Special Reports

Launch of discussion on drafting Asian Charter on the Rule of Law

The AHRC held its advanced human rights study programme from October 9-14, 2005 in Hong Kong, at which participants from 10 nationalities participated. To mark this occasion, the AHRC is launching a series of discussions aimed at drafting an Asian Charter on Rule of Law. With a view to drafting an Asian Charter on the […]

SRI LANKA: Dossier of Sugath Nishantha Fernando

Sugath Nishantha Fernando – Death of Justice

SRI LANKA: Dossier of Rizana Nafeek

SRI LANKA: Cases of torture and ill treatment recorded from 2006-2010

Complaints relating to torture and ill treatment recorded and published by the Asian Human Rights Commission from 2006-2010 through its Urgent Appeals Programme.

Human Rights Under the Indonesian Criminal Procedure Code

With the fall of Suharto, the following Reformasi period and the requirements of international norms, the Criminal Procedure Code (KUHAP) is no longer believed as adequate for a modern Indonesia. Indonesia has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or […]

INDONESIA: Universal Periodic Review Submission on the Human Rights Situation in Papua

This stakeholders’ report is a joint submission of the above-mentioned organizations. The report highlights key concerns related to the Human Rights situation in Papua in the following areas: torture; freedom of expression; human rights defenders; extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; Indigenous Peoples, and women. The term Papua refers to the Province of West Papua and […]

PAKISTAN: Torture is endemic in the country

A Special Report on the Occasion of the UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims – June 26, 2010. Amid the demonstration of the most cruel form of torture by the police, armed forces, the intelligence agencies and paramilitary forces during the last year, from July 2009 to June this year, the government of […]