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    • INDONESIA: Crackdown on protests, stifling of expression and repression in Papua continues in Prabowo’s first four months in power
    • PAKISTAN: Government criminalises activists, increases online controls and cracks down on protests by the opposition and ethnic groups
    • SRI LANKA: Victor Ivan: A man who has left a permanent imprint by way of his critique of the judicial system in Sri Lanka
    • How to Educate the Parliamentarians on Justice Reforms
    • The Test of Effective Bribery and Corruption Control Investigations
    • A letter to the Honorable President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka on needed Justice Reforms
    • Human Rights Day: A challenge to the conscience of the international human rights community
    • MYANMAR/BURMA: International conference calls for global action to address worsening humanitarian crisis and the prospects for peace with justice in Myanmar
    • SRI LANKA: Thinking with colors: Young persons kidnapped and killed inside a navy camp in Sri Lanka
    • ASIA: Civic Space – lessons learnt from three Asian countries – Myanmar, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
    • SRI LANKA: The most important step in the fight against corruption
    • SRI LANKA: Election Result 2024 – An Opportunity for Democracy
    • ශ්‍රී ලංකාවඃ 2024 මැතිවරණ ප්‍රතිපලය
    • INDONESIA: A finding report on the allegation of brutality of the authorities in the peaceful public protest on 22 August, 2024
    • INDONESIA: Stop Police brutality against the democratic Indonesian masses
    • BANGLADESH: Moment of hope and a new beginning for Bangladesh
    • SRI LANKA: Respect the decision of the Supreme Court: The Honourable Speaker is not infallible
    • INDONESIA: Condemns the Shooting of Human Rights Defender Mr. Yan Christian Warinussy
    • ශ්‍රීලංකා: ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ අතුරු නියෝගයෙන් පසු පොලිස් නායකත්වයේ ඇති විය යුතු වෙනස
    • BANGLADESH: Stop judicial harassment of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus
    • WORLD: An Appreciation of Sister Marya Zaborowski
    • INDONESIA: Initial Findings from the Investigation of AM’s Alleged Torture: Urging Police Professionalism, Transparency and Accountability in Revealing the Truth of the Case
    • INDONESIA: Torture is still big homework for Indonesia
    • SRI LANKA: The response of Judicial Service Association of Sri Lanka to the statement made by the Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe on 19th of June
    • INDONESIA: CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM DISRUPTED, PROTESTS STIFLED AND REPRESSION IN PAPUA CONTINUES DESPITE UN REVIEW
    • NEPAL: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS, MEDIA GROUP CHAIR TARGETED TO SILENCE DISSENT WHILE PROTESTS DISRUPTED
    • SRI LANKA: A recording of a group discussion on ways to deal with the challenges to system change caused by a bad constitution
    • NEPAL: Personal vendetta against the media
    • SRI LANKA: Economic, governmental, legal: not three crises but one (Part 02)
    • SRI LANKA: Economic, governmental, legal: not three crises but one
    • PAKISTAN: ACTIVISTS AND JOURNALISTS TARGETED, INCREASED CONTROLS ON ONLINE EXPRESSION AND CRACKDOWN ON PROTESTS
    • SRI LANKA: Prosecuting crimes requires a system change
    • INDONESIA: Case of bullying and the forced dispersal of rosary prayer activities in Tangerang: Stop intolerant behaviour and investigate the perpetrators thoroughly
    • SRI LANKA: System Change Peramuna launch
    • INDONESIA: UN Human Rights Committee highlights serious human rights violations in Indonesia – the Indonesian Government must stop the chain of impunity
