Posted on: September 21, 2018
A Written Submission to the 39th Regular Session of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) once again draws the attention of the Human Rights Council and the Special Procedures to the massive arbitrary detention occurring in Bangladesh. The country’s law-enforcement agencies, constituting the […]
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A Written Submission to the 39th 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 United Nations Human Rights Council to the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) that India has recently launched in the North […]
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A Written Submission to the 39th 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) about on-going impunity problems in Indonesia. It is related to past human rights abuses which remain unaddressed since former […]
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A Written Submission to the 39th Regular Session of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) would like to raise the issue of enforced disappearances in Bangladesh before the Human Rights Council. The situation has only deteriorated, without any possibility of improvement under the […]
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A Written Submission to the 39th 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 to the lack of progress in Nepal’s two transitional justice bodies. Nepal underwent an armed insurgency from […]
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NEPAL: Government should amend Transitional Justice Act in line with Supreme Court and international standards BANGLADESH: Inaccessible domestic remedies for enforced disappearances requires intervention INDONESIA: The Government cannot avoid the ad hoc Human Rights Court to address past human rights abuses INDIA: Minting a huge humanitarian crisis with national citizenship register in Assam BANGLADESH: Creation […]
Posted on: September 17, 2018
A Joint Oral Statementto the 27th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from 23 NGOs Mr. President, Franciscans International and VIVAT International in coalition with 16 international and national organizations would like to draw the Council’s attention to the still unresolved issue regarding the freedom of expression in the provinces of Papua and West […]
Posted on: September 11, 2018
INDIA: Ensure no submergence without complete rehabilitation of Sardar Sarovar Dam affected INDONESIA: Lack of justice and reparations strengthens impunity and encourages recurring violations BANGLADESH: Public justice system incapable of addressing relentless enforced disappearance INDIA: Government must put an end to outlawed Manual Scavenging now INDONESIA: Unresolved enforced disappearances keep family members in the dark […]
Posted on: June 21, 2018
A Written Submission to the 38th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to raise its concern and draws the attention on the recurring and systemic issue of violence against women in India In 2018, India was witness to some horrific […]
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A Written Submission to the 38th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) requests due attention to the issue of human trafficking and the related issue of threats to anti-trafficking activists in India. The ALRC has received information from its partner organisations across the […]
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A Written Submission to the 38th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), along with its sister concern, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) draws the attention of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations on the state of the human […]
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A Written Submission to the 38th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to inform the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) about the extreme poverty and health crisis faced by Asmat regency in Papua, Indonesia. Approximately 70 Papuan children died from […]
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A Written Submission to the 38th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) requests the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Council to the status of independence for lawyers and members of the judiciary in India. In January 2018, an unprecedented […]
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A Written Submission to the 38th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to inform the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) about the lack of accountability and independence of Indonesia’s judges and lawyers. One of the most serious problems threatening the […]
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A Written Submission to the 38th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) requests the attention of the Human Rights Council to the pattern of extrajudicial executions in Bangladesh. The incumbent government of Bangladesh has escalated extrajudicial executions in the country with […]
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BANGLADESH: Government escalates extrajudicial executions declaring ‘war on drugs’ INDONESIA: Summary executions recurring while perpetrators enjoy impunity INDIA: Climate of impunity allows extrajudicial executions to go unchecked INDONESIA: Corruption and bribery threatening judicial independence INDIA: Independence of lawyers and judges at the forefront INDIA: Right to freedom of opinion and expression deteriorating INDONESIA: Extreme poverty […]
Posted on: October 10, 2017
An Oral Statement to the 36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre Mr. President, Asia’s indigenous communities have been facing horrendous forms of human rights abuses at least since the past 200 years. The end of the colonial era in the region has not improved their lot, since […]
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An Oral Statement to the 36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre Mr. Vice President, The ALRC draws the Council’s attention to the one of the important issues that the Council should take up, that is to protect the Rohingya from what is increasingly referred to as “ethnic cleansing” […]
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An Oral Statement to the 36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre Mr. President, The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) highly commends the works of the Special Procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Special Procedures have been greatly contributing to develop international jurisprudence for the promotion […]
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An Oral Statement to the 36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre Mr. Vice President, The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) appreciates the challenging work undertaken by the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights. Within the Asian region, […]
