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    • SRI LANKA: Best of Laws and the Worst of Law Enforcement – The IMF and the IGP
    • ශ්‍රී ලංකා: ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදල හා දූෂණ මර්ධනය
    • SRI LANKA: The criteria for the selection of the new Inspector General of Police
    • NEPAL: A statement on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023
    • INDONESIA: The police must immediately stop the investigation and prosecution of three human rights defenders
    • SRI LANKA: AHRC condemns the murder of Nimal Amarasiri caused by misuse of teargas on peaceful protesters
    • SRI LANKA: Few Reflections on the Sri Lanka’s Independence Day
    • INDONESIA: A Papuan journalist faced terror and intimidation due to a loud explosion
    • INDONESIA: Waiting for the follow-up on the State’s regret and acknowledgment of 12 past cases of serious human rights violations
    • SRI LANKA: Two decisions that expose the utter collapse of rule of law
    • INDONESIA: Monitoring and Investigation of the Kanjuruhan Stadium Case
    • Indonesia: The Government must seriously consider that the enactment of the RKUHP leaves serious problems
    • NEPAL: Ensure dignity, freedom, and justice for all
    • SRI LANKA: POLICE ON TRIAL: Exercising Authority without Accountability
    • SRI LANKA: Peaceful Protesters Face Attacks, Reprisals, and Arbitrary Detention
    • INDONESIA: A university student in North Halmahera allegedly tortured after express his opinion on WhatsApp status
    • BANGLADESH: Government Must Stop Hate Campaign against UN Independent Experts and Rights Group Odhikar
    • INDONESIA : The non-judicial settlement team for past human rights abuses and its membership’s composition contrary to the international human rights standard
    • ASIA: Addressing Reprisals on HRDs Requires Accountability and Ending Impunity
    • INDONESIA: Stop security approach in Papua Island
    • ASIA: Enforced Disappearances Continue With Zero Accountability and Blanket Impunity
    • SRI LANKA: Today is the international day of democracy
    • SRI LANKA: UN human rights experts condemn repeated use of emergency measures to crackdown on protests
    • BANGLADESH: Government Must Bear Responsibilities if Victims of Enforced Disappearances are Harmed
    • BANGLADESH: Independent Investigative Mechanism Needed for Affording Justice to Victims of Enforced Disappearances
    • ශ්‍රී ලංකා: අන්තර් විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයීය සිසුන්ට කල ප්‍රහාරය තරයේ හෙලා දකිනවා
    • PHILIPPINES: MY ARREST AND DETENTION FOR CYBERLIBEL
    • නීතිය මත පාලනය හදුන්වාදීමක්
    • SRI LANKA: Illegal arrests and illegal detentions damage the legal system
    • INDONESIA: Result of the Selection Process of Ad Hoc Judges for the Human Rights Court of 2022 for the Paniai Papua Human Rights Case
    • ශ්‍රී ලංකා: 2022 ජූලි 9 – 13 සිදු වූ විපර්යාසය
    • SRI LANKA: An emergency means nothing less than ‘legalizing lawlessness’
    • ශ්‍රී ලංකා: සාක්ෂි ගොඩයි | නඩු නෑ
    • BANGLADESH: Dissidents and Human Rights Defenders Survive Defenselessly
    • INDONESIA: Human Rights Court for Paniai Case in Papua must Apply International Human Rights Standard
    • SRI LANKA: The crisis of criminal justice in Sri Lanka
    • SRI LANKA: Malnutrition and Starvation- Next Stage of the Crisis
    • ශ්‍රී ලංකා: රටේ අනාගත දිශානතිය තීන්දු කිරීමේ සාකච්ඡාවලට ස්ත්‍රීන්ගේ සහභාගිත්වය වැඩිකරමු
    • SRI LANKA: A Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Ministry
    • SRI LANKA: A New Era Of Politics Begins In Sri Lanka
    • SRI LANKA: Journalists and Protesters Face Arrests, Assaults, and Interrogations as Government Fails to Tackle Economic Crisis
    • SRI LANKA: In Sri Lanka politics is imaginary but corruption is real
    • SRI LANKA: 22nd Amendment Bill – Fundamentals are wrong
    • SRI LANKA: Wild Politics and Brutal Policing
    • SRI LANKA: Delays In Justice As A Major Cause Of Economic & Political Catastrophe
    • ASIA: Democratic Governance Equipped with the Rule of Law Required for Ending Arbitrary Deprivation of Life
    • ASIA: Victims and Litigants Suffer in Absence of Independent Judiciary and Legal Profession
    • SRI LANKA: Two big lies told about the 1978 Constitution
    • SRI LANKA: Second-highest in child malnutrition in South Asia, says UNICEF
    • SRI LANKA: Parliamentarians’ Inability to Mourn
    • BANGLADESH: Victims of Gross Human Rights Abuses are Defenceless in Absence of Judicial Independence
    • INDONESIA: State Curbs Freedom of Expression amidst Non-stop Human Rights Violations in Papua
    • INDONESIA: New Commissioner of the National Commission on Human Rights Must Be Professional and Credible!
