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Extended Introduction: Urgent Appeals, theory and practice

A need for dialogue

Many people across Asia are frustrated by the widespread lack of respect for human rights in their countries. Some may be unhappy about the limitations on the freedom of expression or restrictions on privacy, while some are affected by police brutality and military killings. Many others are frustrated with the absence of rights on labour issues, the environment, gender and the like. Yet the expression of this frustration tends to stay firmly in the private sphere. People complain among friends and family and within their social circles, but often on a low profile basis. This kind of public discourse is not usually an effective measure of the situation in a country because it is so hard to monitor. Though the media may cover the issues in a broad manner they rarely broadcast the private fears and anxieties of the average person. And along with censorship – a common blight in Asia – there is also often a conscious attempt in the media to reflect a positive or at least sober mood at home, where expressions of domestic malcontent are discouraged as unfashionably unpatriotic. Talking about issues like torture is rarely encouraged in the public realm. There may also be unwritten, possibly unconscious social taboos that stop the public reflection of private grievances. Where authoritarian control is tight, sophisticated strategies are put into play by equally sophisticated media practices to keep complaints out of the public space, sometimes very subtly. In other places an inner consensus is influenced by the privileged section of a society, which can control social expression of those less fortunate. Moral and ethical qualms can also be an obstacle. In this way, causes for complaint go unaddressed, un-discussed and unresolved and oppression in its many forms, self perpetuates. For any action to arise out of private frustration, people need ways to get these issues into the public sphere.

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UPDATE (Philippines): Further witnesses in activists killing refuse to cooperate for lack of protection

Urgent Appeal Update | Philippines | | February 6, 2006

[Re: UP-158-2005: PHILIPPINES: Two more activists killed, one of whom suffered twenty-two gunshot wounds; UP-014-2006: PHILIPPINES: Office of the Ombudsman for the Military and Other Law Enforcement O...

NEPAL: Near assassination of Nepali Congress district level leader

Urgent Appeal Case | Nepal | | February 5, 2006

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the attempted assassination of a leader of the Nepali Congress and is concerned that this may be the beginni...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Transfer of the Executive Officer of Shibganj falls well short of appropriate punishment

Urgent Appeal Update | Bangladesh | | February 2, 2006

[RE: UP-013-2006: BANGLADESH: Three persons tortured by the Chapainawabganj police; UA-041-2006: BANGLADESH: Eight people killed and at least one hundred injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj dist...

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Three detained and tortured leaders have been released from prison in Chapainawabganj

Urgent Appeal Update | Bangladesh | | February 1, 2006

UPDATE (Thailand): Minister of Justice must clarify continued contradictions after verdict in Somchai Neelaphaijit case

Urgent Appeal Update | Thailand | | February 1, 2006

[RE: FA-06-2004: THAILAND: A human rights lawyer Mr. Somchai Neelaphaijit missing UP-20-2005: THAILAND: Human rights lawyer still missing after nearly one year; Action needed today to have case tran...

UPDATE (Indonesia): Three soldiers received lenient sentences while other perpetrators are still at large regarding an attack on three hamlets in South Sulawesi

Urgent Appeal Update | Indonesia | | February 1, 2006

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the attack on three hamlets, Karama, Bonto Gaddong and Ujung Moncong, in South Sulawesi by a group of ...

UPDATE (Philippines): Possible irregularities in police investigation; survivor details brutal killings of peasants

Urgent Appeal Update | Philippines | | February 1, 2006

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information from a reliable source regarding the killing of peasants in Palo, Leyte, Visayas on 21 November 2005. (Please vi...

UPDATE (Nepal): A further 600 persons arrested while engaged in peaceful demonstrations throughout Nepal

Urgent Appeal Update | Nepal | | February 1, 2006

[RE: UP-011-2006: NEPAL: Further arrests occur in Nepal’s escalating crisis; UA-036-2006: NEPAL: Further arrests in Nepal’s worsening political, security and human rights crisis; UG-002-2006: ...

UPDATE (Burma): Supreme Court summarily rejects Su Su Nwe case

Urgent Appeal Update | Burma (Myanmar) | | February 1, 2006

[RE: UA-112-2004: BURMA: Complaints against forced labour blocked and victims punished issued on 3 September 2004; UP-11-2005: BURMA: Four officials sentenced to prison for forced labour in Kawmhu Tow...

CAMBODIA: One year anniversary of Cheam Channy’s illegal imprisonment

Urgent Appeal Case | Cambodia | | January 31, 2006

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) takes the opportunity of the first anniversary of Cheam Channys imprisonment to write to you regarding the injustices of this case. Cheam Channy, a MP from t...

UPDATE (Philippines): Office of the Ombudsman for the Military and Other Law Enforcement Offices begins investigation into cases of torture, activists’ killings and concerns on witness protection

Urgent Appeal Update | Philippines | | January 31, 2006

[Re: UA-251-2005: Brutal torture of a 25-year-old man over mistaken identity in General Santos City, Mindanao; UP-156-2005: Unabated killing of activists; killing and threats against witnesses exposes...

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Urgent Appeals

Extended Introduction: Urgent Appeals, theory and practice

A need for dialogue

UPDATE (Philippines): Further witnesses in activists killing refuse to cooperate for lack of protection

NEPAL: Near assassination of Nepali Congress district level leader

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Transfer of the Executive Officer of Shibganj falls well short of appropriate punishment

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Three detained and tortured leaders have been released from prison in Chapainawabganj

UPDATE (Thailand): Minister of Justice must clarify continued contradictions after verdict in Somchai Neelaphaijit case

UPDATE (Indonesia): Three soldiers received lenient sentences while other perpetrators are still at large regarding an attack on three hamlets in South Sulawesi

UPDATE (Philippines): Possible irregularities in police investigation; survivor details brutal killings of peasants

UPDATE (Nepal): A further 600 persons arrested while engaged in peaceful demonstrations throughout Nepal

UPDATE (Burma): Supreme Court summarily rejects Su Su Nwe case

CAMBODIA: One year anniversary of Cheam Channy’s illegal imprisonment

UPDATE (Philippines): Office of the Ombudsman for the Military and Other Law Enforcement Offices begins investigation into cases of torture, activists’ killings and concerns on witness protection

BANGLADESH: Homeopathic doctor arbitrarily arrested and detained by the Detective Branch police in Dinajpur

UPDATE (Bangladesh): Three persons tortured by the Chapainawabganj police

UPDATE (Nepal): Widespread repression and mass arrests continue to take place in Nepal

BURMA: Local authorities beat villager to death

BANGLADESH: Eight people killed and at least one hundred injured by police fire in Chapainawabganj district

PHILIPPINES: Torture and forcible disappearance of a man in Batangas, Luzon

INDIA: Police constables run lower judiciary in West Bengal

BANGLADESH: Students beaten by the Rapid Action Battalion in Bagerhat

UPDATE (Philippines): Investigation required into possible police involvement in labour leader’s death

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