New Study Sees ‘No End in Sight’ to Cambodia’s Land Conflicts
Vague policies and weak implementation of the law are fueling a rapid rise in land disputes in Cambodia as the government grants land concessions through a system which benefits the political elite, a new two-year study showed Thursday.
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), which conducted the study, called...
Cambodia: Hun Sen’s Human Rights Speech Finds Little Purchase
WASHINGTON DC — Rights workers say they are deeply skeptical of comments made by Prime Minister Hun Sen in support of International Human Rights Day.
The government for the first time held major ceremonies to mark the day, Dec. 10, in what some political analysts say signified a new kind...
The Philippines: Killing of journalists a nat’l catastrophe
Radio journalist Rogelio Butalid lies dead outside the Radyo Natin station in Tagum City after being shot by a lone gunman on Wednesday. Butalid (inset) was also a village councilor. FRINSTON LIM/INQUIRER MINDANAO
An international human rights watchdog has urged President Aquino to declare the deadly attacks on Filipino journalists...
12 Journalists Killed in the Philippines This Year, Says Human Rights Watch
With the murder of a radio journalist in the Philippines Wednesday morning, a total of three journalists have been killed and one wounded in a spate of deadly attacks in the country over the last two weeks and 12 in 2013 overall. The most recent incidents mark an uptick...
The Philippines: Political Detainees freed on Human Rights Day
Three (3) Muslim victims of arbitrary arrest and detention were released last December 10, 2013, Human Rights Day after the Taguig Regional Trial Court's decision that they were victims of mistaken identity.
Mujeener Dagam Cabalo and his two other co-accused were released from the Special Intensive Care Area of the...
RI faces human rights ’emergency’
Indonesia is in a state of emergency regarding human rights violations, according to the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), the National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) and the National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas PA).
"With the increase of rights violations, unresolved past cases and the...
Thailand: New Cover-Up in Lawyer’s ‘Disappearance’
(New York) – The Thai government needs to account for missing documents in the case of the enforced disappearance and presumed murder of a prominent Muslim human rights lawyer nearly a decade ago, Human Rights Watch said today. On March 12, 2004, Somchai Neelapaijit was pulled from his car...
Thai Protests: Fake Elections are Unacceptable
The Western media portrays the current political unrest in Thailand as “elite vs. rural poor” struggle between Thailand’s establishment and the political machine of Thaksin Shinawatra which it claims is “democratically elected” and therefore “legitimate.” It repeatedly reminds readers of how Thaksin’s opposition has failed to win in elections...
Milwaukee conference to tackle fate of persecuted Myanmar immigrants
Life for the Rohingya Muslims of Burma, now Myanmar, is among the most dire of any people on Earth. And Shaukhat Ali of Milwaukee knows that as well as anyone.
Many of Ali's family members, he says, have been killed or have disappeared.
His mother, sister and brother are among more...
The Philippines: Groups tell Aquino: act on media killings
DAVAO CITY – President Benigno S Aquino III reportedly promised to act on the spate of media killings in the last few weeks, in pronouncements he made over at the ASEAN Summit in Tokyo, Japan.
Human rights and media groups earlier slammed President Aquino’s inaction on the recent spate of...
