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Burma/Myanmar: Human Rights Council should establish an independent, international investigation into gross human rights abuses [Joint Statement]
FORUM-ASIA together with Progressive Voice, Women’s Peace Network, Kachin Women’s Association-Thailand, and Ta’ang Women’s Organization, call on the UN Human Rights Council to establish a commission of inquiry or a similar mechanism to investigate allegations of grave international humanitarian law and human rights violations in Burma/Myanmar
15 March 2017 6:05...
PRESS RELEASE: AICHR JUDICIAL COLLOQUIUM ON THE SHARING OF GOOD PRACTICES REGARDING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW, 13 – 15 MARCH 2017
The objectives of the Colloquium, amongst others, were to encourage greater peer-to-peer interaction, share good practices and challenges in the implementation of international human rights laws and to strengthen judicial co-operation between relevant stakeholders.
The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission of Human Rights (AICHR) organized the first-ever AICHR Judicial Colloquium on the...
NOW MORE THAN EVER IS THE TIME TO MARCH, RESIST, STRUGGLE! [Joint Statement]
On March 8, 2017 women from urban poor communities, from factories, from offices, from the rural areas, the peasant and indigenous women alike, and from schools shall come out to show to the these forces that we are persisting, we are resisting, we are reclaiming our spaces, our rights,...
Southeast Asia: As governments fail on human rights, women stand up [Amnesty International]
As the world marks International Women’s Day, Amnesty International recognizes the work of six distinguished women human rights activists who have faced harassment, threats, imprisonment, and violence for standing up for human rights in the region.
As the world marks International Women’s Day, Amnesty International recognizes the work of six...
UN Secretary-General’s Message for International Women’s Day
Women’s rights are human rights. But in these troubled times, as our world becomes more unpredictable and chaotic, the rights of women and girls are being reduced, restricted and reversed.
Date: 06 March 2017
Women’s rights are human rights. But in these troubled times, as our world becomes more unpredictable and...
Gabungan Bertindak Malaysia – International Women’s Day Message
Gender equality remains a challenging task in Malaysia. As we are facing many issues plaguing our nation in this critical moment, we should always remember that, our society is not free until our women are free.
7 March 2017
Gabungan Bertindak Malaysia (GBM) wishes all the women in Malaysia a Happy...
FORUM-ASIA Statement – International Women’s Day 2017
As the world joins hands together to celebrate, support, and motivate women around the world, FORUM-ASIA reiterates its call to all Asian Governments to halt the criminalisation and harassment of all women human rights defenders and human rights defenders.
8 March 2017 11:06 am
The Asian Forum for Human Rights and...
Press Statement: Free Lena Hendry – Victim of Unjust Censorship Law [Pusat KOMAS Statement]
We would like to strongly remind the authorities and their relevant agencies that the Malaysian Constitution under Article 10 guarantees Malaysian citizens the right to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of association.
Lena Hendry was found guilty on February 21 2017 by the Magistrate’s Court in Kuala...
Justice for Renato “Tatay Rene” Anglao! #StopLumadKillings! [Petition at CHANGE.org]
We, concerned students, faculty, and staff of the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, condemn in the strongest terms the killing of Renato “Tatay Renz” Anglao of the Manobo Pulangihon tribe of Barangay Botong, Quezon, Bukidnon.www.change.org
We, concerned students, faculty, and staff of the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology,...
Pursue peace. Resume the peace talks. [TFDP Statement]
This saber-rattling of both parties does not augur well for peace and justice to reign in our land. Forty-eight years of internecine conflict have wasted so much of our fellow Filipinos’ lives and our meager resources.
On Political Prisoners
Tuesday, 07 February 2017 19:30
TFDP laments the decision of both parties –...
