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ASEAN High Level Task Force Completes Drafting of ASEAN Community Post-2015 Vision [ASEAN Secretariat News]
This vision will chart the path over the next decade for enhancing and strengthening the ASEAN Community and enable the realisation of a politically cohesive, economically integrated and socially responsible as well as a truly people-oriented, people-centred and rules-based ASEAN,
KUALA LUMPUR, 4 October 2015 – Today, an ASEAN High...
50 years of silence – an embarrassment for Indonesia and the international community [FORUM-ASIA Statement]
50 years is an unbearably long time. Millions of people in Indonesia were directly or indirectly victimized by what happened in 1965-1966. The international community needs to support the victims to raise their voices.
30 September 2015 6:00 pm
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the failed coup in Indonesia that...
AICHR Workshop on the Implementation of Human Rights Obligations Relating to the Environment and Climate Change, 26 – 27 September 2015 [AICHR Press Release]
The AICHR Workshop on the Implementation of Human Rights Obligations Relating to the Environment and Climate Change in Mandalay, Myanmar was a follow up from the Workshop on Human Rights, Environment and Climate Change conducted in September 2014.
Posted on: 30 September, 2015
The AICHR Workshop on the Implementation of Human...
Burma’s 2015 Elections: No Place for Ignorance, Discrimination, or the Ma Ba Tha [Burma Partnership]
On 15 September 2015, the foreign embassies of Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Norway, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America issued a joint statement calling on the Burma Government to ensure transparency in the 2015 elections.
By Burma Partnership • September 22, 2015
On 15 September 2015,...
Press Release: Special Meeting of the AICHR, 16 – 17 September in Manila, Philippines
The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) convened its Special Meeting in Manila, Philippines on 16 and 17 September 2015. The Meeting was chaired by H.E. Tan Sri Dr. Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, the Chair of the AICHR and the Representative of Malaysia to the AICHR.
Posted on: 17 September,...
[Joint Statement] Paramilitary groups, impunity….the entrenched legacies of martial law
More than nine months for the Aquino administration term end, his administration will be remembered for lost ground on important measures ofbreaking impunity which is the entrenched legacy of martial law, said the Medical Action Group Inc. (MAG), Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) and Philippine Alliance of...
[Joint Statement] Statement of Concern On Lao PDR and the ACSC/APF 2016
While we have had a demonstrable commitment to the ACSC/APF process, we wish to raise our collective concern on the state of democracy and human rights in Lao PDR, and the difficulties we anticipate in having an ACSC/APF in Lao PDR in 2016.
To the Regional Steering Committee
ACSC/APF 2015 Malaysia
We,...
EU Commits to Further Strengthening Partnership with ASEAN
The European Union expressed its commitment and continued interest to strengthen and elevate the ASEAN-EU Dialogue Relations to a greater height. This was conveyed by the new EU Ambassador to ASEAN, H.E. Francisco Fontan Pardo, who presented his credentials to Secretary-General of ASEAN, H.E. Le Luong Minh today.
JAKARTA, 17...
[UN-OHCHR] “Stop the erosion of democracy”
On International Day of Democracy 2015, we call on States to recognize that civil society space is the vehicle that allows this to happen. Indeed, it is essential for a true democracy.
“Stop the erosion of democracy” – UN rights experts urge Governments across the world
GENEVA (11 September 2015) –...
[SUARAM] Celebrating 52 Years of Unity and Diversity: Moving Forward with Our National Identity and Heritage
Posted on September 16, 2015 by SUARAM
SUARAM would like to wish all Malaysian a happy Malaysia Day 2015. On this momentous occasion, we would also like to express our hopes and desire for a better and brighter Malaysia and pray that we can look back on the 16th September...
