Civil Society Forum
[APPRN & IHRP Mahidol University] Short Course on Advocacy and Refugee Rights
The Short Course on Advocacy and Refugee Rights is an initiative organised by the Legal Aid and Advocacy Working Group (LAAWG) of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) and the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies (IHRP) at Mahidol University. The course aims to strengthen participants’ capacity,...
#BEChat : Coming Out – A Twitter Discussion with LGBT Groups in Southeast Asia
Do Asian LGBTs really need to come out when mothers have excellent LGBT radar? How was your coming out experience?
Do Asian LGBTs really need to come out when mothers have excellent LGBT radar? How was your coming out experience?
Join BE peer support web-app in a #BEChat on Coming Out...
Press conference and panel discussion: Sombath Somphone: 1,000 Days Without Justice
FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights) and The Sombath Initiative
Sombath Somphone: 1,000 Days Without Justice
Press conference and panel discussion
10:30am, Friday September 11, 2015
This is not an FCCT-sponsored event. It is a paid function and responsibility for program content is solely that of the event organizer
On the evening of December...
ASEAN Responsible Business Forum
Join us at The ASEAN Responsible Business Forum, a high-level regional platform that brings together government officials, civil society and businesses in a multi-stakeholder platform to discuss the burning issues of the day and share best practices of responsible business or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The theme of the...
Human Rights Watch Submission: World Development Report on Internet for Development
The report represents an opportunity for the World Bank to provide policy guidance to governments in the digital age and ensure that investments in Internet technologies promote social and economic opportunity, civic participation, and good governance.
The report represents an opportunity for the World Bank to provide policy guidance to...
[APWLD] 2nd Asia Pacific “Women Leading, Women Organising” training
With the success of its first training, APWLD will hold its 2nd ‘Women Leading, Women Organizing’ training in Manila, Philippines from 14th to 18thNov. It is important to note that the Ministerial Meeting of theAsia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) will be held on18th-19thNov, thus providing the trade union training...
INDONESIA: Three years later, forcibly evicted Sampang Shi’a community still wanting to go home – Amnesty
On 26 August 2015, it will be three years since the Shi’a community from Sampang district in East Java, Indonesia, was attacked and forcibly evicted from their homes by anti-Shi’a mobs. At least 168 people, including 51 children, were attacked by around 500 people with sharp weapons and stones....
The 8th Regional Consultation on ASEAN and Human Rights: Migration and Human Rights in ASEAN
The Regional Consultation serves as a platform for strengthening engagement of civil society with the ASEAN Human Rights Mechanisms, namely the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), and the ASEAN Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC); and for discussing the...
Asian People’s Land Rights Tribunal: Land Rights are Human Rights
This publication contains the struggles of four cases presented by the aggrieved communities in Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, and deliberated by an international panel of experts during the Asian People's Land Rights Tribunal. These cases have all exhausted various grievance mechanisms, seeking justice for the violations committed on...
National Security Laws and Measures: the Impacts on Indigenous Peoples
The briefing paper looks into how these national laws and measures are impacting the indigenous peoples in Bangladesh, India, Thailand and the Philippines.
The briefing paper looks into how these national laws and measures are impacting the indigenous peoples in Bangladesh, India, Thailand and the Philippines.
