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A Joint Press Release by ACAT-France and the Asian Legal Resource Centre

Asian Human Rights Commission:

About AHRC: The Asian Human Rights Commission is a regional non-governmental organisation monitoring and lobbying human rights issues in Asia. The Hong Kong-based group was founded in 1984

We, the undersigned international human rights organizations, are concerned that the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) has yet to take the necessary steps to ensure that the process of drafting the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) is transparent and fully consultative with civil society organizations in the ASEAN region.

In a joint statement released on April 8th (full text below), over 130 local, national and regional civil society organizations across the ASEAN region called on AICHR to implement the following steps:

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February 27, 2012
ALRC-CWS-19-09-2012

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Nineteenth session, Agenda Item 4, General Debate

A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status

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February 22, 2012
ALRC-CWS-19-06-2012

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Nineteenth session, Agenda Item 3, interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to food

A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status

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February 20, 2012
ALRC-CWS-19-04-2012

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Nineteenth session, Agenda Item 3, interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief

A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status

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November 22, 2011
ALRC-OLT-008-2011

A Joint Open Letter signed by NGOs from around the world to the UN Human Rights Council

To: Member States of the United Nations Human Rights Council

Your Excellency,

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November 22, 2011
ALRC-OLT-007-2011

A Joint Open Letter produced by NGOs from around the world to the UN General Assembly

November 21, 2011
To: All Member States of the UN General Assembly

Dear Ambassador,

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A Joint Open Letter produced by NGOs from around the world to the UN General Assembly

October 20, 2011

To: All Member States of the UN General Assembly

Dear Ambassador,

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A Joint Open Letter produced by NGOs from around the world to the 18th Human Rights Council

To Permanent Representatives of all member states of the UN Human Rights Council

Geneva, 14 September 2011,

Excellency,

Asian Human Rights Commission:

About AHRC: The Asian Human Rights Commission is a regional non-governmental organisation monitoring and lobbying human rights issues in Asia. The Hong Kong-based group was founded in 1984

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ALRC-CWS-18-02-2011

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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Eighteenth session, Agenda Item 4, General Debate

A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status

ALRC-CWS-18-01-2011

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Eighteenth session, Agenda Item 4, General Debate

A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status

Background:

Why hunger speaks the language of death in Madhya Pradesh?

An Oral Statement to the 16th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organization in general consultative status

The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) welcomes the report and work of the Special Rapporteur on Myanmar. We deplore the authorities' ongoing, unjustifiable obstruction of a country visit since February 2010.

The ALRC continues to document numerous cases of arbitrary detention, torture, forced disappearance, and the demented use of courts to arbitrarily sentence persons without any rational, legal

ALRC-CWS-16-15-2011

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

Sixteenth session, Agenda Item 3, Interactive Dialogue with the SR on Torture

A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status

In the South Asian sub region, the widespread use of torture remains the central deficit for the realisation of a rule of law framework. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) has documented hundreds of cases of torture that show that torture is not merely practiced

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March 2, 2011

ALRC-CWS-16-12-2011

Language(s): English only

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

Sixteenth session, Agenda Item 4, Interactive Dialogue with the SR on Myanmar

A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status

MYANMAR: The problem of a U.N. member state disconnected from a normative framework: Myanmar and the Human Rights Council review

1. In a separate submission to this session of the Human Rights Council, the Asian Legal Resource Centre has analyzed

ALRC-STM-004-2011

A Joint Statement by numerous NGOs from around the world, including the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC)

As nongovernmental organizations from all regions of the world working in the field of human rights, we call upon the United Nations General Assembly to immediately suspend the rights of membership of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC).

The General Assembly contemplated the possibility that suspension of a member's rights in the Human Rights Council

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ALRC-CWS-16-09-2011

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

Sixteenth session, Agenda Item 3, Interactive Dialogue with the SR on HR defenders

A joint written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status, with Women's Rehabilitation Center (WOREC) Nepal

The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is submitting this statement as a joint statement with leading Nepalese organisation, the Women's Rehabilitation Center (WOREC) Nepal. The findings in this submission are based on WOREC's extensive work in favour of women's

In 2010, Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) continued to be under serious threat due to their work in the South Asian sub-region. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) witnessed intensified attacks on HRDs in Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, including criminal intimidation from state and non-state actors, physical abuse including torture, and the registering of false charges.

The unwillingness of governments in the region to protect, promote and fulfil human rights is illustrated by insecure working environment for HRDs of human rights defenders in these states.

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

Sixteenth session, Agenda Item 4, General Debate

A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status

INDONESIA: Widespread impunity in Papua aggravating tensions

The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is seriously concerned by ongoing, widespread human rights violations and violent acts being committed by the Indonesian security forces in the Papuan highlands in Indonesia. Impunity typically accompanies even the most serious

ALRC-CWS-16-04-2011

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Sixteenth session, Agenda Item 3, Interactive Dialogue with the SR on HR defenders

A joint written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status with the support of WOREC, FEDO and JMC

The following statement is being submitted to inform the debate of the Human Rights Council concerning human rights defenders in Nepal, by the Asian Legal Resource Centre, with the support of the Women's Rehabilitation Center (WOREC), the Feminist Dalit Organisation