FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 19, 2010 ALRC-CWS-14-02-2010 Language(s): English only HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Fourteenth session, Agenda Item Item 3, Interactive Dialogue A Joint Written Statement to the 14th Session of the Human Rights Council from Lawyers� Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) and the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) SPAIN: Statement on Behalf of Judge Baltasar Garz�n & Judicial Independence Restore Judge Baltasar Garz�n (Garz�n) to office1 LRWC and ALRC call on the Human Rights Council to call on Spain to: 1. Comply with its duty to investigate over 100,000 enforced disappearnaces (disappearances) and extra-judicial executions (executions) alledged to have occured during the Franco dictatorhip and the civil war. 2. Ensure that […]
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THAILAND: “Unsubstantiated” police abuses, impunity and human rights charades
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 3, 2009 ALRC-CWS-12-05-2009 HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twelfth session � Item 4 A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status THAILAND: “Unsubstantiated” police abuses, impunity and human rights charades 1. Following the 11th session of the Human Rights Council the Government of Thailand objected to the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) over it having characterized the Royal Thai Police as the top violator of human rights in that country. The government representative described remarks that the police in Thailand enjoy impunity for rights abuses as “unsubstantiated”. 2. The ALRC categorically rejects the complaint of the government that […]