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Aquino’s subservience to U.S. must end, VFA/EDCA nixed to give Jennifer Laude & Mamasapano victims justice
While Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton was arraigned today in the Regional Trial Court Branch 74 at Olongapo City, a militant women’s rights solon reiterated her position for the total abrogation of the military basing agreements with the United Stated entered into by the government.
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Burma Partnership – Land Policies and Laws Must Reflect Rights and Interests of Vulnerable Communities
Like other developing South-East Asian countries, Burma is grappling with the sticky and complex problems of land ownership, rights and use. As is often the case, it is the poor and marginalized communities who are most vulnerable to exploitation and human rights abuses, particularly small-scale farmers in Burma’s beleaguered...
Laos: Civil society leader Sombath Somphone missing for 800 days
The Lao government must turn words into action and step up the investigation into the enforced disappearance of prominent civil society leader Sombath Somphone and publicly disclose the findings, FIDH and it member organization, the Lao Movement for Human Rights (LMHR), said today.
International Federation for Human Rights and Lao...
Thailand: Freedom of expression stifled again under the draconian Lèse Majesté Law
FORUM-ASIA is deeply concerned by the Thai Criminal Court’s verdict today on ‘The Wolf Bride’ case under lèse majesté law (Article 112 under the Criminal Code) that concluded with the conviction and sentencing of two theatre activists to two and half years imprisonment.
For Immediate Release
(Bangkok, 23 February 2015) –...
APF 2015 officially hands statement to ASEAN governments and Government of Malaysia
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Malaysia officially received the statement of the ASEAN Peoples’ Forum (APF), at a meeting between the two at Wisma Putra yesterday. The Ministry received the statement on behalf of the ASEAN governments and the Government of Malaysia.
18 February 2015
PUTRAJAYA. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
Murder of HRD Chai Bunthonglek – Open Letter to Prime Minister of Thailand
We are shocked and deeply saddened to learn about the killing of Mr. Chai Bunthonglek, a land rights activist and member of the Southern Peasant Federation of Thailand. Mr. Chai was shot on 11th February 2014 at 6 p.m. by gunmen riding on a motorbike.
Subject: Murder of Mr. Chai...
WOMEN’S INSTITUTE INDONESIA – President Joko Widodo Should End Virginity Test for All Indonesian Women and Girls!
This kind of plan based on narrow-minded moral view should strongly be criticized and questioned its constitutionality. Education should continue to build the personality and character of the child, as part of their human rights fulfillment, and not become a mean of destroying the future of children.
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17th Meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
AICHR convened its 17th Meeting, in Kuala Lumpur on 11 to 14 February 2015. The meeting was chaired by H.E Tan Sri Dr Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, the Chairperson and the Representative of Malaysia to the AICHR. The Meeting was the first regular meeting under the Chairmanship of Malaysia.
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Malaysia: FORUM-ASIA Condemn Anwar’s Conviction and Calls for Repeal of Repressive Laws
FORUM-ASIA strongly condemns the decision of the Malaysian Federal Court to uphold the conviction of Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy under Article 377B of the Malaysian Penal Code. The decision and five year sentence against the opposition leader and former Deputy Prime Minister is a gross miscarriage of justice by...
Thailand: regional human rights group condemns murder of land rights defender
FORUM-ASIA, together with its member the People’s Empowerment Foundation (PEF) from Thailand, has strongly condemned the killing of Chai Bunthonglek, a land rights defender and member of the Southern Peasant’s Federation of Thailand (SPFT) from Khlong Sai Pattana Community in Chaiburi District of the southern Surat Thani Province in...
