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The State of Human Rights in Ten Asian Nations 2011
The State of Human Rights in Ten Asian Nations - 2011 is the Asian Human Rights Commission's (AHRC) annual report, comprising information and analysis on the human rights violations and situations it encountered through its work in 2011. 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. Through this work, the organisation gains detailed practical knowledge of the obstacles and systemic lacuna that prevent the effective protection of rights and enable impunity for the perpetrators of violations. Based on this , the organisat ion then makes recommendations concerning needed reforms to the legal frameworks and state institutions in each setting. This work aims to enable the realisation of rights in a region that remains blighted by crippled institutions of the rule of law, which are enabling systemic impunity for the gamut of grave human rights violations, including torture, forced disappearances, extra-judicial killings, attacks on and discrimination against minorities, women and human rights defenders, as well as widespread violations of a range of other political, economic and social rights, including the right to food.
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Politics -- Corruption Nexus in Bangladesh: An Empirical Study of the Impacts on Judicial Governance
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) has published a new book titled "Politics -- Corruption Nexus in Bangladesh: An Empirical Study of the Impacts on Judicial Governance". The book -- written by Md. Shariful Islam, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Dhaka -- presented an overview of the basic institutions that are directly linked to the rule of law and criminal justice system, especially the Subordinate Judiciary of the country.
Read More…The Phantom Limb: Failing Judicial Systems, Torture and Human Rights Work in Sri Lanka
This study is a result of the cooperation between the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT).
Read More…Abadilla 5 FAMILIES: When will their waiting end?
An ethnographic research by Fr. Roberto P. Reyes; this book of interviews with the family members of the Philippines' Abadilla 5 details their travails in their quest for justice and how the incarceration of their loved ones has ultimately derailed their lives.
Read More…A Baseline Study on Torture in Sri Lanka
This study is made with the purpose of generating knowledge on all issues relating to the prevention of torture in Sri Lanka. In such studies on human rights, it is necessary to pay attention to some matters regarding the use of information as pointed out by Harry G. Frankfurt in two small books, 'On Bullshit' and 'On Truth'.
Read More…The Inability to Prosecute and Failure to Protect Human Rights in Asia
A group of jurists, legal academics and lawyers from around Asia on 17 to 21 November 2008 gathered in Hong Kong for the Fourth Asian Human Rights Consultation on the Asian Charter of Rule of Law, on the theme of prosecution systems in Asia.
Read More…Giving Voice to the Voiceless
Using Testimony as a Brief Therapy Intervention in Psychosocial Community Work for Survivors of Torture and Organised Violence A Manual for Community Workers and Human Rights Activitists in Sri Lanka
Read More…Recovering the authority of public institutions - a resource book on law and human rights in Sri Lanka
The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to inform you about its new publication 'Recovering the authority of public institutions'.
Read More…258 Dark Days
Among the thousands of people who have disappeared in Nepal, Jit Man Basnet is one of the few who has shared the everyday anguish of those whose lives were suddenly snatched from them because they sought to exercise their rights. Mr. Basnet’s autobiographical account of his painful ordeal in 2004 behind the walls of the army’s Bhairabnath Battalion barracks in Kathinandu is rendered in the style of a novel except that it is not a fictional narrative of state-sanctioned violence.
Read More…PRISONS...Manila Pen and Beyond
On November 29, 2007, after a hearing at the Regional Trial Court of Makati, several military officers being tried for the Oakwood alleged coup d'etat led by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, walked out of City Hall together with their witness BGen. Danilo Lim and several others.
Read More…Sri Lanka: Towards A Contempt of Courts Law
The state should not treat courts as a funny place. The powerful sectors of society should also not treat the courts as a funny place. The bureaucracy should also not act in that manner. Particularly the law enforcement agencies should not treat courts as funny place. Similarly, the citizens also owe an obligation to treat the courts with due seriousness;
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