Parallel Event: UN Human Rights Council 31st Session on ASIA's Failed Criminal Justice Institutions & its Impact On Human rights in the Region

ASIA: Failed Criminal Justice Institutions &

its Impact On Human rights in the Region

Date: Monday, 7 March 2016

Time: 16:00 to 17:30

Venue: Room XXI, Palais des Nations

Speakers:

1. Mr. Basil Fernando, Director, Programmesand Policies, ALRC, & Right Livelihood Laureate 2014;
2. Mr.Gerald Staberock,Secretary General, OMCT;
3. Mr.Adilur Rahman Khan,Secretary, Odhikar, H.R. Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh;
4. Dr. Sergei Golubok,Human Rights Lawyer, Russia.

The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), incollaboration with CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, WorldOrganisation Against Torture (OMCT), Bread for the World: Protestant Development Service, and the RightLivelihood Award Foundation invites you to a parallel event on ASIA: Failed criminal justice institutionsand its impact on human rights in the region.

Universalhuman rights norms and state obligations to protect and promote human rightsare unachievable without suitably functioning domestic justice institutions.This is because only proper justice frameworks can breathe life into humanrights guarantees.

Thepolice, prosecution, and the judiciary are vital tools in human rights work.These institutions form the central architecture of the machinery, tasked withtwo important and inseparable roles: creating deterrence to human rightsviolations, and prescribing and providing remedies when violations occur.

Unfortunately,in the Asian context, most states use the police, prosecution, and judiciary torestrict or violate human rights. Asian states maintain these three vitalinstitutions as pliable instruments that they can use to limit freedom and denydignity to their own people with impunity.

This event will discuss substantively thereasons for the prevailing appalling situation of Asian justice institutionsand human rights and the real challenges to achieving protection from humanrights abuses.

Moderator: Mr. BijoFrancis, Executive Director, Asian Legal Resource Centre, Hong Kong.

WelcomeAddress: Mr. Sharan Srinivas, Director, Research &Advocacy, Right Livelihood Award Foundation

Forevent details please contact:

Mr. Md. Ashrafuzzaman

zaman@ahrc.asia

www.alrc.asia

www.humanrights.asia