ASEAN JUDICIAL DIALOGUE ON RENDERING DECISIONS INVOLVING HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. The first time, about 40 judges and representatives from judicial training institutions across Southeast Asia gathered to discuss recent developments in international human rights law on the right to life, with a focus on extrajudicial executions, death in custody and enforced disappearances. The judicial dialogue focused on the worst human rights violations: extrajudicial executions, deaths in custody and enforced disappearances. These are considered as the worst human rights violations because the perpetrators are government agents who are supposed to protect the people. “Enforced disappearance (when a person is illegally arrested or abducted by people from the government) is one of the most serious crimes that can be committed against a person. Serious sentences should thus be imposed against those who perpetrate these crimes.” - Dr. Matt Pollard, Senior Legal Advisor, International Commission of Jurists (Geneva). “On the way of Seeking for Truth and Justice there’re a lot of barriers especially when the perpetrators are State officers. It’s really difficult or may be impossible for an ordinary people / women to access to Justice and Truth.” –Angkhana Neelapaijit Chair of Justice for Peace Foundation and victim of enforced disappearance said. Prof. Vitit Muntarbhorn, ICJ Commissioner and law professor at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, stress that “.. in the face of allegations of violations of the right to life or other human rights, judges must ensure effective investigations are conducted, victims have access to effective remedies and reparation and fair proceeding against those responsible for violations and victims of human rights have lost their voice. Let us be the voices of the half-voices, he said.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 11:42:11 +0000
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