALRC AT THE UN, Human Rights Committee, Pakistan, Written Submissions August 28, 2017August 28, 2017 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) would like to draw the attention of the UN Human Rights Council to the state of death penalty in Pakistan. The right to life is the inalienable right of every human being. Pakistan’s Constitution, international norms and conventions dictate that no one shall be deprived of life and liberty. In Pakistan this right is only available to a select few. The normative laws may provide an extensive basis for the protection of the right to life. But the substantive laws, such as the Protection of Pakistan Act, 2014 and […]

BANGLADESH: Politics of undeserving governmental power and collapsed justice institution are key behind enforced disappearances

36th Session - September 2017, ALRC AT THE UN, Bangladesh, Written Submissions August 28, 2017 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 36th Regular Session of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to update the United Nations Human Rights Council about the situation of Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances in Bangladesh. Enforced Disappearances are increasing alarmingly in Bangladesh since Sheikh Hasina has been Prime Minister in January 2009. The victims’ families and the eye-witnesses have consistently accused the law-enforcement agencies including the Police and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) for the incidents of enforced disappearances.

INDONESIA: Arbitrary detention occurs widely and repeatedly without serious consequences

36th Session - September 2017, ALRC AT THE UN, Indonesia, Written Submissions August 27, 2017 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to draw the attention of the UN Human Rights Council to the problem of arbitrary arrest and detention in Indonesia, which occurs widely and frequently. Despite Indonesia being a State party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the needed redesigning of the justice institutions, to reduce arbitrary arrest and detention, has yet to be done.