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SRI LANKA: What Is The Greater Wrong – Contempt Of Court Or Illegal Detention?
Saturday, 12 February 2022, 6:46 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
By Basil Fernando In two occasions, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) held in two separate cases decided by the Sri Lankan Supreme Court related to contempt of court that the punishment imposed by the Court amounted to disproportionate punishment ... More >>
INDONESIA: Investigate And Prosecute Cases Of Violence Allegedly Committed By Police Officers Against Ridwan
Tuesday, 1 February 2022, 8:04 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
INDONESIA: Investigate and Prosecute Cases of Violence Allegedly Committed by Police Officers Against Ridwan at Nunukan Regency, North Kalimantan The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regrets the repeated allegations of violence by security forces, ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Making A Constitution For A Traumatised Nation
Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 9:02 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
By Basil Fernando Sri Lanka, as it faces the worst crises in terms of the economy, the society, culture and the legal and moral norms on which the society exists, is today a highly traumatised nation. All the norms of a civilised society are in the ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Participatory Constitution-making - The Essentials
Saturday, 22 January 2022, 6:36 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
By Basil Fernando Today, there is a consensus that Sri Lanka has entered into a period of crisis that is worse than it has ever faced in recent history. It is also agreed among most of the people who are highly knowledgeable in the field of economics ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Who Should Be In The Constitutional Convention?
Friday, 21 January 2022, 3:36 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The making of a new Constitution through a constitutional convention is now being discussed in the community. This is against the privately-drafted Constitution through a group of lawyers which the Government intends to introduce in early 2022. The difference ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Legal Arguments Against The Proposal To Present The Draft Constitution
Friday, 14 January 2022, 7:55 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The basic legal argument against the proposal to present the draft Constitution is as follows; The proposal is based on a false premise as it denies the process of the making of the Constitution whereas it must provide everyone and every group ... More >>
INDONESIA: Pontianak District Court Decision Not Serious In Judging Cases Of The Destruction Of The Ahmadiyya's Mosque
Tuesday, 11 January 2022, 6:47 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
In the case of the destruction of the Miftahul Huda Mosque, a total of 22 defendants were involved. On Thursday, January 6, 2022, the Pontianak District Court held a hearing with the agenda of a verdict against 21 defendants in the case of the destruction ... More >>
INDONESIA: Investigate The 2014 Paniai Case
Tuesday, 4 January 2022, 6:34 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
INDONESIA: Investigate the 2014 Paniai Case: The Attorney General Needs to Examine the Involvement of the TNI Commander in the Paniai Case The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) supports the Commission for the Disappearances and Victim of Violence (KontraS) ... More >>
SRI LANKA: A People’s Constitution; The Need To Think Outside The Box
Tuesday, 14 December 2021, 7:38 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
By Basil Fernando The discussion on the making of a new constitution through an intensely participatory process, as against underhand methods, is now on. These are a few thoughts as a response to some questions that are being discussed. In dealing ... More >>
Nepal: The State Is Failing Its Citizens
Saturday, 11 December 2021, 7:17 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the occasion of the 73rd International Human Rights Day Nepal underwent its third cycle of the UN Human Rights Council’s Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva in January 2021. Nepal has ratified over 24 various ... More >>
INDIA: A Botched Up Counter Insurgency Operation And Murders Most Foul
Friday, 10 December 2021, 7:34 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
Fifteen people including one soldier were killed in Mon district of the North Eastern state of Nagaland in India in what the security forces are calling a botched up operation that unfolded in several batches. Though the details of the botched up encounter ... More >>
A Statement By The Asian Human Rights Commission On Indonesia's Revision Of The Prosecutor's Law
Wednesday, 1 December 2021, 6:52 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
November 30, 2021 INDONESIA: Increasing Authority of the Prosecutor's Office in the Revision of the Prosecutor's Law is in fact a Breaking of the Law The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) supports the Commission for the Disappearances and Victims ... More >>
Nepal: Long March To Justice
Thursday, 21 October 2021, 6:52 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
A group of 14 persons mostly women, arrived in Kathmandu from the Nepalgunj District. They walked all the way which is almost over 500 kilometres. The group started their long march for justice on 14 September 2021. After being denied justice by the local ... More >>
INDIA: Annual Mystery fever returns to kill dozens
Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 3:38 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
Mystery fevers are no strangers to many states in India. They keep returning, almost annually, leaving a death toll behind. They make news with their onset, media follows the trails, deaths subside and then the trails go cold. Other than this almost orchestrated ... More >>
WORLD: Measuring the impact of advocacy programmes
Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 3:27 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
BY Basil Fernando “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche The word advocacy is used for various purposes and in each case, there is a different connotation attached to it. Commercial advertisements advocate the ... More >>
SRI LANKA: How Can Unscrupulous Lawyers Manipulate Delays In The Law?
Thursday, 27 February 2020, 7:01 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
By Basil Fernando This article is about the manner in which unscrupulous lawyers could manipulate delays in the law to their personal advantage. This type of behavior is now a permanent feature in Sri Lanka’s legal system. Analysis of the methods ... More >>
PAKISTAN: Activist languishing in jail
Friday, 29 November 2019, 4:48 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
One month since Professor Muhammad Ismail was arbitrarily detained, he is still languishing in prison on trumped-up charges of ‘hate speech’, ‘spreading false information’ and ‘cyberterrorism’. CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance ... More >>
INDIA: Fighting Supremacist Majoritarianism a must
Friday, 22 March 2019, 9:24 am | Asian Human Rights Commission
The world is celebrating the 53rd International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today, on March 21. Sadly, the day marks an ironic, melancholic moment in India. Often referred to as the largest democracy in the world, India is now witnessing ... More >>
Sympathies to the victims of the massacre in New Zealand
Tuesday, 19 March 2019, 2:06 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) extends its deepest sympathies to the victims of the massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand. We urge all the governments and the people of the world to support New Zealand’s efforts to deal with the situation ... More >>
INDIA: Flawed and divisive Citizenship Bill
Thursday, 10 January 2019, 5:19 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
With reports of violence over the passage of the flawed Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha across all seven states in the region, India’s North East is on the boil. The Bill, notwithstanding its confusing use of the word immigrants for ... More >>
