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Race treaty divides Malaysia
A convention to end racial discrimination is stoking anger in Malaysia.
But fears that the ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) could have adverse consequences may be ill-founded.
The ICERD is a United Nations Convention which commits its members to the elimination...
Exclusive: What do Malaysia’s reformers really want to achieve?
Interview with Nurul Izzah Anwar, Malaysian Member of Parliament and political activist.
“We have proven to the world that political transition can take place after six decades without so much as a drop of blood,” says Nurul Izzah Anwar, a Malaysian Member of Parliament, human rights activist and ardent reformist...
Indonesian soldier killed in separatist attack in Papua
Indonesian soldiers prepare to board a helicopter from Wamena in Papua province on Wednesday to retrieve the bodies of the construction workers killed in Nduga. (AFP photo)
JAKARTA: A soldier has been killed in Indonesia's eastern province of Papua where security forces are hunting for a separatist group suspected of...
‘Abusive and absurd’: The LGBTI rights crisis unfolding before Indonesia’s elections
South China Morning Post: An Amnesty International researcher says the persecution of Indonesia's LGBTI community is escalating and is not just limited to conservative Muslim areas.
JAKARTA — Amanda, who identifies as bisexual, whispers about deep fear and frustration in Indonesia’s LGBTI community. Fajri, a 29-year-old gay cartoonist from Jakarta,...
Justifying the Jokowi-Ma’ruf union
Indonesia's President Joko Widodo (R) and his running mate Ma'ruf Amin (2nd L) take part in a peace declaration for the general election campaign at the National Monument in Jakarta on 23 September, 2018. (Adek Berry / AFP Photo)
Home to the largest Muslim population in the world, Indonesia recently...
Thailand extends detention of refugee footballer from Bahrain
Bangkok - A refugee footballer from Bahrain has been detained for another 12 days in Thailand, an immigration official said Tuesday, as a rights group decried the "tug of war" over his fate.
Hakeem Alaraibi, a former player for Bahrain's national side, was stopped on an Interpol red notice...
ASEAN can help Myanmar solve Rohingya problem
By Dr. Nehginpao Kipgen
At the end of the 33rd ASEAN summit in Singapore on Nov. 15, Singapore formally handed over the symbolic gavel of ASEAN chairmanship to Thailand, which it last held in 2009. The one-year rotating term will officially begin on Jan. 1, 2019.
As the incoming chair, Thailand...
Jacinda Ardern offers Aung San Suu Kyi NZ help to resolve plight of Rohingyas
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has offered Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi any help New Zealand could give to resolve the Rohingya crisis.
The pair met in Singapore today and began by acknowledging it had been a year since they last met – at Apec in Vietnam, and at the...
Thammakaset must drop ‘harassment’ of rights defenders, say 15 groups
International organisations are joining the call for Thai authorities and a Thai-owned poultry company to drop criminal and civil defamation complaints brought by the company against human rights defenders.
Rights defenders Nan Win and Sutharee Wannasiri said 15 international, regional and national groups joined with Fortify Rights to issue a...
Two decades since Reformasi, families of rights abuse victims in Indonesia still seek justice
Student activists from Atma Jaya University demonstrating in front of the presidential palace in Jakarta during a protest last month to mark the 20th anniversary of the Semanggi I shooting. Dozens were killed in that incident, as well as in two others - called Semanggi II and Trisakti Tragedies...
