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:
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