    • WORLD: International Conversations Needed for Removing Gaps Between UN Experts’ Recommendations and Monitoring of Actual Implementation for Protecting Human Rights
    • SRI LANKA: The intimidation of Tamil Journalist, Kumanan by the Sri Lanka Navy, and the accelerated land grab by the Navy in Mullaitivu
    • SRI LANKA: What HRCSL can do to assist SL fight debt crisis
    • NEPAL: Police is torturing a minor girl
    • SRI LANKA: Community Kitchen – A new initiative to draw attention to the growing food crisis
    • INDONESIA: 24 Years since the Student Shooting in the Trisakti case: A Human Rights Case Becomes a Political Bargain?
    • SRI LANKA: MPs Letters – A Revival Of A Very Dangerous Practice Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Share
    • SRI LANKA: People’s Uprising for System Change
    • SRI LANKA: The changing meanings of system change
    • SRI LANKA: The absence of the will to do justice
    • SRI LANKA: A simple way out of the constitutional trap
    • Sri Lanka Government’s attempt to suppress nonviolent protests demanding the resignation Of the President
    • SRI LANKA: Can Sri Lanka rise from its constitutional limbo?
    • INDONESIA: Serious Human Rights Crime Investigation at Paniai: Full of Irregularities and Considerable
    • SRI LANKA: Asian Human Rights Commission writes to the UN Secretary-General about the situation in Sri Lanka
    • SRI LANKA: Overcoming the crisis
    • INDONESIA: Police are still at the Konawe Islands Regency and residents are frightened
    • INDONESIA: Police officers in Northlubuklinggau Torture a Supect to Death
    • INDONESIA : The Gema Kreasi Perdana Company forcibly entered the land of the local community who refused mining in the Wanoii Island
    • SRI LANKA: A people’s commission for women formed in Sri Lanka
    • SRI LANKA: Suspend PTA immediately – UN Experts tells GOSL
    • SRI LANKA: UN experts call for swift suspension of Prevention of Terrorism Act and reform of counter-terrorism law
    • INDONESIA: 33 Years of Talangsari 1989: Changing Policies That Remain Unfavorable to Victims and Justice
    • SRI LANKA: The Contempt of Court Law and Practice In Sri Lanka Violates the International Law and Sri Lankan Constitution
    • INDONESIA: Withdraw police officers and stop the seizure of people’s living space in the Wadas village
    • SRI LANKA: What Is The Greater Wrong – Contempt Of Court Or Illegal Detention?
    • INDONESIA: Urging inquiry and investigation related to the death of Mede Nurlatu at the mining area of the Botak Mountain
    • SRI LANKA: Webinar – Pathway to Constitutional Reform
    • INDONESIA: Investigate and Prosecute Cases of Violence Allegedly Committed by Police Officers Against Ridwan at Nunukan Regency, North Kalimantan
    • SRI LANKA: Making a Constitution for a traumatised nation
    • SRI LANKA: Participatory Constitution-making – The essentials
    • SRI LANKA: Who should be in the constitutional convention?