    • SRI LANKA: On the issue of the failure to obtain justice for the victims of the Easter Sunday Massacre on the 21st of April 2019
    • INDONESIA: The legal process for perpetrators of torture is certainly not enough, hence, totally evaluate all apparatus deployments and end the security approach in the land of Papua
    • PAKISTAN: NEW GOVERNMENT CONTINUES BLOCKING THE INTERNET AND PERSECUTING JOURNALISTS AND ACTIVISTS
    • INDONESIA: Refuse honour and bring criminal generals to justice
    • ශ්‍රී ලංකා: තත්කාලීන ලාංකීය සමාජය තුල වදහිසා විරෝධී පනත හා ජීවිතයට ඇති අයිතිය ස්ථානගත කිරීම
    • SRI LANKA: Truth Without Hurt
    • SRI LANKA: Sharing basic documents relating to the issue of Rule under Section 42(2) of the Judicature Act by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka against Mr. Nagananda Kodituwakku Attorney-at-law on 29th February 2024
    • SRI LANKA: AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO STIFLE PROTESTS, HARASS ACTIVISTS AND PUSH REPRESSIVE LAWS
    • INDONESIA: Shrinking of public space on expression, association and peaceful assembly 
    • INDONESIA: Acquittal verdict of Haris and Fatia is a victory for the freedom of expression
    • INDONESIA: Emergency Protection for Human Rights Defenders
    • INDONESIA: The Indictment of Haris Azhar and Fatia Maulidiyanti Denounces the Right to Freedom of Expression and Opinion
    • INDONESIA: Rumah Warga di kawasan Simogunung Surabaya bukan Rumah Dinas TNI Aangkatan Udara
    • SRI LANKA: IMF observations on an Independent Prosecution office for Sri Lanka
    • SRI LANKA: If Tocqueville was to read our proposed Anti-Terrorism Act
    • SRI LANKA: Imprisonment of 5 Years for Non-Arrest of A Suspect – A Good Example to Emulate
    • BANGLADESH: ADN Condemns Unjust Imprisonment of Bangladeshi HRDs Adilur Rahman and Nasiruddin Elan
    • INDONESIA: Stop violence and protect Rempang residents’ rights
    • INDONESIA: Presidential Security Detail (Paspampres) personnel kidnapped and tortured to death a young man
    • SRI LANKA: The Bar Association is held to be a Public Authority under the RTI Act
    • ASIA: The mind of Junious (A Parable)
    • SRI LANKA: The Contempt of a Court, Tribunal or Institution Bill  is Unconstitutional and  Scandalizing Court is an archaic law
    • INDONESIA: Stop violence and prosecute the perpetrators who attacked peaceful protesters in Padang West Sumatera
    • SRI LANKA: Contempt of court law should not be used to create a chilling effect on lawyers and litigants
    • තරිඳු උඩුවරගෙදර අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමට අදාළ මහා ප්‍රශ්නය
    • SRI LANKA: How loud can you talk in a court proceeding?
    • SRI LANKA: The Arrest of Tharindu Uduwaragedera – Larger questions
    • SRI LANKA: Is contempt of court unlike any other crime?
    • SRI LANKA: The plantation workers walk for “tracing our roots to win our rights”
    • SRI LANKA: Beneath the skin deep liberalism lies cancerous caste prejudices
    • SRI LANKA: Does the proposed contempt of court Bill amount to 23rd amendment to the constitution?
    • SRI LANKA: The caste-based culture is still the key obstacle for development in Sri Lanka
    • INDONESIA : Kronologis Singkat Konflik Agraria Atara Tni AU Dengan  Warga Desa Sukamulya Rumpin Bogor 
    • SRI LANKA: 202nd commemorative edition of SOCIAL JUSTICE – Sri Lanka is out
    • INDONESIA: The Prosecutor of the Haris and Fatia Case Behaves Like Luhut Binsar Panjaitan’s Attorney (LBP) and Restricts Trial Access  in  the East Jakarta District Court
    • SRI LANKA: Lord of the Flies Sri Lankan version Strange experiment: Making a good society through bad laws.
