| Human Rights Correspondence School
This lesson will discuss the issue of arbitrary detention, which is a prevalent practice in the Asian region. It is used by state agents for various means, including instilling fear, silencing dissent, and even extortion.
The lesson will examine cases of arbitrary detention, and how they inevitably lead to further rights abuses, including torture and disappearance. The lesson will also look at various international norms and standards preventing arbitrary detention.
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Human Rights Correspondence School |
Ethics in Action
- Child labour: Hunger and child malnutrition invisible in the Philippines
- UNJUST: The mirror to see Asia
- The WISE women of Pakistan
- Tribute to murdered environmentalist Charoen Wat-aksorn
- Policing in Nepal
- The Khairlanji massacre is more than another murder story
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The State of Human Rights in Ten Asian Nations - 2009
In "The State of Human Rights in Ten Asian Nations - 2009" the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) presents analysis concerning the human rights situations, violations and developments it has encountered during its work in 2009.
The AHRC documents and launches campaigns concerning hundreds of individual cases of grave human rights abuses each year in these countries. This allow it to identify trends in human rights violations and lacuna in the protection of rights that need to be addressed.
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Publication |
Vol. 09 - No. 02 June 2010 -- Diagnoses of the NON-RULE OF LAW IN ASIA
- Reflection on article 2 of the ICCPR: The role of human rights activists in diagnosing the lack of effective remedies
- A three-part study on the crisis in institutions for administration of justice in Sri Lanka and its consequences for the realisation of human rights in Asia
- The role of the UN Human Rights Council on rule-of-law problems in Asia
- Diagnosing the un-rule of law in Burma: A submission to the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review
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