    • SRI LANKA: Legal arguments against the proposal to present the draft Constitution
    • SRI LANKA: Fake constitutions create irrational societies
    • INDONESIA: Pontianak District Court Decision not serious in Judging Cases of the Destruction of the Mosque Built by Ahmadiyya
    • SRI LANKA: A Man Borrows Two Papayas To Feed His Starving Children
    • INDONESIA: Investigate the 2014 Paniai Case: The Attorney General Needs to Examine the Involvement of the TNI Commander in the Paniai Case
    • INDONESIA: Questioning the Ministry of Health for the maladministration of imposing Covid-19 treatment costs to patients
    • WORLD: Desmond Tutu: The man who revived the moral universe
    • INDONESIA: Constitutional Court Decision on the Review of the Omnibus Law Regulation: a decision that mocks the Constitution and the people
    • INDONESIA: Nineteen Civilians Shot With Rubber Bullets and Seriously Injured
    • SRI LANKA: A People’s Constitution; The Need To Think Outside The Box
    • SRI LANKA: Court order prohibiting Human Rights Day event in Kandy
    • NEPAL: THE STATE IS FAILING ITS CITIZENS
    • INDIA: A botched up counter insurgency operation and murders most foul
    • INDONESIA: Appointing the Parliament and the Military to Resolve Human Rights Violations Proves that the Chief Security Minister Failed to Understand Justice
    • SRI LANKA: Appeal to help build a house for family of disappeared
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    • End land grabbing in Cambodia
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    • Protect Fisherfolks - Stop the Killings and Land Grabbing
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    • Repeal the PTA in Sri Lanka
    • Save Rizana Nafeek
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    • Thailand State of Emergency 2010
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      • ණ‍ය බර තුලින් විනාශ වෙමින් පවතින ජන ජීවිතය
      • SRI LANKA: AHRC TV – A discussion on police reforms (in Sinhala)
      • ASIA: The link between weak criminal justice systems and torture — a video presentation
      • SRI LANKA: The speech of the United Nations Special Representative for Independence of Judiciary
      • SRI LANKA: A video interview on a new collection of Sinhala poems
      • ASIA: The AHRC will launch a weekly video roundup on human rights
      • SRI LANKA: BBC reports on torture in Sri Lanka
      • SRI LANKA: What will you do with £ 8.5 million? A short video
      • ASIA: A video documentary on the AHRC’s Folk School
      • ASIA: A conversation on the Kwangju uprising of 1980 and uprisings in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand and Indonesia recorded on video
      • SRI LANKA: A Youtube presentation of Sumanthiran MP’s speech at parliament on Rizana Nafeek and the PTA
      • SRI LANKA: Bar Association Convocation speeches available on YouTube
      • SRI LANKA: A YouTube presentation in Sinhala on how the executive presidential system destroyed the bureaucratic structure of the state
      • SRI LANKA: A YouTube presentation on how the executive presidential system destroyed the bureaucratic structure of the state
      • SRI LANKA: True independence — a YouTube presentation
      • INDIA: Protest through submersion by villagers against unfair eviction at the Omkareshwar Dam
      • SRI LANKA: Police Torture Documentary
      • PHILIPPINES: An interview with Edwin Egar
      • SRI LANKA: The Police Torture Epidemic in Sri Lanka — a documentary
      • The AHRC and RCT launches the Asian Alliance against Torture and Ill-Treatment (AAATI)
      • ASIA: Widespread torture in Asia explained in a new video production
      • SRI LANKA: Wide spread torture is only a symptom of failed policing
      • SRI LANKA: A report on 323 cases of police torture in Sri Lanka – Lecture 7
      • SRI LANKA: The death of law – Lecture 6
      • PAKISTAN: AHRC condemns the killing of Safaraz Shah, a young man shot dead in a public place by the Rangers
      • Five hundred days since the forced disappearance of Prageeth Eknaligoda – Lecture 5
      • Police shooting at Katunayake and issues of public importance – Lecture 4
      • SRI LANKA: To protect the law is to protect the nation – Lecture 3
      • How to improve the discourse of human rights between developed and less developed countries – Lecture 2
      • Defending Human Rights Defenders – Lecture 1
      • BANGLADESH: Police enjoy impunity despite torturing villagers and sexually abusing women in Dinajpur
      • BANGLADESH: Human Rights Defender FMA Razzak under threat of crossfire
      • BANGLADESH: Journalist Gias Ahmed Describes Story of Police Torture
      • SRI LANKA: Police brutally torture a man in revenge for complaining to the human rights commission
      • SRI LANKA: Appeal to save the life of a Tamil complainant in a bribery case against a police officer
      • PHILIPPINES: On Gerry Ortega: “Too painfully young for a man to go”
      • SRI LANKA: The sixth anniversary of the assassination of Gerald Perera
      • Indonesian military ill-treat and torture indigenous Papuans
      • Human Rights Day 2010
      • Remember Rizana Nafeek
      • Torture victim in Indonesia for UN International Day against Torture – June 26 2009
      • Torture victim in Sri Lanka for UN International Day against Torture – June 26 2009
      • Torture victim in Pakistan for UN International Day against Torture – June 26 2009
      • Torture victim in Thailand for UN International Day against Torture – June 26 2009
