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[Burma Partnership] Amid a Worsening Human Rights Situation, the Burma Government Must End the Persecution of Human Rights Defenders
The Burma Government must immediately cease the targeting, oppressing, stifling, controlling and silencing of human rights defenders (HRDs) and strengthen judicial and legislative protection mechanisms to safeguard the work of HRDs so that they can carry out their valuable and legitimate human rights work
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners...
Malaysian Bar Association: Untimely and Unwarranted Upgrade in the Trafficking in Persons Report Compromises the Fight Against Human Trafficking
Such a discovery is irrefutable proof that human trafficking has been ongoing, on a large scale and for a considerable period of time, on Malaysian soil. The Malaysian Government’s alleged ignorance of this atrocity, which is incredulous, must not be disregarded or rewarded.
The Malaysian Bar is perturbed by recent...
Burma Partnership: Free and Fair Elections for Whom?
Last week, Burma’s Union Election Commission (UEC) declared that the General Elections would be set for 8 November of this year. Having previously boycotted the 2010 election on the grounds the election rules were unfair, the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) has agreed to contest the military-backed Union...
ASEAN Parliamentarians condemn passage of Cambodian NGO law
The Cambodian National Assembly’s passage of the highly controversial Law on Associations and Non-governmental Organizations (LANGO) represents a grave threat to independent civil society and constitutes a failure of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) to embrace a democratic, consultative approach to policymaking, ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR)...
APHR and other rights groups call on Thailand to drop charges against journalists
ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) joined with seven other international rights groups on Thursday to call on Thai authorities to drop charges against two journalists in southern Thailand.
July 11, 2015
ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) joined with seven other international rights groups on Thursday to call on Thai...
Asia Pacific Civil Society Statement in solidarity with Cambodian human rights defender Mr Ny Chakrya
We, the undersigned civil society organizations from across Asia and the Pacific call on the government of Cambodia to immediately and unconditionally drop all charges against Mr Ny Chakrya, which are an attack on his lawful activities as a human rights defender.
9 July 2015 3:41 pm
We, the undersigned civil...
APHR Chairperson pens joint letter to President Obama expressing concern over TIP report ratings
Chairperson Charles Santiago sent a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday expressing concern over reports that political considerations might lead the State Department to upgrade the Tier designations of Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Myanmar in its upcoming Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report.
July 11, 2015
Chairperson Charles Santiago sent...
[Open Letter] hailand: Drop all charges against 16 student human rights defenders
We, the undersigned human rights organisations, write to you regarding the charges against and arrest of 16 student activists; 7 from the Dao Din student group based in Khon Kaen, and 9 from Bangkok. These students have been charged for their role in peaceful public assemblies on 22nd May...
[Joint Letter] Drop Charges against Phuketwan Journalists Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian
We write to you as international and regional organizations working to protect the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of the media to raise serious concerns about the Royal Thai Government’s decision to seek the prosecution of Phuketwan editor Alan Morison and reporter Chutima Sidasathian for criminal libel...
ASEAN Ministers Meet on Irregular Movement of Persons
ASEAN Ministers responsible for combating transnational crime met in Kuala Lumpur today to discuss concerted regional action to address the recent influx of irregular movement of persons in Southeast Asia.
on Thursday, 02 July 2015. Posted in 2015, ASEAN Secretariat News
KUALA LUMPUR, 2 July 2015 – ASEAN Ministers responsible for...
