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AHRC-PUB-002-2011

The provisions under the Constitution and the Standing Orders do not provide for a just and a fair inquiry by an impartial tribunal. This is the crux of the objections taken against the impeachment process. The UN Rapporteur for the independence of lawyers and judges and many international authorities have expressed serious concern about the impeachment issue and requested the government to reconsider the matter. This book consists of all these basic documents which will provide a comprehensive understanding of the matters involved in this discussion.

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has compiled a report of 1500 cases of police torture in Sri Lanka between 1998 and 2011. This particular report summarizes 323 of the most serious cases of torture. The most notable finding of this report is that almost all of the victims whose cases were summarized were randomly selected by the police to be arrested and detained for a fabricated charge. Perhaps the most shocking aspect of the criminal justice system in Sri Lanka is the overwhelmingly large number of charges which are fabricated by the police on a daily basis. Torture is used to obtain a confession for these fabricated charges.

The report includes in-depth assessments of the situations in Bangladesh, Burma, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The AHRC works on individual human rights cases in each of these countries and assists victims in their attempts to seek redress through their domestic legal systems, despite the difficulties encountered in each context.

A joint report on the human rights situation in Papua, Indonesia published by the Franciscans International, the Faith Based Network for West Papua and the Asian Human Rights Commission. The report covers civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights in the crisis region.

In Plato's Republic, Glaucon narrates a story about a ring of invisibility. The man who found the ring used his power to enter the palace, rape the queen, kill the king and to take over the throne.

Goal one: Extreme Poverty and Hunger ----- Goal seven: Ensure Environment Sustainability. A ground report on Hunger, Poverty & Climate Change in Madhya Pradesh by ALRC and VSS.

The Asian Human Rights Commission's 2010 annual report comprises an in-depth assessment of the state of human rights in eleven Asian nations: Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Thailand

In "The State of Human Rights in Ten Asian Nations - 2009" the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) presents analysis concerning the human rights situations, violations and developments it has encountered during its work in 2009.