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Author Archives: Basil Fernando

Basil Fernando is a Sri Lanka born jurist, author, poet, & a leading human rights activist in Asia. He currently works as Director of Policy and Programmes at the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission. He has played a pivotal role in linking ordinary citizens striving for human rights principles at the grassroots to institutions working for structural reform at the policy level. Basil Fernando is a Laureate of the Right Livelihood Award, also known as “The Alternative Nobel Prize”. He received the Award in 2014 “for his tireless and outstanding work to support and document the implementation of human rights in Asia.”

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The world must support Myanmar’s fledgling democracy

by Basil Fernando18:56, 13 November 201518:53, 31 March 2020

The people of Myanmar have once again spoken, and spoken very loudly, of their wish to return to democracy for the first time since 1962. One of Asia’s longest-lived military dictatorships has again been told by the people to leave, so they can be allowed to rule over their own affairs. The people of Myanmar […]

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The radical influence of the Magna Carta, eight centuries on

by Basil Fernando21:46, 31 October 201518:55, 31 March 2020
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When one man stands above the law, no rational system of legality can stand for very long

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Receiving visitors in the ‘Republic of Conscience’

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