Between 2007 and 2010 I worked in Hong Kong and various countries in Asia as advocacy programme manager for the AHRC and its sister organisation, the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a regional NGO. This involved managing and writing advocacy strategies and content, liaising on casework with state officials and UN Special Procedures, and advocacy at high level fora, namely the UN Human Rights Council. Other activities, included field research on witness protection, violence against women and torture in various Asian countries and delivering workshops for human rights defenders. Below is a small selection of my work, taken from over a hundred articles and appeals written during my time there.
Reports and submissions:
Articles and statements:
‘The Price of Fighting the State in Sri Lanka’, Article 2, Vol. 08 – No. 01, Special Edition: Use of Police Powers for Profit, March 2009.
PAKISTAN: Judge humiliates teenage rape victim in open court, 28 March 2009.
Appeals:
Urgent Appeals: theory and practice.
SRI LANKA: Stop the torture of detainees at Rajangana Police Station, 8 July 2010.
SRI LANKA: Balagolla police mislead a magistrate and prepare charges against the wrong person, 9 February 2010 & SRI LANKA: Progress is made in a case of judicial and police corruption, 17 June 2010
Campaigns:
Women Speak Out: Contribution to a collection of 43 cross-regional interviews with women on torture, ill treatment and domestic violence from Sri Lanka, including interview 20 and 24. Available as a collection in Ethics in Action online.