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51st Regular Session – September 2022

Posted on: September 19, 2022

BANGLADESH: Independent Investigative Mechanism Needed for Affording Justice to Victims of Enforced Disappearances


50th Regular Session – July 2022

Posted on: June 19, 2022

ASIA: Democratic Governance Equipped with the Rule of Law Required for Ending Arbitrary Deprivation of Life ASIA: Victims and Litigants Suffer in Absence of Independent Judiciary and Legal Profession BANGLADESH: Victims of Gross Human Rights Abuses are Defenceless in Absence of Judicial Independence INDONESIA: State Curbs Freedom of Expression amidst Non-stop Human Rights Violations in […]


40th Session – March 2019

Posted on: February 27, 2019

INDIA: Country must bring its missing children back BANGLADESH: Criminalisation of torture goes hand in hand with institutionalisation INDONESIA: New Penal Code Bill must protect freedom of religion and belief


MYANMAR: Blaming the victims must end to find a solution to the crisis

Posted on: September 22, 2018

An Oral Statement to the 27th Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council from the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) Mr. President. The ALRC fully supports the calls made by the High Commissioner for Human Rights in his speech today. We appreciate the efforts by this Council to address the ongoing Rohingya crisis, that […]


27th Special Session

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MYANMAR: Blaming the victims must end to find a solution to the crisis


ASIA: Protection of rights of the minorities requires capable justice institutions

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An Oral Statement to the 37th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) Mr. President. The situation of human rights of the minorities – of ethnic, religious, indigenous, linguistic, or geo-political targets – in Asian countries is a matter of our collective concern. We see non-Muslim girls […]


ASIA: Protection of children from violence and armed conflicts require sincere and comprehensive actions by states

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An Oral Statement to the 37th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) Mr. President. Governance guaranteeing liberal democracy, equal enjoyment of economic, social, cultural as well as civil and political rights ensuring fair access to the public and natural resources are deeply related to the persistent […]


ASIA: Failure to uphold truth and justice and prevent genocide would endanger the existence of human beings in future

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An Oral Statement to the 37th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) Mr. President. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is concerned about the process of resolving the grives of the victims in Asian countries. In Indonesia, President Joko Widodo has yet shown his seriousness in […]


ASIA: States encroach into personal privacy for so called security without securing the citizens’ rights

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An Oral Statement to the 37th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) Mr. President. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is concerned over the fast-paced deterioration of the right to privacy of persons and the prevalence of the sale of children in Asia. Asian states have […]


ASIA: Protection of right to food is out of agenda as environmental rights are undermined for corruption-friendly policies

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An Oral Statement to the 37th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) Mr. President. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) shares the concerns of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food citing the report of the FAO stressing the fact that the hunger levels have […]


MYANMAR: Victims of crime against humanity deserve justice

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An Oral Statement to the 37th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) Madam Vice President. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) finds the report and oral updates presented by the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar and the Chairperson of the Independent […]


ASIA: Corrupt justice architecture and impunity impede human rights

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An Oral Statement to the 37th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) Mr. President. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, thematic and country mandates together with the civil society has been working objectively to protect people from gross violation of rights. There is, […]


BANGLADESH: Gross violation of human rights by the Government cannot be hidden behind Rohingya refugee issues

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An Oral Statement to the 37th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) Mr. President. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is highly concerned over the human rights situation in Bangladesh. There have been 421 enforced disappearances, 1480 extrajudicial executions, 120 deaths due to torture from January […]


ASIA: Working against torture poses threats to human rights defenders

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An Oral Statement to the 37th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) Mr. President. Torture and ill treatment are institutionalised in the criminal justice architecture of most Asian states and is practiced as state policy. Crime investigation often begins and ends with a confession statement for which torture is used […]


INDONESIA: Recurring Torture Judicial System failed to address

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A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to inform the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) regarding torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment occurring in Indonesia at this time. We note […]


PAKISTAN: Rising violence against children

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A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) would like to draw the UN Human Rights Council’s attention to the rise in violence against children in Pakistan. The Realization of Children’s Rights Index has ranked Pakistan […]


BANGLADESH-INDIA: Rising energy demand cannot be used for destroying people and their habitats

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A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to draw attention of the Human Rights Council to massive displacements and damage to habitats caused across Asia for meeting growing energy needs. A case in point is that of […]


SOUTH ASIA: Asia’s children on the verge of severe malnourishment

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A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to draw attention of the Human Rights Council to the massive relapse of severe malnutrition among children in Asia, reversing the advances made over decades. The relapse is particularly […]


NEPAL: Repeated tenure extensions of transitional justice bodies without much progress, has been frightening victims and national and international communities

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A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to draw the attention of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to Nepal’s two transitional justice bodies. They are the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the […]


PAKISTAN: Rights defenders remain at high risk

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A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) would like to draw the UN Human Rights Council’s attention to the rise in violence against Human Rights Defenders in Pakistan. It is unfortunate that human rights defenders, […]