    • INDONESIA: An amicus curiae brief on the case of Mr. Haris Azhar dan Ms. Fatia Maulidiyanti
    • INDONESIA: Stop and Investigate Repression and Intimidation Against Civilians During the ASEAN Summit
    • ශ්‍රී ලංකා: නීතිය මත පාලනය හා ප්‍රතිත්‍රස්ථවාදී පනත් කෙටුම්පත
    • INDONESIA: Pembatasan Acces to Justice Keluarga korban Kanjuruhan bentuk ketidakseriusan Negara dalam penegakan Hukum dan HAM secara berkeadilan
    • INDONESIA: The Second Trial of Mr. Haris Azhar and Ms. Fatia Maulidiyanti, the Prosecutor’s Indictment with Formal Defects and the Lack of Objectivity of the Law Enforcement
    • SRI LANKA: Cannot even give an egg for my children  – The Voices of the Hungry
    • INDONESIA: Ensuring effective remedy for Mr. Muhamad Fikry, a victim of torture and an unfair trial
    • ශ්‍රී ලංකා: තීරණාත්මක ජයග්‍රහණයක් : සියල්ල වීඩියෝ කරනවා : සැකකරුවන් ඝාතනය ගැන පොලිස්පති ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට දුන් මාර්ගෝපදේශ මාලාව
    • SRI LANKA: The proposed Anti-Terrorism Bill amounts to a parallel Constitution and a Criminal Procedure Code
    • SRI LANKA: Best of Laws and the Worst of Law Enforcement – The IMF and the IGP
    • ශ්‍රී ලංකා: ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදල හා දූෂණ මර්ධනය
    • SRI LANKA: The criteria for the selection of the new Inspector General of Police
    • NEPAL: A statement on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023
    • INDONESIA: The police must immediately stop the investigation and prosecution of three human rights defenders
    • SRI LANKA: AHRC condemns the murder of Nimal Amarasiri caused by misuse of teargas on peaceful protesters
    • SRI LANKA: Few Reflections on the Sri Lanka’s Independence Day
    • INDONESIA: A Papuan journalist faced terror and intimidation due to a loud explosion
    • INDONESIA: Waiting for the follow-up on the State’s regret and acknowledgment of 12 past cases of serious human rights violations
    • SRI LANKA: Two decisions that expose the utter collapse of rule of law
    • INDONESIA: Monitoring and Investigation of the Kanjuruhan Stadium Case
    • Indonesia: The Government must seriously consider that the enactment of the RKUHP leaves serious problems
    • NEPAL: Ensure dignity, freedom, and justice for all
    • SRI LANKA: POLICE ON TRIAL: Exercising Authority without Accountability
    • SRI LANKA: Peaceful Protesters Face Attacks, Reprisals, and Arbitrary Detention
    • INDONESIA: A university student in North Halmahera allegedly tortured after express his opinion on WhatsApp status
    • BANGLADESH: Government Must Stop Hate Campaign against UN Independent Experts and Rights Group Odhikar
    • INDONESIA : The non-judicial settlement team for past human rights abuses and its membership’s composition contrary to the international human rights standard
    • ASIA: Addressing Reprisals on HRDs Requires Accountability and Ending Impunity
    • INDONESIA: Stop security approach in Papua Island
  • Countries
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    • Abadilla 5
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    • Contempt of court in Sri Lanka
    • Disbarred Lawyers
    • End land grabbing in Cambodia
    • End Violence in West Papua
    • Flood in Pakistan
    • Free Ma Sandar
    • Irom Sharmila's Unending Hunger Strike
    • Justice for Adhikari Couple
    • Maguindanao Massacre
    • Maina Sunuwar
    • Munir Said Thalib
    • No Torture
    • Phyo Wai Aung
    • Protect Fisherfolks - Stop the Killings and Land Grabbing
    • Protect Land and Forest from POSCO
    • Repeal the PTA in Sri Lanka
    • Save Rizana Nafeek
    • Somchai Neelaphaijit
    • Stop Custodial Deaths in Sri Lanka
    • Stop Disappearances in Pakistan
    • Stop extra-judicial killings in the Philippines
    • Thailand State of Emergency 2010
  • Resources
    • Human Rights Reports
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      • 2007 monks’ protests against military regime in Burma
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      • The 2019 UN report on children deprived of liberty
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      • SRI LANKA: AHRC TV – A discussion on police reforms (in Sinhala)
      • ASIA: The link between weak criminal justice systems and torture — a video presentation
      • SRI LANKA: The speech of the United Nations Special Representative for Independence of Judiciary
      • SRI LANKA: A video interview on a new collection of Sinhala poems
