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INDONESIA: Summary executions recurring with impunity
Wednesday, 30 May 2018, 5:14 pm | Asian Legal Resource Centre
A Written Submission to the 38th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre More >>
BANGLADESH: Government escalates extrajudicial executions
Wednesday, 30 May 2018, 5:13 pm | Asian Legal Resource Centre
A Written Submission to the 38th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre More >>
INDIA: Mere legislation will not end custodial torture
Tuesday, 27 February 2018, 11:56 am | Asian Legal Resource Centre
A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre More >>
INDONESIA: Minority Groups Freedom of Religion
Monday, 26 February 2018, 4:14 pm | Asian Legal Resource Centre
A Written Submission to the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre INDONESIA: Minority Groups Freedom of Religion and Beliefs Remain on Paper More >>
BANGLADESH: Unbridled state power
Monday, 28 August 2017, 7:51 pm | Asian Legal Resource Centre
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to update the United Nations Human Rights Council about the situation of Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances in Bangladesh. Enforced disappearances are increasing alarmingly in Bangladesh since Mrs. Sheikh ... More >>
INDIA: Manual scavenging, the curse of a nation
Saturday, 26 August 2017, 12:11 pm | Asian Legal Resource Centre
A Written Submission to the 36th Regular Session of UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre More >>
Reengineer justice institutions to end infant malnutrition
Saturday, 11 March 2017, 8:46 pm | Asian Legal Resource Centre
An Oral Statement to the 34th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council from the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) Clustered Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteurs on Environment and Right to Food ASIA: Reengineer justice institutions ... More >>
ASIA: Invest to rebuild judicial independence
Saturday, 18 June 2016, 1:41 pm | Asian Legal Resource Centre
An Oral Statement to the 32nd Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council from the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) More >>
BANGLADESH: Continued Enforced Disappearances
Wednesday, 23 September 2015, 5:18 pm | Asian Legal Resource Centre
An Joint Oral Statement to the 30th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), FIDH, AFAD on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances More >>
BANGLADESH: Big Brother Law for NGOs on the anvi l
Saturday, 14 June 2014, 2:46 pm | Asian Legal Resource Centre
The Bangladesh government wants to quash human rights activism. The cabinet has approved the "Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulations Bill, 2014", which will likely become law soon. The Bill empowers bureaucrats to decide the fate ... More >>
PHILIPPINES: Increased attacks on urban poor
Saturday, 1 March 2014, 11:29 am | Asian Legal Resource Centre
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) draws the attention of the Human Rights Council to increasing attacks on the urban poor in Philippines, particularly in the Metro Manila region. The attacks include denial of livelihood opportunities to the urban ... More >>
BANGLADESH: Enforced disappearances increasing alarmingly
Saturday, 1 March 2014, 11:26 am | Asian Legal Resource Centre
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is gravely concerned by the ongoing pattern of deprivation of the right to life through enforced disappearance and killing in the pretext of "crossfire" in Bangladesh. Simultaneously, there are also ... More >>
India: Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Children In Confict
Wednesday, 4 September 2013, 3:25 pm | Asian Legal Resource Centre
1. India ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1992 with a declaration on Article 32. It has ratified the two Optional Protocols to the Convention, on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict on 30 November 2005 and on Sale of Children, ... More >>
Bangladesh: State Abuses UPR Process
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 4:51 pm | Asian Legal Resource Centre
Bangladesh: State Abuses UPR Process Due to Lack of Enforceability of UN Human Rights Machinery More >>
ASIA: Narrative of Justice in Sri Lanka
Saturday, 29 June 2013, 10:54 am | Asian Legal Resource Centre
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), the sister organisation of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) announces the publication of Narrative of Justice in Sri Lanka as told through the stories of torture victims. The book contains 736 pages. More >>
India: Discussion On the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act
Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 2:46 pm | Asian Legal Resource Centre
(Hong Kong, May 27, 2013) Human Rights Alert (HRA) and the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) will hold a discussion on the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) at Palais des Nations, on 29 May, 2013. The discussion will coincide with the report ... More >>
Nepal: Serious Concerns For Security of Human Rights Defence
Monday, 27 May 2013, 12:58 pm | Asian Legal Resource Centre
1. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to highlight the continuing need for closer monitoring by the Human Rights Council and the international community of the renewed threats and attacks that human rights defenders working in Nepal have ... More >>
Myanmar: Official Report On Rakhine State Conflict Flawed
Monday, 27 May 2013, 12:54 pm | Asian Legal Resource Centre
1. Following the communal violence that wracked the western parts of Myanmar near the border of Bangladesh in 2012, the country's president established a commission of inquiry comprising of retired public servants, religious figures, politicians, ... More >>
Thailand: Regularization of Crisis of Freedom of Expression
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 12:03 pm | Asian Legal Resource Centre
1. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to bring the regularization of the crisis of freedom of expression in Thailand to the attention of the Human Rights Council. This statement is the sixth on this topic that the ALRC has submitted to ... More >>
India: Domestic and International Human Rights
Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 11:35 am | Asian Legal Resource Centre
India: India's Domestic and International Human Rights Obligations Are Incompatible with the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 More >>
