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Myanmar – Student human rights defender Po Po arrested and facing charge (Front Line Defenders)
Student activist Po Po spent the night of Thursday, 8 April 2015, in a Kamayut Township jail. The 20-year-old human rights defender was arrested that day from her home, less than a month after a Kamayut Township Judge issued an arrest warrant for Po Po and fellow student activists...
[ACSC/APF 2015] ASEAN should get people back as its focus – Jakarta
As ASEAN is heading for the creation of a single community later this year, the grouping needs to get people back at the center of its activities, a prime focus that will bring benefit to people in the region, activists say.
Alex Bue, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | World |...
Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award 2015 goes to Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh
Civil Rights Defenders is delighted to announce the 2015 Civil Rights Defender of the Year. Ms. Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh this year’s recipient is Coordinator for the Vietnamese Bloggers Network and well known for her use of social media to speak out against injustices and human rights abuses in...
STATEMENT: ASEAN NEEDS TO ADDRESS RISING INTOLERANCE IN MYANMAR
HUMANiTi Malaysia, in partnership with the OIC, KAICIID and ALTSEAN-Burma, convened a roundtable ‘Tolerance in a People-Centred ASEAN’ on 6-7 April 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The event brought together diverse stakeholders from the ASEAN region, including representatives of more than 20 national, regional and international nongovernmental organisations, to...
GERAKAN HAPUS AKTA HASUTAN [GHAH] Memorandum: Withdraw amendments which make the Sedition Act a harsher tool of oppression
Gerakan Hapus Akta Hasutan (GHAH) have come together to express in the strongest terms our opposition to the amendments to the Sedition Act 1948.
Gerakan Hapus Akta Hasutan (GHAH) have come together to express in the strongest terms our opposition to the amendments to the Sedition Act 1948.
We view the...
Girls for Sale: Inside Cambodian Trafficking
Renowned New York Times investigative journalist, Nicholas Kristof, has a receipt for two human girls. In 1996, he traveled to Cambodia to shed light on the truth behind the mysterious human trafficking industry and in 2004, Kristof brought back “proof” that slavery continues to exist in the 21st century...
Thailand: UN rights chief warns against Government’s ‘draconian’ powers
The top United Nations human rights official has expressed alarm at the Government of Thailand’s decision to bestow wide-ranging powers upon General Prayuth Chan-ocha – the leader of the military coup that deposed Thailand’s elected Government in 2014 and, currently, the country’s Prime Minister.
2 April 2015 – The top...
URGENT APPEAL – Save the life of Filipina MARY JANE VELOSO! (IHCRP)
Veloso was a victim of large-scale international drug syndicates, of circumstance and of government neglect. The series of unjust executions of Filipinos on death row should be put to a stop.
Posted on: 04-5-2015
APPEAL FOR URGENT ACTION
Mary Jane Veloso is a 30-year-old Filipina mother-of-two sentenced to death by the Indonesian...
Open Letter: KontraS’ Inputs to the Guidelines on the Relation Between AICHR and Civil Society Organizations
The Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS), a human rights organization based in Indonesia would like to appreciate the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission for Human Rights (AICHR) for the adopted Guidelines on the AICHR's Relation with Civil Society Organization in February 2015
The Commission for the Disappeared and...
[Southern Peasants’ Federation of Thailand] Thailand – Death threats and acts of surveillance against members of Southern Peasants’ Federation of Thailand
On 25 March 2015, two members of the Southern Peasants' Federation of Thailand - SPFT (Southern Peasant Cooperatives) were stopped by unknown persons as they were leaving the Chaiburi District, Surat Thani Province, Thailand
On 25 March 2015, two members of the Southern Peasants' Federation of Thailand - SPFT (Southern...
