ALRC News
documents published by the Asian Legal Resource Centre
- Human Rights Council
- INDIA: Conscientious review required on the draft law against torture
- INDIA: AFSPA promotes armed insurgency in Manipur
- INDIA: Ignorance and pretence underscored in the new law
- INDIA: Is Justice Balakrishnan holding a devil's brief?
- UN: Demand Improvements by Human Rights Council Candidates
- NEPAL: Advocacy Forum and ALRC submit joint UPR report to the UN concerning ongoing violations and impunity
- BANGLADESH: Politics -- Corruption Nexus in Bangladesh: An Empirical Study of the Impacts on Judicial Governance
- SRI LANKA: Human Rights Books Detained by the Customs Department
- UN: Letter to UNESCO - Cancel UNESCO-Obiang Prize
- BURMA: New publication marks anniversary of Saffron Revolution
- BURMA/MYANMAR: Dossier of torture cases submitted to U.N. experts
- INDIA: Endemic delays bring down Delhi justice system -- new report
- INDIA: Concluding Observations issued by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- ASIA: The ALRC submits seven country reports to the UN's Universal Periodic Review mechanism
- BURMA: ALRC calls for special UN strategy group; expert urges concessions from government
- BURMA: New report urges closer study of Burma's "demented" legal system
- THAILAND: Constitutionalism under serious threat, new publication warns
- PHILIPPINES: Rotten criminal justice system victimizes every Filipino, new report says
- SUDAN: NGOs call for renewal of the mandate of UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Sudan
- MYANMAR: Thousands of people are displaced and starving
- INDIA: A crime against humanity in Gujarat and state government's complicity
- INDONESIA: Five years after May 1998 rights, those responsible for the atrocities remain at large
- ZIMBABWE: NGOs condemn abuses and obstruction of UN Special Rapporteur on Torture's visit
- INDIA: Judicial transparency is not an act of charity
- BURMA: Regional group urges U.N. experts on torture case
- NEPAL: Nepal urged to accept and implement UPR recommendations and end impunity
- EGYPT: Global civil society condemns abuses, calls for democratic reform and elections
- WORLD: The MDG-HR nexus - Need to understand deprivation of civil rights as a cause of poverty
- LIBYA: NGOs call for Libya's suspension from the Human Rights Council
- WORLD: Reprisals against persons cooperating with the UN: towards a strengthened institutional response
- BURMA: ALRC endorses call on rule of law
- ASIA: NGOs urge Asian States not to allow Syria to run for Human Rights Council membership
- BURMA: Un-rule of law and corruption deny rights, U.N. told
- SRI LANKA: Foreign Ministers urged to make Commonwealth meeting in Sri Lanka conditional on significant progress concerning human rights
- SUDAN/SOUTH SUDAN: Addressing the situation of human rights in Sudan and South Sudan at the 18th session of the UN Human Rights Council
- SRI LANKA: NGOs urge HRC President to enable accountability for violations in Sri Lanka
- THAILAND: International community urged on impunity of "drug war" killers
- SYRIA: NGOs call on UN General Assembly to condemn the violence in Syria
- SRI LANKA: NGOs urge postponement of Sri Lanka's hosting of top Commonwealth meeting, citing human rights concerns
- SYRIA: NGOs urge UN General Assembly to condemn ongoing grave rights abuses
- SYRIA: Joint call by civil society for a special session of the UN Human Rights Council
- INDIA: Human rights without justice a utopia
- MYANMAR: Appeal to review cases of 32 lawyers disbarred for political reasons
- BURMA: Bar councils exhorted to support Burmese lawyers
- UN: Joint letter opposing anti-NGO participation proposal concerning the UN's Minority Forum and Social Forum
- IRAN: Joint letter urging support for the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
- ASIA: NGOs calls for the drafting of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration to be transparent and subject to meaningful consultations with civil society
- PAKISTAN: UPR report calls for UN action on widespread torture, forced disappearances, killings, corruption, and attacks on women, minorities and human rights defenders
- SRI LANKA/FRANCE: Torture in Sri Lanka -- when arbitrariness prevails
- NEPAL: NGOs hold event on the need for greater international action on chronic human rights situations, with a focus on Nepal
- PHILIPPINES: Barriers to human rights - How complaint and protection mechanisms fail, and why
- BANGLADESH: Citizens and the UN deceived
- WORLD: The plan to impeach the Chief Justice of Sri Lanka and the imminent danger to the rule of law and democracy
- WORLD: The plan to impeach the Chief Justice of Sri Lanka and imminent danger to the rule of law and democracy in Sri Lanka
- BANGLADESH: Rights groups urge the international community to make UPR a meaningful process
- BANGLADESH: UPR Working Group should make the review process useful for victims of rights abuse
- BANGLADESH: Government suppressed truth to the UPR Session
