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Philippines: Joint Open Letter calling on Presidential Candidates to publicly pledge to protect human rights, and ensure accountability and to end the violence against human rights defenders and Repeal the Anti-Terror Law and other Repressive Laws
As the Philippines prepare to vote in the presidential elections on 9 May 2022, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and the Philippine Alliance for Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA), urge all presidential candidates to publicly commit to protection and promotion of fundamental freedoms and human rights, create...
Civil Society Organizations welcome US determination of genocide against Rohingya
Civil Society Organizations welcome US determination of genocide against Rohingya
Myanmar military leadership must be prosecuted
Though it comes far too late, the decision of the US government to finally formally determine that the violence perpetrated by the Myanmar military against the Rohingya in 2017 in Rakhine State amounts to genocide...
[Joint Statement] Philippines: Immediately repeal SIM Card Registration Act that undermines online freedoms
We are concerned about the grave risks that the SIM Card Registration Act poses to the rights to privacy, free expression and information, association and non-discrimination in the Philippines. We are further concerned about the discriminatory impact of the law on transgender and gender diverse individuals, in the absence...
[Joint Statement] Indonesia: Drop all charges, end judicial harassment against human rights defenders Fatia Maulidiyanti and Haris Azhar
(Bangkok/Jakarta, 25 March 2022) – Human rights groups the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS), and 23 organisations condemn the judicial harassment of human rights defenders Haris Azhar and Fatia Maulidiyanti.
‘We call on the police to put an...
Singapore: Jolovan Wham’s sentencing highlights repressed civic space
(2 March 2022, Jakarta) ‒ The sentencing of Singaporean activist Jolovan Wham highlights the increasingly repressive space for activists and human rights defenders in Singapore, said the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, and Think Centre in a joint statement today.
On...
Cambodia: More arrests and increased harassment of striking NagaWorld union activists
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation and the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) are gravely concerned about the escalation of harassment against the NagaWorld union members and further arrests this week by the Phnom Penh police under the pretext of violating a pandemic law. We urge...
[Press Release] Myanmar: Hold the Junta Accountable
Human Rights Defenders call on ASEAN and the international community to hold the junta accountable for grave human rights violations and atrocity crimes in Myanmar
‘ASEAN must urgently step up to address the atrocities in Myanmar,’ said human rights defenders from Myanmar and Indonesia in a press briefing held to...
[Joint Open Letter] Thailand: The Draft Act on the Operations of Not-for-Profit Organizations B.E.
Cabinet Ministers of the Royal Thai Government
Government House
1 Phitsanulok Road Dusit
Bangkok Thailand
Cc: Council of State
All members of the National Assembly of Thailand
National Human Rights Commission of Thailand
Re: The Draft Act on the Operations of Not-for-Profit Organizations B.E…
Dear Ministers
We, the undersigned Thai and international organizations, write to express our deep...
[Joint Statement] Rights Groups in Indonesia stand in solidarity with the People of Myanmar
Jakarta, 14 January 2022 – We, the undersigned civil society organisations in Indonesia, and organisations with presence in Indonesia, express solidarity with the people of Myanmar and condemn the ongoing grave violations committed by the military junta. We reiterate our commitment to call on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)...
[Joint Statement] Laos: Nine years on, civil society worldwide still demands answers on Sombath’s enforced disappearance
(15 December 2021) On the ninth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned organizations, reiterate our calls on the Lao government to determine his fate and whereabouts, and deliver justice to him and his family.
We condemn the Lao government’s ongoing failure...
