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[ISCI Report] Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar
ISIC’s report analyses the persecution of the Rohingya against the six stages of genocide outlined by Daniel Feierstein: stigmatisation (and dehumanisation); harassment, violence and terror; isolation and segregation; systematic weakening; mass annihilation; and finally symbolic enactment involving the removal of the victim group from the collective history. The report...
Half Empty: Burma’s political parties and their human rights commitments [FIDH]
This report, based on a survey of the human rights commitments of Burma's political parties, found that parties generally favored actions aimed at tackling critical issues that gave a negative impacts on human rights. However, in several of those instances, the report shows that parties failed to identify and...
The Future of Human Rights in ASEAN: Public Call for Independence and Protection Mandates
This report describes and assesses the performance of ASEAN’s two main human rights mechanisms, the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) during 2014.
This report describes and assesses the performance of ASEAN’s...
Elections for Ethnic Equality? A Snapshot of Ethnic Perspectives on the 2015 Elections
This report finds that ethnic political parties and ethnic civil society broadly agree on fundamental issues: the need for peace, ethnic equality, self-determination, and a federal system of governance. Given the centralized governance structure and the over - bearing presence and power of the Burma Army, an institution that...
Crackdown at Letpadan: Excessive Use of Force and Violations of the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Expression in Letpadan, Bago Region, Myanmar
The new report, Crackdown at Letpadan: Excessive Use of Force and Violations of the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Expression in Letpadan, Bago Region, Myanmar also details how not all police officers at the scene participated in violence during the crackdown. Some police officers used riot shields...
Annual Report of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (2015)
The AICHR is pleased to submit the Annual Report 2015 for the consideration of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting (AMM) in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the AICHR (Article 6.6). This reporting period (July 2014 - 2015) is marked by three special occasions for the AICHR. First...
Human Rights and Businesses : 14th Informal ASEM Seminar on Human Rights
The 14th Informal ASEM Seminar on Human Rights held in December 2014 in Hanoi, Viet Nam was timely and relevant. The results reflected in this publication serve to deepen the understanding of the linkage between human rights and business in Asia and Europe. On behalf of the organisers, I...
The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Promoting and Protecting the Rights, including Health, of LGBTI People in Asia and the Pacific
This report documents the presentations and discussions made during the Workshop on the Role of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in Promoting and Protecting the Rights, including Health, of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) People in Asia and the Pacific held from 24-25 February 2015 at the...
The Rohingya Crisis and the Risk of Atrocities in Myanmar: An ASEAN Challenge and Call to Action
The report represents a call to action. It demonstrates that the escalating human rights crisis in Myanmar and Southeast Asia more broadly is exacerbated by ASEAN’s failure to take effective action.
The longstanding persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar has led to
the highest outflow of asylum seekers by...
Asian People’s Land Rights Tribunal: Land Rights are Human Rights
This publication contains the struggles of four cases presented by the aggrieved communities in Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, and deliberated by an international panel of experts during the Asian People's Land Rights Tribunal. These cases have all exhausted various grievance mechanisms, seeking justice for the violations committed on...
