Books

(Hong Kong, November 6, 2013): The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) has published a new book titled, “Human Rights and Governance: Bangladesh” edited by Md Shariful Islam, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Dhaka, and contributed by eleven authors, including the editor, in nine chapters. The edited...

Please note that on 25.10.2013 at 12.00 a.m. (GMT +8) an updated version of the report was put online with a corrected image on page 32 and page 94 Title : The Neglected Genocide – Human rights abuses against Papuans in the Central Highlands, 1977 – 1978 ISBN : 978-962-8314-63-8 (online) Language : English, Indonesian [&hellip...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 22, 2013 A Publication by the Asian Human Rights Commission The online issue of this publication may be found here. The Sinhala publication, Manawe Himikam is a monthly journal devoted to discussions on current issues. In this edition several issues and incidents reported and discussed. This volume has severa...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2013 A Publication by the Asian Human Rights Commission The online issue of this publication may be found here. The Sinhala publication, Manawe Himikam is a monthly journal devoted to discussions on current issues. In this edition several issues are discussed. The United Nations High Commissioner for Hu...

The Asian Human Right Commission’s Annual Report for 2012 casts an unflinching eye at the state of human rights in 10 Asian countries. The report does not purport to cover all human rights issues in Bangladesh, Burma, India,Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.However, with differing depths of in...

The online issue of this publication may be found here. The Sinhala publication, Manawe Himikam is a monthly journal devoted to discussions on current issues. In this edition several issues and incidents reported and discussed. The arrest of DIG Vaas Gunaratna and the implications of a topmost policeman being engaged in the assassination ...

ALRC-PUB-001-2013 June 28, 2013 A Publication by the Asian Legal Resource Centre Print Version ISBN: 978-962-8161-11-9 Online Version ISBN: 978-962-8161-12-6 The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), the sister organisation of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) announces the publication of Narrative of Justice in Sri Lanka as told thr...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 29, 2013 The Asian Human Rights Commission is pleased to announce the publication of the 2nd issue of Srilankavae Manawa Himikam (Human Rights in Sri Lanka). This issue includes articles on the Vesak celebrations, the mass grave at Matale, a comment on the advice of the Chief Justice to the lawyers […]

This issue covers many current issues relating to human rights in Sri Lanka such as the resolution before the United Nations for Reconciliation and Accountability in Sri Lanka and the opportunities that this resolution opens up for resolving some of the troubling problems in the country, the mass grave found in Matale and its implications...

The motion for the impeachment of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake has caused the most important constitutional crisis experienced in Sri Lanka in the recent decades. This is the third occasion in which such impeachments have been brought since the 1978 Constitution. In fact, prior to the 1978 Constitution there was no such attempted i...