Other Regional Human Rights Systems

2018 ANNI Report on the Performance and Establishment of National Human Rights Institutions in Asia

FORUM-ASIA, as the Secretariat of the Asian NGO Network on National Human Rights Institutions (ANNI), is delighted to present the publication of the 2018 ANNI Report on the Performance and Establishment of the National Human Rights Institutions in Asia. We would like to express our sincere gratitude and appreciation...

Desperation in Myanmar’s Rakhine State: Drivers of a Regional Crisis [ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights report launch and press conference]

A new report by ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR), Disenfranchisement and Desperation in Myanmar’s Rakhine State: Drivers of a Regional Crisis, details how political exclusion is exacerbating the already intense sense of desperation among Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, and driving a regional crisis that ASEAN leaders...

Human Rights and Businesses : 14th Informal ASEM Seminar on Human Rights

The 14th Informal ASEM Seminar on Human Rights held in December 2014 in Hanoi, Viet Nam was  timely and relevant. The results reflected in this publication serve to deepen the understanding of the  linkage between human rights and business in Asia and Europe. On behalf of the organisers, I...

The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Promoting and Protecting the Rights, including Health, of LGBTI People in Asia and the Pacific

This report documents the presentations and discussions made during the Workshop on the Role of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in Promoting and Protecting the Rights, including Health, of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) People in Asia and the Pacific held from 24-25 February 2015 at the...

The Rohingya Crisis and the Risk of Atrocities in Myanmar: An ASEAN Challenge and Call to Action

The report represents a call to action. It demonstrates that the escalating human rights crisis in Myanmar and Southeast Asia more broadly is exacerbated by ASEAN’s failure to take effective action. The longstanding persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar has led to
the highest outflow of asylum seekers by...

Moving Away from the Death Penalty: Lessons in South-East Asia

This publication of the OHCHR Regional Office for South-East Asia comes at a very important juncture where there is a sense that the entire region is ‘moving away’ from capital punishment. Some States are fully abolitionist (Cambodia, Timor-Leste, and the Philippines), others are abolitionist in practice (Brunei Darussalam, Lao...

Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Professor Surya P. Subedi – Phnom Penh, 23 January 2015

I was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in March 2009, and by April this year I will have had the privilege of serving as the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia for the maximum term of six years. Over this time, I submitted...

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar – on 69th Session of UN General Assembly (A/69/398)

The present report sets out the Special Rapporteur's preliminary key areas of focus and reccomendation aimed at contributing to Myanmar's efforts toward respecting, protecting and promoting human rights and achieving democratization, national reconciliation and development. The present report sets out the Special Rapporteur's preliminary key areas of focus and reccomendation...

Convention on Cybercrime