Myanmar must fight religious violence, says UN
Violence against Muslims in Myanmar has triggered international outrage. A report by UN Special Rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana stresses the necessity and urgency for the government in Naypyidaw to find a solution.
"It is always the same pattern. A few days ahead of time, there are rumors about which mosques...
Cambodia: Land-titling process ‘urgent’, Oxfam says
Accelerating the mapping and titling of rural farmland should be an “urgent” priority of the government and civil society, particularly when it comes to protecting indigenous peoples’ and women’s rights, Oxfam representatives said yesterday.
The remarks followed the release of an EU-funded survey of rural communities’ perceptions of their land...
Malaysia: Govt’s Human Rights Report to UN ‘Less Than Truthful’
The Coalition of Malaysian NGOs in the UPR Process (Comango) has slammed the government for being "less than truthful" in its report to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is the Human Rights Council's mechanism to promote and protect human rights through peer review process...
Group Protests Fate of Condemned Nigerians In Indonesia
A coalition of Human Rights groups has stormed the Anambra state House of Assembly in a protest to demand the intervention of the lawmakers in the release of 14 Nigerians currently on death row in Indonesia.
The group stated that the prisoners had been condemned to death without fair hearing.
Mr....
Philippine Wartime Sexual Abuse Victim Promoting Human Rights
A Philippine survivor of wartime rape and human trafficking is in Winnipeg to share her story with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
Lola Fidencia David, 86, was accompanied Thursday by Cristina Lope Rosello, a Filipina therapist who helps former comfort women deal with the trauma of their past.
David was...
CAMBODIA: Time to get to work
The more Hun Sen attempts to ignore grievances of the increasingly vocal cohort of Cambodian voters who allege election irregularities and fraud, the more the emboldened and determined opposition party demands an independent impartial joint CNRP-CPP investigation committee to seek more accurate accounting of ballots cast in the July...
Malaysia: NGOs disappointed with vague Govt statement at UPR
KUALA LUMPUR: The Government’s statement regarding Malaysia's current state of human rights at the second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva was criticised as being too vague by a grouping of local non-governmental organisations (NGO).
Members of the Coalition of Malaysian NGOs in the UPR Process (Comango) expressed their shock...
Over 200,000 Indonesians enslaved: Study
The Global Slavery Index 2013, published by the Walk Free Foundation, an Australian-based organization dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery, reveals that there are more than 200,000 slaves in Indonesia.
The Walk Free Foundation’s inaugural Global Slavery Index, which was released at Chatham House in London on Thursday, estimates that there...
Brunei a throwback to an age of absolute monarchy
With a swing of his powerful arm, a prison guard landed a wicked-looking cane on the back of a dummy dressed in the white uniform of convicts in Brunei.
“It doesn’t hurt as much as you think,” he said.
Earlier this month, the International Convention Centre in Brunei’s capital, Bandar Seri...
ASEAN Leaders to intensify efforts towards ASEAN Community 2015
JAKARTA, Oct. 18 -- At the heels of the recently concluded ASEAN Summit in Brunei Darussalam, H.E. Nyan Lynn, Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN told members of the diplomatic community that "the Leaders reaffirmed their commitment to intensify efforts towards realizing the ASEAN Community 2015."
In a statement, Lynn spoke on...