      • ASIA: The AHRC will launch a weekly video roundup on human rights
      • SRI LANKA: BBC reports on torture in Sri Lanka
      • SRI LANKA: What will you do with £ 8.5 million? A short video
      • ASIA: A video documentary on the AHRC’s Folk School
      • ASIA: A conversation on the Kwangju uprising of 1980 and uprisings in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand and Indonesia recorded on video
      • SRI LANKA: A Youtube presentation of Sumanthiran MP’s speech at parliament on Rizana Nafeek and the PTA
      • SRI LANKA: Bar Association Convocation speeches available on YouTube
      • SRI LANKA: A YouTube presentation in Sinhala on how the executive presidential system destroyed the bureaucratic structure of the state
      • SRI LANKA: A YouTube presentation on how the executive presidential system destroyed the bureaucratic structure of the state
      • SRI LANKA: True independence — a YouTube presentation
      • INDIA: Protest through submersion by villagers against unfair eviction at the Omkareshwar Dam
      • SRI LANKA: Police Torture Documentary
      • PHILIPPINES: An interview with Edwin Egar
      • SRI LANKA: The Police Torture Epidemic in Sri Lanka — a documentary
      • The AHRC and RCT launches the Asian Alliance against Torture and Ill-Treatment (AAATI)
      • ASIA: Widespread torture in Asia explained in a new video production
      • SRI LANKA: Wide spread torture is only a symptom of failed policing
      • SRI LANKA: A report on 323 cases of police torture in Sri Lanka – Lecture 7
      • SRI LANKA: The death of law – Lecture 6
      • PAKISTAN: AHRC condemns the killing of Safaraz Shah, a young man shot dead in a public place by the Rangers
      • Five hundred days since the forced disappearance of Prageeth Eknaligoda – Lecture 5
      • Police shooting at Katunayake and issues of public importance – Lecture 4
      • SRI LANKA: To protect the law is to protect the nation – Lecture 3
      • How to improve the discourse of human rights between developed and less developed countries – Lecture 2
      • Defending Human Rights Defenders – Lecture 1
      • BANGLADESH: Police enjoy impunity despite torturing villagers and sexually abusing women in Dinajpur
      • BANGLADESH: Human Rights Defender FMA Razzak under threat of crossfire
      • BANGLADESH: Journalist Gias Ahmed Describes Story of Police Torture
      • SRI LANKA: Police brutally torture a man in revenge for complaining to the human rights commission
      • SRI LANKA: Appeal to save the life of a Tamil complainant in a bribery case against a police officer
      • PHILIPPINES: On Gerry Ortega: “Too painfully young for a man to go”
      • SRI LANKA: The sixth anniversary of the assassination of Gerald Perera
      • Indonesian military ill-treat and torture indigenous Papuans
      • Human Rights Day 2010
      • Remember Rizana Nafeek
      • Torture victim in Indonesia for UN International Day against Torture – June 26 2009
      • Torture victim in Sri Lanka for UN International Day against Torture – June 26 2009
      • Torture victim in Pakistan for UN International Day against Torture – June 26 2009
      • Torture victim in Thailand for UN International Day against Torture – June 26 2009
      • Torture victim in Philippines for UN International Day against Torture – June 26 2009
      • Torture victim in India for UN International Day against Torture – June 26 2009
      • Approach to transitional justice -Advocacy Forum Nepal 2
      • Approach to transitional justice -Advocacy Forum Nepal 1
      • Attack on lawyers in Sri Lanka
      • Sri Lanka: 10 UN experts comment on Sri Lanka
      • Religion and Rights (part 2)
      • Religion and Rights (part 1)
      • Recovering the authority of public institutions
      • PHILIPPINES/HONG KONG: Injured Filipino worker sought accident compensation (part 2)
      • PHILIPPINES/HONG KONG: Injured Filipino worker sought accident compensation (part 1)
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      • Launch of discussion on drafting Asian Charter on the Rule of Law
      • SRI LANKA: Dossier of Sugath Nishantha Fernando
      • SRI LANKA: Dossier of Rizana Nafeek
      • SRI LANKA: Cases of torture and ill treatment recorded from 2006-2010
      • Human Rights Under the Indonesian Criminal Procedure Code
      • INDONESIA: Universal Periodic Review Submission on the Human Rights Situation in Papua
      • PAKISTAN: Torture is endemic in the country
