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[Report] Defending in Numbers: A Message of Strength from the Ground 2019 – 2020
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Defending In Numbers is a biennial report that reviews the situation of human rights defenders (HRDs) across Asia as documented by FORUM-ASIA. This particular edition of the report, Defending In Numbers — A Message of Strength from the Ground, follows previous editions of...
[BRIEFING PAPER] Great Expectations: Analysis of ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management
Six months since the attempted coup, little concrete action has been taken by the UN Security Council to address the unfolding human rights, humanitarian and COVID-19 crisis in Myanmar.
How should ASEAN and the international community best provide the much needed humanitarian and pandemic-response assistance? Why is it crucial to...
[REPORT] Dictating the Internet: Curtailing Free Expression, Opinion and Information Online in Southeast Asia
In this report, the ICJ focuses its analysis on Thailand. The updated information and analysis show how State authorities have continued abusing laws that in any event are not compliant with human rights law and standards to intensify their arbitrary restrictions on human rights in the digital sphere. The...
[REPORT] Timor Leste: Internet Freedoms Under Threat
The Asia Centre has recently published a report entitled “Timor-Leste: Internet Freedoms Under Threat”, followed by an op-ed piece entitled “Timor-Leste’s internet freedoms at risk” in the Jakarta Post, and the UPR submission "Internet Freedoms Under Threat in Timor-Leste". There are also links to the event write-up of the...
[BRIEF] One Vision, Different Responses: An Analysis of ASEAN Member States’ Responses to the Myanmar Coup and Recommendations
Since the Myanmar military seized power in a coup d’état on 1 February 2021, military forces have arbitrarily arrested, charged or sentenced at least 3,331 people and killed at least 739 others, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.1 The military is now increasingly repressing independent media through...
[REPORT] If I Disappear: Global Report on Protecting Young People in Civic Space
The importance of protection in civic space was emphasized in the UN SG’s Call to Action
for Human Rights and it was one of the three key priorities in the UN’s Guidance Note on
Civic Space. In his first-ever report on YPS, the Secretary-General called for the development of dedicated guidance...
[REPORT] State of Media Freedom: Confronting the Regression of Freedom in Southeast Asia 2021
The Asia Democracy Network (ADN) recently launched an initiative to advocate for media space advancement. Crucial to this initiative is the process of mapping out the dire press freedom and democracy issues in Southeast Asia to find appropriate solutions in addressing them. Also, it is the hope of this...
Democracy Under Siege
As a lethal pandemic, economic and physical insecurity, and violent conflict ravaged the world in 2020, democracy’s defenders sustained heavy new losses in their struggle against authoritarian foes, shifting the international balance in favor of tyranny. Incumbent leaders increasingly used force to crush opponents and settle scores, sometimes in...
Press Statement for Immediate Release: End the Military Coup and Restore Democracy in Myanmar
The lapsing of Myanmar’s direct military rule in 2011 after 26 years of tyranny heralded a new, positive political phase for the peoples of Myanmar. Through democratic consciousness transcending courage and extraordinary struggles, the peoples of Myanmar laboured to achieve a transition from military rule into a democratic nation...
