8th Session – 2008 May

• BANGLADESH: Prolonged State of Emergency threatening the judiciary and human rights defenders’ ability to work
• ASIA: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Extra-judicial Killings and the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
• PHILIPPINES: Interactive Dialogue after the Report of the UNSR on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions
• BANGLADESH: The booming business of arbitrary arrests and detention under the State of Emergency
• BANGLADESH: Council member failing to take even minimal steps to address widespread torture within its borders
• PHILIPPINES: A series of unsolved murders reveals the lack of investigations into even the worst crimes in the country