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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 18, 2009 ALRC-STM-002-2009 A Statement by the Asian Legal Resource Centre ASIA: The region to benefit from the High Commissioner’s visit The Asian Legal Resource ...
(Hong Kong, March 16, 2009) The Asian Legal Resource Centre has produced a new report in the latest volume of article 2 (volume 8, No. 1) on the abuse of police powers of arrest and detention for mone...
A core element in any judicial function is impartiality. The common saying is that judges need not only to be impartial but need to be seen to be impartial. Over the centuries codes of conduct have be...
Several events which have taken place in recent weeks remind us of the deepening of the crises in the region. In Bangladesh, in The Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) 55 officers, Seven civilians including two o...
The judiciary in South Korea had made some humiliating decisions under political influence during military dictatorships in the past. Some judges who collaborated with the then-government by judging i...
Background The Human Rights Council will be addressing human rights education in its upcoming 10th session (Geneva, 2?7 March 2009). It will discuss specifically a Declaration on Human Rights Educatio...
In order to diminish the number of unemployed persons and reactivate domestic economy, the president Mr. Lee Myung-bak has made a policy to booster construction work. At the moment, about 300 areas ha...
(Hong Kong, December 22, 2007) Four separate presentations on several pressing issues have been presented by the Asian Human Rights Commission on YouTube. Contempt of court in Burma and the illegal ju...
(Hong Kong, December 17, 2007) The Asian Human Rights Commission annual publication of the Human Rights Report for 2008 on Eleven Asian countries is . The report (314 pages) covers the human rights si...
The Human Rights University Network – Sur and the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) invites all interested parties to send in their contributions for the Special Issue of the...
(Hong Kong, December 10, 2008) The message of the Asian Human Rights Commission on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is now available at YouTube. The director of the AH...
As the world marks the 60th anniversary of the on 10 December, in a report released today Reporters Without Borders looks at the record of the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, the main UN body conce...
(Hong Kong, December 8, 2008) “There is no getting away from the fact that despite 60 years being passed after the UDHR, the actual enjoyment of human rights in most countries of Asia is even mu...
The celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the UDHR is a grim reminder that even after 60 years of the adoption of this great declaration the gap between what is declared and what is actually achieved...
A massive and unlawful crackdown by the Ministry of Justice and police force took place in the Seong-Sang Furniture Factory Complex in Masok (Namyangju City, Gyounggi-Do, Korea) on November 12th, beg...
Due to its maintenance of a conscription system, South Korea’s military has long been plagued with ill-treatment, resulting in trauma and even suicide for the individuals concerned. After severa...
Two pieces of legislation have recently been submitted to South Korea’s national assembly, their purpose clearly to restrict people’s rights to . Both have been submitted by the Grand Nati...
THEME – Prosecution systems in Asia CONCEPT PAPER A well functioning judicial system is one of the cornerstones upholding the rule of law and democracy. Concerns, about the relative perceptio...
The importance of the results of the United States election on this occasion is more a reflection of the overwhelming rejection of the way in which America has been run in the recent past, particularl...
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