| Conversations in a Failing State
To the total stranger, Sri Lanka is no more than the modern name of an erstwhile British colony called Ceylon. Ceylon then would suggest a key export, tea. But between the story of a colony and its reputation as producer of world class tea, there is much to be said about a continually beleaguered present and its emergence from an equally beleaguered past. "Conversations in a Failing State" is Patrick Lawrence’s attempt at using the past as mirror to the present...
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HR Correspondence School
This lesson looks at the UN Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law.
Among the elements making up effective reparation are compensation, judicial sanctions and public acknowledgment of the violation
suffered. The lesson also briefly examines the situation in Asia, where reparation for human rights abuse is far from satisfactory. and more...
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Focus:
Prosecutions in Asia
-Public prosecuting in Cambodia
-Prosecution in the Philippines
-The Kafkan metamorphosis of Sri Lanka’s Attorney General
-The disposable prosecutors of Bangladesh
-Criminal justice in Nepal
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HR Solidarity
The case of Gerald Mervyn Perera
Anti-Torture law maintains impunity in Sri Lanka
ALSO:
-When Two and Two Equals Five
-Accused Policemen are set Free
-Torture most horrible
-Conversations in a Failing State
and more...
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HR Solidarity
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