Report
Malaysia: Human Rights Report Overview 2014 (SUARAM)
The Overview concludes that the year 2014 represents a new low for human rights in Malaysia under Najib’s administration, characterized by the increased repression on freedom of expression, assembly and association, detention without trial back into business as usual, free falling of international rankings on trafficking of persons and...
“We are not afraid” – Land rights defenders: attacked for confronting unbridled development
This Report shows the daily struggle conducted by land rights defenders, often confronted to “economic predators” greedily supportive of unbridled development. Land rights defenders often live in isolated areas, far from actors of protection. These factors facilitate acts of violence against them, the level of violence being proportional to...
Assault on the Commons: Deforestation and the Denial of Rights in Indonesia
2 December, 2014
Indonesia is losing its forests faster than ever. Government efforts to halt the hand out of industrial permits for logging and plantations are failing. Despite its promises to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions, the country is experiencing a run-away process of forest clearance for oil palm...
“Good Wives” – Women Land Campaigners and the Impact of Human Rights Activism
November 23, 2014 - During the last decade tens of thousands of Cambodians have been forcibly removed from their homes or their farmland and many more threatened with displacement. Since 2000, LICADHO has collected data which shows that over half a million people have been affected by land conflicts...
Discrimination and Violence Against Women in Brunei Darussalam on the Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
This submission is made by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) on the application and implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women for lesbians, bisexual women, and transgender (LBT) persons in Brunei Darussalam.
This submission is made by the International...
Four Years On and Still Treading Water: A Report on the Performance of the ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism in 2013
This is the fourth report on the ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism prepared by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and the Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacy – Task Force on ASEAN and Human Rights (SAPA TFAHR) since the establishment of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human...
Burma: Religious Freedom and Related Human Rights Violations are Hindering Broader Reforms
USCIRF is concerned that recent openings have coincided with serious and alarming violence against religious and ethnic minorities. Attacks against Muslims, particularly Rohingya Muslims, as well as against Christians, continue with impunity. Burma’s government, both at the central and state levels, has been unable or unwilling to address the...
Legal Memorandum: War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in Eastern Myanmar
The Clinic sought to determine whether violations of international criminal law occurred during the Offensive, and whether there exist reasonable grounds to assert that individual military officers could be held responsible for those crimes.
In January 2011, the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic (“the Clinic”) began to investigate...
Voices from the Ground: Concerns over the Dawei Special Economic Zone and Related Projects
This report presents the results of a quantitative and qualitative study, aimed at understanding the process by which the DSEZ project has unfolded, and the extent to which the rights of the local people are being protected and respected by the relevant States and corporations in the implementation of...
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar – on 69th Session of UN General Assembly (A/69/398)
The present report sets out the Special Rapporteur's preliminary key areas of focus and reccomendation aimed at contributing to Myanmar's efforts toward respecting, protecting and promoting human rights and achieving democratization, national reconciliation and development.
The present report sets out the Special Rapporteur's preliminary key areas of focus and reccomendation...
