18 September, 2017
Agenda Item: 3 General Debate
Name of Speaker: Md. Ashrafuzzaman
United Nations Human Rights Council – 36th Regular Session
An Oral Statement to the 36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights
Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre
ASIA: Special Procedures should concentrate to justice institutional
functionality for protection of people from human rights violations
Mr. President,
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) highly commends the works of
the Special Procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The
Special Procedures have been greatly contributing to develop
international jurisprudence for the promotion and protection of all
forms of human rights, including the civil and political rights and
the economic, social, and cultural rights.
The ALRC's experiences of working in the Asian region suggest that the
protection of human beings from severe forms of abuses is yet a far
cry. Enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, torture and
ill-treatment, incommunicado arbitrary detention, and denial of
guaranteeing the right to fair trial are the way of state affairs in
most Asian states including Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India,
Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and
Thailand where the ALRC and its sister organization the Asian Human
Rights Commission actively work.
The reasons of the consistent violation of human rights by the
law-enforcement agencies of the Asian States are mainly the absence of
capable justice institutions. The policing system is coercive and
torturous. The crime investigation and forensic medicine examination
systems are still primitive, inefficient, and poorly equipped with
modern unavoidable logistics. The prosecutorial and public attorney
system is non-professional and substandard. The judiciary and its
adjudication process seriously lack credibility. The overall basic
institutions of justice do not strive for the purpose for
administering justice. Rather, the institutions survive as facades to
maintain the status quo of power structures of each of the
jurisdictions of the nation-states.
The human rights mechanisms of the United Nations needs to explore
effective and sustainable ways to address this entrenched problems for
the purpose of protection of people in their real life so that the
ultimate value of the jurisprudence truly reflect across the world.
Thank you, Mr. President.
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The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) works towards the radical
rethinking & fundamental redesigning of justice institutions in Asia,
to ensure relief and redress for victims of human rights violations,
as per Common Article 2 of the International Conventions. Sister
organisation to the Asian Human Rights Commission, the ALRC is based
in Hong Kong & holds general consultative status with the Economic &
Social Council of the United Nations.
Read this Statement online
<http://alrc.asia/asia-
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