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A group of 24 persons from Cambodia, China, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Thailand gathered in Hong Kong from February 16-21, 2006, for the first consultation on the launching of the Asian Charter on the Rule of Law. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) proposed the drafting of such a charter [&...

This publication consists of a series of lessons, prepared by the Human Rights Correspondence School, a project of the AHRC, on the relationship between the rule of law and the implementation of human rights in Asia. The four lessons deal respectively with the rule of law and human rights implementation, the role of the police, […]

Since the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of people living on the Gnga-Padma embankment in Malda and Murshidabad have fallen prey to the wrath of angry rivers. Due to continuous erosion of river Padma, people in the area have been losing their agricultural lands, fleeing their homes, reeling under poverty and even starving to death… In...

Asia’s people continue to suffer from the endemic use of torture and other violent practices that deny them their basic human rights and, at the same time, an absence of the rule of law. The former flourish because of the latter. These conclusions are well documented in the book The State of Human Rights in […]

“I had the privilege of addressing about 100 Inspectors on “Investigation techniques to minimize violation of human rights” at a police training programme conducted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in early July this year. When I asked these officers their opinion of human rights, especially the aspect ...

This is the 3rd report produced on police torture and other abuses in Sri Lanka by AHRC and ALRC. The first report entitled Special Report: Torture committed by the police in Sri Lanka was published in the ALRC’s bi-monthly publication article 2, vol 1, no.4 in August 2002.  The second report entitled Second Special Report: T...

This book is only available in Simplified Chinese. The Fact Sheet is a popular reading matter systematically introducing the ICC, including Brief Introduction of the ICC, Q & A of the ICC, Ratification States of Rome Statute, meanwhile, collecting applicable basic documents for the ICC, such as Rome Statute, Rules of Procedure and Evi...

Mousumi, a teenaged girl hailed from a poor family in Narayanpur village, Kakdwip, 24-parganas. Married at her tender age of fourteen and half. At the age of seventeen, she fell prey to the wrath of her in-laws, for dowries. She was murdered, eventually. According to the definition of the United Nations – it is a […]

They may have disappeared and killed some 15 years ago, but to their families and loved ones the memories of them will live on. “Even if I get millions of rupees, I will not forget all these dreadful memories. Until today I do not permit anyone to light fireworks and organise parties at our residence […]

All attempts to improve the lives of people, particularly those who live in wretched conditions, involve two elements: protection and participation. The latter depends very much on the former. Discourses on development so far have almost always ignored the aspect of protection. The result is that talks on participation end up as rhetoric,...