Human Rights Day 2022 Feature:
Encouraging (and Personal) Counsel for Aspiring Human Rights Scholars and Practitioners in Asia
Published on 9 December 2022
Some Reflections of Professor Surya P. Subedi KC
by Surya P, Subedi KC
My mission in life has always been, and will remain, to promote fairness in international relations; to strengthen the rules-based international order; and to advance human rights both nationally and internationally. I believe in universalism: accepting all human beings as one family, respecting people’s personal liberty and upholding liberal values in social interactions.
Published on 13 December 2022
My work as a Member of the UN Human Rights Council Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
by Tae-Ung Baik
I just concluded my seven-year term as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (Working Group) on April 30, 2022. I started as a member in 2015, and served as Vice-Chair during 2018-2020 and then as the Chair-Rapporteur for 2020-2021. It was my great honour to work along with four other excellent human rights experts at the Working Group. The Working Group, established in 1980 as the first special procedure of the UN human rights body, assists in determining the fate or whereabouts of individuals who have reportedly disappeared, and it serves as a channel of communication between family members of victims of enforced disappearance and the governments concerned.
Published on 16 December 2022
Reflections for emerging scholars and practitioners working in human rights in Asia
by Priya Gopalan
I am a Malaysian lawyer specialising in international criminal law, human rights law, and gender. Over the last 20 years, I have held various roles in the fields of transitional justice, accountability, and human rights, while working with the UN, governments and civil society organisations. In 2021, I was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, as the member for Asia-Pacific States.