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The ASEAN Human Rights Declaration: A Legal Analysis
This publication provides a legal analysis of the AHRD, which is intended to assess the extent to which it is consistent with international law and ASEAN Member States’ existing international legal obligations. It assumes that ASEAN will eventually develop a regional human rights convention similar to the American, African...
Myanmar 2014 – 2015: ICT for Democracy & Active Citizenships | Scoping Study and Report – September 2015
The beginnings of an unprecedented democratic transition in Myanmar have come just as the spread of mobile phones and the internet is opening up massive new opportunities for communication and learning for the country's 50 million people.
The beginnings of an unprecedented democratic transition in Myanmar have come just as...
Nay Pyi Taw Declaration on the ASEAN Community’s Post 2015 Vision
Nay Pyi Taw Declaration on the ASEAN Community's Post 2015 Vision. Nay Pyi Taw, 12 November 2014.
30 Years of Hun Sen: Violence, Repression and Corruption in Cambodia
The 67-page report, “30 Years of Hun Sen: Violence, Repression, and Corruption in Cambodia,” chronicles Hun Sen’s career from being a Khmer Rouge commander in the 1970s to his present role as prime minister and head of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). The report details the violence, repression,...
Laos: Open letter from Amnesty International directors to Sombath Somphone
Two years after the disappearance of Sombath Somphone on the evening of 15 December 2012, the directors from across the global Amnesty International movement write to express their deepest hopes for his safe return.
Two years after the disappearance of Sombath Somphone on the evening of 15 December 2012, the...
Missed Opportunities: Recommendations for investigating the disappearance of Sombath Somphone
In the report, Missed Opportunities: Recommendations for Investigating the Disappearance of Sombath Somphone, which was co-authored by Michael Taylor QPM, a leading international investigator, the ICJ noted that despite the passage of two years since Sombath Somphone’s apparent enforced disappearance on December 15, 2012, very little information about the...
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...
Indigenous Media, Freedom of Expression and Right to Information: ASEAN Scenario
This briefing paper provides an assessment of the overall situation of indigenous peoples in relation to their right to media, access to information and freedom of expression as emphasized in article 16 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). I
This briefing paper provides an assessment...
“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...
