In this issue------

1. Holding the line on the Paris Principles

2. New countries in the dock?

3. Torture: closing pandora's box

4. Disappearances: where have all the pledges gone?

5. Summary executions

6. Building cooperation: SR on housing

7. 'My approach has a strong legal basis' (An interview with Miloon Kothari)

8. 'SRs must be made part of mainstream' (An interview with Radhika Coomaraswamy

9. Education: Resolution drafters need to study harder

10. Thailand's 'anti-national' human rights commission

11. Philippines HRC: yet to get off the mark

12. Fewer teeth for Australia's HREOC?

13. Truth Commissions: Peddling impunity?

14. ‘TRC does not provide a forum to escape prosecution’

15. Palais Intrigue