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A bi-monthly magazine on the issue of torture. Torture is often used by authoritarian regimes as a means of maintaining control and suppressing dissent. Our policy is against any form of torture and creates a common platform to everyone in Asia and around the globe, to come forward to speak out against torture. In releasing […]
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MARJORIE COHN is a professor of law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego California. As a former president of the US National Lawyers Guild, Professor Cohn lectures throughout the world on human rights and US foreign policy. She is also a prolific writer, most recently editing Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and […]
Despite the political achievements of 2006, no proper transitional justice mechanisms, for example a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, have been established to address the human rights violations that occurred during the conflict. The victims of human rights abuses await justice while the perpetrators enjoy total impunity writes KAMAL RAJ PATHAK. Download Full Document Here
WHEN knowledge is limited to only quantifiable facts and events, we “become blind to the most important meanings of human existence,” pointed out Ignacio Martin-Baró once in his extraordinary work. He was a Jesuit priest who was murdered together with five other colleagues and their housekeeper and her young daughter by the Salvadoran government’s elite […]
Interestingly, among the Hong Kong political elites who agreed that there was validity to the concept of distinct Asian values, there was significant disagreement as to what such values actually meant. The affirmative sample broke into three groups. Download Full Document Here
Since the early 1970s, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed by the government and by the non-state actors who led insurrections against the neo-feudal governmental apparatus in an attempt to reform society. However, the government was able to crackdown on the challenges to their rule while picking up those who were engaged the […]
The importance of the Long March is in the march itself, which is addressing the present situation and a hope towards a peaceful solution. Thousands of innocents who are in the custody of the Pakistan military are facing the same needs of the hour. We as human beings need freedom, and justice, and a true […]
The truth has been placed before us that the passing of laws does not mean people will benefit from them without proper implementation through the criminal justice system in the particular country. In the words of the great poet Rabindranath Tagore, “facts are many, but the truth is one.” Download Full Document Here
Time has value if one explores one’s experiences, for one’s mind decides mostly by experience. We have spent centuries trying to understand humanity and the capacity of the human mind to preserve its sovereignty.Thereafter, we have spent more years to give form to our discoveries of morality and dignity resulting in sovereignty being confirmed through […]
We are on the edge of the new era of extremism and fundamentalism which constantly challenges and curtails the personal liberty of the people, and that reduces mankind’s desire for freedom to little more than a dream. We are in the miserable position of not just trying to fight these enemies, but also of just […]
Nothing can justify torture under any circumstances. But torture is still an endemic issue for mankind, confirming that many countries are not keen to criminalize torture. Many state and non-state actors provide justifications in this regard, while thousands of people continue to become victims of this inhuman practice, which has its origin in the jungle […]
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