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Printed by Ravaya Publishers and distributed at all bookshops. It consists of 151 pages consisting of 17 chapters and a further chapter explaining the reasons for writing this book. The cover page reproduces a picture taken at Baranas (Varanasi) of mustard plant flowers. Its symbolism to Sri Lankan culture is explained in the chapter entitled 'I saw mustard flowers at Baranas'.

In recent years AHRC and ALRC have published considerable material on Sri Lanka's legal and justice systems as well as its human rights abuses. AHRC also frequently issues statements on current human rights issues in various countries. During 2005, numerous statements were issued concerning Sri Lanka. Most of these were reproduced in Sri Lankan newspapers and other publications.

A group of 24 persons from Cambodia, China, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Thailand gathered in Hong Kong from February 16-21, 2006, for the first consultation on the launching of the Asian Charter on the Rule of Law. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) proposed the drafting of such a charter in October 2005.

This publication consists of a series of lessons, prepared by the Human Rights Correspondence School, a project of the AHRC, on the relationship between the rule of law and the implementation of human rights in Asia. The four lessons deal respectively with the rule of law and human rights implementation, the role of the police, the role of the prosecution and the role of the judiciary. Together, the lessons speak to the flaws in each of the justice mechanisms - the police, prosecution and judiciary - and using specific cases from different Asian countries, are able to show how these flaws prevent the realization of people's rights.

Since the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of people living on the Gnga-Padma embankment in Malda and Murshidabad have fallen prey to the wrath of angry rivers. Due to continuous erosion of river Padma, people in the area have been losing their agricultural lands, fleeing their homes, reeling under poverty and even starving to death...

Asia's people continue to suffer from the endemic use of torture and other violent practices that deny them their basic human rights and, at the same time, an absence of the rule of law. The former flourish because of the latter. These conclusions are well documented in the book The State of Human Rights in Ten Asian Countries-2005 that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has released on Jan. 17, 2006, in Hong Kong. The book is the product of comprehensive research conducted during the past year by the AHRC on human rights conditions in Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Thailand that was prepared for International Human Rights Day on Dec. 10, 2005.

This paper is an attempt to introduce how one regional human rights organisation, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), has evolved to develop a local network of grassroots level organisations in Sri Lanka, to resist and overcome the repression faced by the people of that country.

This is the 3rd report produced on police torture and other abuses in Sri Lanka by AHRC and ALRC. The first report entitled Special Report: Torture committed by the police in Sri Lanka was published in the ALRC's bi-monthly publication article 2, vol 1, no.4 in August 2002.

The Fact Sheet is a popular reading matter systematically introducing the ICC, including Brief Introduction of the ICC, Q & A of the ICC, Ratification States of Rome Statute, meanwhile, collecting applicable basic documents for the ICC, such as Rome Statute, Rules of Procedure and Evidence, and Elements of Crimes. Particularly, for facilitating scholars who devote themselves to the research of international criminal law and the International Criminal Court. The Fact Sheet provides an index of research outputs in the field of the International Criminal Court, which is done by domestic experts and scholars at the end of the Fact Sheet.

Mousumi, a teenaged girl hailed from a poor family in Narayanpur village, Kakdwip, 24-parganas. Married at her tender age of fourteen and half. At the age of seventeen, she fell prey to the wrath of her in-laws, for dowries. She was murdered, eventually. According to the definition of the United Nations - it is a case of child-murder.