| 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
- Negros Island: Living in our colonial past
- Depayin 7th anniversary: When cries for justice are silenced, how can Burma's 2010 elections be free and fair?
- Burma's elections: An absence of minimum conditions
- Indonesia's 'unprofessional' police:
Interview with Answer Styannes
- Sri Lanka: 'A woman finds it difficult to go to a police station alone':
Interview with Thamara
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Sri Lanka-Impunity, Criminal Justice & Human Rights
This book makes an attempt to understand the obstacles to the realization of human rights norms in Sri Lanka, relating to the constitution, criminal justice system or local traditions. The ideas discussed in the book are the result of practical interventions by way of litigation, providing assistance to victims, and through debates conducted on these issues over a considerable time.
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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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