      • Torture victim in Philippines for UN International Day against Torture – June 26 2009
      • Torture victim in India for UN International Day against Torture – June 26 2009
      • Approach to transitional justice -Advocacy Forum Nepal 2
      • Approach to transitional justice -Advocacy Forum Nepal 1
      • Attack on lawyers in Sri Lanka
      • Sri Lanka: 10 UN experts comment on Sri Lanka
      • Religion and Rights (part 2)
      • Religion and Rights (part 1)
      • Recovering the authority of public institutions
      • PHILIPPINES/HONG KONG: Injured Filipino worker sought accident compensation (part 2)
      • PHILIPPINES/HONG KONG: Injured Filipino worker sought accident compensation (part 1)
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      • Launch of discussion on drafting Asian Charter on the Rule of Law
      • SRI LANKA: Dossier of Sugath Nishantha Fernando
      • SRI LANKA: Dossier of Rizana Nafeek
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      • Human Rights Under the Indonesian Criminal Procedure Code
      • INDONESIA: Universal Periodic Review Submission on the Human Rights Situation in Papua
      • PAKISTAN: Torture is endemic in the country
    • Podcasts
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      • හිමිකම් කඩවීම් ඒවාට විසඳුම් Violations of rights and their solution
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    • Joint Human Rights Reports
      • BANGLADESH: Impunity reigns for human rights violations against Santal indigenous people
  • Opinions
    • Coloumns
      • INDONESIA: For the sake of the law, the DKI Jakarta High Prosecutor’s Office must stop criminalising human rights defenders Fatia Maulidiyanti and Haris Azhar for their criticism of public officials
      • NEPAL: Joint Press Release on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
      • BANGLADESH: Arbitrary de-registration of prominent human rights group Odhikar another blow to civil society
      • INDONESIA: Release Victor Yeimo and hold perpetrators of human rights violations in Papua accountable
      • UN: Ban Abusive Bangladesh Unit from Peacekeeping
      • BANGLADESH: Stop Harassment of Human Rights Defenders
      • NEPAL: Government of Nepal must undertake immediate steps to address the core concerns of the families and victims of enforced disappearances
      • BANGLADESH: Officials Linked to Hundreds of ‘Disappearances’
      • NEPAL: Continued denial of justice for crimes relating to torture and ill-treatment – An independent mechanism needed to ensure prompt, thorough and effective investigations
      • BANGLADESH: Hold Security Forces Accountable for Torture
      • NEPAL: Joint Statement on the Occasion of the International Week of the Disappeared 2021
      • UNITED NATIONS: Stand with Bangladeshi Journalists on Press Freedom Day Free Expression Under Serious Threat
      • BANGLADESH: Independent probe needed for the death of protesters
      • BANGLADESH: ‘Golden Jubilee’ Should Be Turning Point on Human Rights
      • INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST RESPOND TO CRACKDOWN ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN BANGLADESH
      • INDONESIA: Prospek Pengungkapan Tragedi 1965
      • UNITED NATIONS: Grave Allegations Involving Visiting Bangladesh Army Chief
      • INDONESIA: Kehawatiran Saya Terhadap Masyarakat Orang Asli Papua
      • ‘They’re not music videos’: YouTube human rights news channel Just Asia struggles to make a difference
      • PAKISTAN: Country needs a public policy and legislation against dowry related abuses
    • Interviews
      • INDONESIA: Media misrepresents human rights campaign for West Papua
      • INDONESIA: Attacks on workers are attacks on democracy — labour activist
      • SRI LANKA: An interview with Dr. Navi Pillay
      • INDONESIA: “I want to go home” – a member of the Shia community in Sampang
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      • INDONESIA: A victim of enforced disappearance speaks out on government’s reluctance to provide remedies
      • PHILIPPINES: Torture victims speak out- “Under torture, I thought I was dead” Interview 12
      • PHILIPPINES: Torture victims speak out — “They tortured me by water boarding” Interview 13
      • PHILIPPINES: Torture victims speak out — “Beaten and placed in a drum full of water” Interview 11
      • PHILIPPINES: Torture victims speak out — “I don’t mind going hungry. All I need is my husband” Interview 10
      • INDONESIA: Court’s judgment on Intelligent Law reflects the state’s adherence to the rule by law
      • INDIA: The State working against Rule of law has forced this Jal Satyagraha on us
      • INDONESIA: Let the voices of Papua be heard
      • INDONESIA: Defending the right of Christians to freedom of religion
      • PAKISTAN: It would be an honour to die with my head up than to live like a coward having my eyes down, Uzma says in an interview
      • INDONESIA: No justice for victims of Semanggi I tragedy 13 years on
      • NEPAL: “A lot of the juveniles who have been subjected to torture see gloomy prospects for their future”
      • INDONESIA: Implementation of sharia law in Aceh still too sensitive an issue to be adequately addressed
      • INDONESIA: The content of the sharia district regulation must be amended
      • PHILIPPINES: Torture victims speak out–“I kept the torture I experience to myself for one year” Interview 9

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