Die Regierung verweigert dem Menschenrechtsrat die Zusammenarbeit und foltert weiter. +++ Government failing to cooperate with Human Rights Council and eradicate torture. +++ Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC)

Seit vielen Jahren schon fordern der UN-Menschenrechtsrat, der UN-Special Rapporteur of Torture und das UN-Committee Against Torture die srilankische Regierung dringend zur Beendigung der systematischen Folterpraxis auf, für die sie nachweislich verantwortlich ist. Wiederholt hat die Regierung die Vorwürfe anerkannt und sich zum Stopp der Folterungen verpflichtet. Vor dem Menschenrechtsrat erklärt das Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) jetzt, dass die Regierung keine ihrer Verpflichtungen erfüllt hat. Wir dokumentieren den 14-Punkte-Forderungskatalog des ALRC.  +++ Since many vears now the UN-Human Rights Council, the UN-Special Rapporteur of Torture an the UN-Committe Against Torture urgently ask the Srilankan Government to end its practice of systematical torture, for which it verifiable is responsible. The Government several times acknowledged those cases and oblidged itself to stop torture. Before the UN-Human Rights Council the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) now declared, that the government failed to fulfil those obligations. We document ALRC’s 14-points-catalogue of claims.

Full text of ALRC-statement: ALRC-2011

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The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is an NGO having General Consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. It was founded in 1986 by a prominent group of jurists and human rights activists in Asia. It is a body committed to the development of legal self-reliance and empowerment of people. It will place particular emphasis in its work on the areas of cultural, social and economic rights and the right of development. ALRC will work closely with and support regional, national, and local groups involved in this field, taking care, at the same time, to protect the autonomy and independence of such groups.