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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): Court commences trial of three men due to pressure following frequent postponement

Urgent Appeal Update | Philippines | | September 8, 2005

[Re: UA-74-2005: Trial of three men yet to begin after three years; UP-78-2005: Delay in trial due to possible neglect by the court and prosecutor] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHR...

THAILAND: Illegal detention and deportation of 232 Burmese migrant workers

Urgent Appeal Case | Thailand | | September 6, 2005

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the forced deportation of 232 Burmese migrant workers from Daechapanich fishing net factory in the Khon Kaen province in ...

UPDATE (Thailand): Special call for observers to attend September 7, 8 & 9 court hearings over missing human rights lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit

Urgent Appeal Update | Thailand | | September 5, 2005

[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 (Philippines): Another human rights lawyer killed; wounded priest died while being treated at a hospital

Urgent Appeal Update | Philippines | | September 5, 2005

[RE: UA-34-2005: Killing of a labor rights activist for the Hacienda Luisita farm workers in Tarlac City; UA-30-2005: Attempt on the life of human rights advocate and his wife in Abuyog, Leyte, Philip...

NEPAL: Suspicious death of man following his being taken into custody by security forces

Urgent Appeal Case | Nepal | | September 4, 2005

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the suspicious death of a man following his being taken into custody by security forces. Chandra Bahadur Basnet, alias Ma...

INDIA: Man denied lecturer’s post due to caste based discrimination in Uttar Pradesh

Urgent Appeal Case | India | | September 4, 2005

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the discrimination of a person belonging to the Schedules Caste, vying for the post of a lec...

UPDATE (India): Delay in investigation and faulty procedures employed in examining body of unidentified man

Urgent Appeal Update | India | | September 1, 2005

(Re: UG-04-2005: INDIA: Poor condition of the Basirhat Hospital morgue represents the collapse of post mortem system in West Bengal, AG-01-2004: INDIA: AHRC letter to the President of India regarding ...

SRI LANKA: Illegal arrest and torture of a school boy by Pannala Police

Urgent Appeal Case | Sri Lanka | | August 31, 2005

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to inform you of the illegal arrest and torture of a school boy by the Pannala Police on 3 August 2005. Mohommed Lufrash was detained by t...

INDIA: Rape victim and her child auctioned for six rupees in Jharkhand

Urgent Appeal Case | India | | August 30, 2005

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from reliable sources about the rape of a young woman who was subsequently sold in a public auction on 20 August 2005 in...

UPDATE (Philippines): A 13-year-old daughter of a disappeared man in Davao City suffers trauma

Urgent Appeal Update | Philippines | | August 29, 2005

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the present condition of the family of Datu Abdullah Sabdura Salah whose forcibly disappearance was ...

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Human Rights Commission has held that Channa Prasanka had been tortured

Urgent Appeal Update | Sri Lanka | | August 29, 2005

[RE: UP-03-2005: SRI LANKA: Further threat to the life of torture victim Channa Prasanna Fernando, UP-01-2005: SRI LANKA: Police officers interdicted regarding three torture cases of Gerald Perera, La...

UPDATE (Indonesia): House of Representatives must recommend the establishment of an ad-hoc human rights court on the Trisakti/Semanggi killings in its coming plenary session

Urgent Appeal Update | Indonesia | | August 28, 2005

[RE: UA-23-2002: Sign petition for attorney general to bring justice to May 1998 riot victims; UP-81-2005: INDONESIA: Attorney General Refuses to investigate gross violations of human rights that were...

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Urgent Appeals

Extended Introduction: Urgent Appeals, theory and practice

A need for dialogue

UPDATE (Philippines): Court commences trial of three men due to pressure following frequent postponement

THAILAND: Illegal detention and deportation of 232 Burmese migrant workers

UPDATE (Thailand): Special call for observers to attend September 7, 8 & 9 court hearings over missing human rights lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit

UPDATE (Philippines): Another human rights lawyer killed; wounded priest died while being treated at a hospital

NEPAL: Suspicious death of man following his being taken into custody by security forces

INDIA: Man denied lecturer’s post due to caste based discrimination in Uttar Pradesh

UPDATE (India): Delay in investigation and faulty procedures employed in examining body of unidentified man

SRI LANKA: Illegal arrest and torture of a school boy by Pannala Police

INDIA: Rape victim and her child auctioned for six rupees in Jharkhand

UPDATE (Philippines): A 13-year-old daughter of a disappeared man in Davao City suffers trauma

UPDATE (Sri Lanka): Human Rights Commission has held that Channa Prasanka had been tortured

UPDATE (Indonesia): House of Representatives must recommend the establishment of an ad-hoc human rights court on the Trisakti/Semanggi killings in its coming plenary session

MALDIVES: Opposition party leader charged with sedition and terrorism, while protesters are arrested and detained

SRI LANKA: Rape of 14-year-old girl in Galagedara

PHILIPPINES: A man convicted and sentenced to death is now facing imminent execution

UPDATE (Philippines): Another priest wounded in latest attacks on human rights activist in Visayas

INDIA: Torture and arrest of human rights activist in Uttar Pradesh

INDIA: Denial of basic rights to village students in West Bengal

INDONESIA: Lack of effective remedies for 23-year-old torture victim

THAILAND: Grenade thrown at car of human rights defender

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