15th Session – 2010 September

• ASIA: Effective witness protection lacking in Indonesia and Nepal
• BANGLADESH: Death penalty continues despite a flawed criminal justice system
• BANGLADESH: Increasing incidence of enforced disappearances being committed with impunity must be halted
• BURMA/MYANMAR: The absence of normative and institutional frameworks to protect human rights in Myanmar
• BURMA/MYANMAR: Legal and institutional encouragement of torturers in Myanmar
• NEPAL: Credible action required to address ongoing missing persons tragedy
• NEPAL: The Haliya bonded labour slavery system must be abolished without further delay
• PAKISTAN: Government urged to commute all death sentences and abolish the death penalty
• PAKISTAN: Thousands of persons remain missing amid government inaction
• PHILIPPINES: Reforms required immediately to protect witnesses
• SRI LANKA: Lack of safe drinking water leading to upsurge in health problems
• INDIA: Bonded labour in India
• SRI LANKA: Right to the truth required regarding “death sentences” carried out secretly by state agencies
• THAILAND: Arbitrary detention and harassment under the Emergency Decree in Thailand
• ASIA: Council urged to address the lack of effective domestic witness protection systems in Asia
• ASIA: Council must abandon appeasement of authoritarianism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar