Published in The Ground Views on Jan. 06 :: Photo courtesy The Malaysian Insider You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.James Madison, 4th President of America…
Date: 23 November 2014 Venue:Kathmandu, Nepal B. Skanthakumar providing the Introduction to the Panel Discussion Country perspectives on the status of right to housing and protection against arbitrary evictions Dr. Asadhulla Ibrahim from Afghanistan speaking at the SAHR Panel Discussion…
Unicef urges nations to take urgent action Published in The Daily Star on Nov. 21 :: As the world yesterday observed the 25th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Unicef underscored the need for…
Published in the Pakistan Christian Post on Nov. 19 :: In her opening address at the Asia Pacific Civil Society Forum on Beijing+20, being held in Bangkok, Kate Lappin, Regional Coordinator, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional human rights organisation, meeting at Kathmandu is committed to promoting and protecting human rights, peace, democracy and justice in all countries of this region. We believe that the situation of human…
Published in The News on Sep. 29 By Meeran Karim :: Human rights groups are calling on the government of Pakistan to honour commitments made to the international community including the European Union in 2013 and formally re-announce the…
The Lawyers Collective in Sri Lanka issued a statement Saturday, condemning the violence unleashed on civil protesters and the killing of a number of the same. The statement called on the Government of Sri Lanka to control its armed forces whilst strongly condemning the Government’s continuous ferocity against peaceful protesters.
‘The Government has displayed total disrespect to the constitutional guarantees on civil liberties of its own citizens. Evidence clearly establishes that deplorable levels of force including live bullets were used on the unarmed villagers. The assailants also assaulted journalists and grabbed their cameras by force when they were doing their job covering the event. Lawyers Collective urges stern actions against those responsible for ordering and carrying out this brutal attack.
The legal fraternity urges the Government to control its military and ensure that they are used for legitimate purposes only. In a constitutional democracy, attacking peaceful unarmed protesters or disrupting legitimate civil activities of the citizens is not a legitimate objective of the Armed Forces or the law enforcement authorities.
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