Unicef Acknowledges Malaysia’s Commitment On Children’s Rights
KOTA KINABALU, Dec 4 (Bernama) -- The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has acknowledged Malaysia's commitment towards the Convention on the Rights of Children (CRC), despite reservations on some of the convention's conditions.
Unicef representative in Malaysia, Wivina Belmonte was happy to note that the country had removed certain reservations...
EU Relates To Malaysia’s Concerns Over CRC
KOTA KINABALU, Dec 4 (Bernama) -- Nations of the European Union (EU) shared the same reservations as Malaysia has on the Convention of the Rights of a Child (CRC).
Head of the EU delegation to Malaysia, Luc Vanderbon said the EU initially had a charter that the rights of children...
Rohingya refugees being ‘held in secret Thai jungle camps and sold to human traffickers’
A special correspondent for the South China Morning Post has been led to a secret refugee camp deep in the Thai jungle, where an escapee said about 1,500 Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar are being hidden in appalling conditions.
The former detainee said at least 16 people had died and many...
Thailand’s Secret Smuggler Gulags for Rohingya Confirmed by News Agency
PHUKET: A long-awaited report from the Reuters news agency confirms today that thousands of Rohingya boatpeople are being transited through Thailand in a covert and abusive smuggling operation.
The report from three countries adds substance to Tuesday's Phuketwan world exclusive, revealing claims that boatpeople are dying daily in secret camps...
Vietnam UN Rights Tribunal calls for release of Vietnamese lawyer
The detention of Vietnamese blogger, lawyer and human rights activist, Le Quoc Quan, has been condemned by a United Nations human rights tribunal as violating his right to freedom of expression and his right to a fair trial.
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, a tribunal set up under...
Religious intolerance in Indonesia goes up a notch
Brace yourself to see more discrimination and persecution of religious minorities in Indonesia, after the House of Representatives formally re-endorsed a law limiting the number of religions recognised by the state to only six.
While this policy has been in place since the 1950s, last week’s amendment of the 2004...
Indonesia: Ratification of enforced disappearance convention will ensure human rights: Minister
The Foreign Ministry says the human rights of Indonesians will be protected with the issuance of a law on the ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
However, Wednesday’s work meeting between the government and the House of Representative’s foreign affairs commission decided...
Cambodia: Rally to include capital
The Cambodia National Rescue Party has said it plans to expand the mass demonstration already slated for Tuesday in Siem Reap to include another large rally in the capital.
The CNRP announced late last month it was moving its first in a series of new rallies to Siem Reap to...
Cambodians Regularly Face Pre-Trial Detention: Rights Group
Cambodian authorities frequently hold suspects, especially the young, in detention pending trial, even though the law could allow them to be released on bail while awaiting the completion of their judicial proceedings, according to a report released Wednesday.
Minor crime suspects are also provided a “worryingly low” level of legal...
Malaysia: Illiterate migrant kids a ‘time bomb’
Kota Kinabalu: The growing number of uneducated migrant children in Sabah, will pose a social time bomb situation in Malaysia if unsolved in the long term, possibly escalating crime rates as seen in West Malaysia by 'Sabahans' and social problems, as seen in some countries in Europe by migrant...