    • Podcasts
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      • හිමිකම් කඩවීම් ඒවාට විසඳුම් Violations of rights and their solution
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      • BANGLADESH: Impunity reigns for human rights violations against Santal indigenous people
  • Opinions
    • Coloumns
      • NEPAL: Activists and online critics arrested to stifle dissent as journalists remain at risk
      • INDONESIA: Suppression of protests and crackdown on activism in Papua persisted ahead of President Prabowo’s inauguration
      • PAKISTAN: Authorities continue to silence dissent with crackdown on Baloch and other activists, protesters and journalists
      • SRI LANKA: AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO TARGET ACTIVISTS, STIFLE PROTESTS AND SILENCE JOURNALISTS, AS ELECTIONS DRAW NEAR
      • BANGLADESH: Government must implement civic space recommendations from the Human Rights Council
      • BANGLADESH: States must call out violations of civic freedoms at upcoming UN review
      • BANGLADESH: Government must cease enforced disappearances, stop harassment of the victims’ families and hold perpetrators accountable
      • BANGLADESH: End Political Prosecution of Rights Leaders 
      • BANGLADESH: Opposition face arbitrary arrests and excessive use of force around protests
      •  BANGLADESH: Accountability is a must for ending torture and impunity
      • BANGLADESH: Government must investigate all cases of enforced disappearance, stop acts of retaliation, hold perpetrators accountable, and ensure the security of victims’ families 
      • BANGLADESH: Stop Targeting Odhikar and Its Leadership
      • SOME ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASPECTS IN THE SPITIRUALITY OF ST JOHN BAPTIST DE LA SALLE
      • INDONESIA: For the sake of the law, the DKI Jakarta High Prosecutor’s Office must stop criminalising human rights defenders Fatia Maulidiyanti and Haris Azhar for their criticism of public officials
      • NEPAL: Joint Press Release on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
      • BANGLADESH: Arbitrary de-registration of prominent human rights group Odhikar another blow to civil society
      • INDONESIA: Release Victor Yeimo and hold perpetrators of human rights violations in Papua accountable
      • UN: Ban Abusive Bangladesh Unit from Peacekeeping
      • BANGLADESH: Stop Harassment of Human Rights Defenders
      • NEPAL: Government of Nepal must undertake immediate steps to address the core concerns of the families and victims of enforced disappearances
    • Interviews
      • INDONESIA: Media misrepresents human rights campaign for West Papua
      • INDONESIA: Attacks on workers are attacks on democracy — labour activist
      • SRI LANKA: An interview with Dr. Navi Pillay
      • INDONESIA: “I want to go home” – a member of the Shia community in Sampang
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      • INDONESIA: A victim of enforced disappearance speaks out on government’s reluctance to provide remedies
      • PHILIPPINES: Torture victims speak out- “Under torture, I thought I was dead” Interview 12
      • PHILIPPINES: Torture victims speak out — “They tortured me by water boarding” Interview 13
      • PHILIPPINES: Torture victims speak out — “Beaten and placed in a drum full of water” Interview 11
      • PHILIPPINES: Torture victims speak out — “I don’t mind going hungry. All I need is my husband” Interview 10
      • INDONESIA: Court’s judgment on Intelligent Law reflects the state’s adherence to the rule by law
      • INDIA: The State working against Rule of law has forced this Jal Satyagraha on us
      • INDONESIA: Let the voices of Papua be heard
      • INDONESIA: Defending the right of Christians to freedom of religion
      • PAKISTAN: It would be an honour to die with my head up than to live like a coward having my eyes down, Uzma says in an interview
      • INDONESIA: No justice for victims of Semanggi I tragedy 13 years on
      • NEPAL: “A lot of the juveniles who have been subjected to torture see gloomy prospects for their future”
      • INDONESIA: Implementation of sharia law in Aceh still too sensitive an issue to be adequately addressed
      • INDONESIA: The content of the sharia district regulation must be amended
      • PHILIPPINES: Torture victims speak out–“I kept the torture I experience to myself for one year” Interview 9

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