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[JOINT PRESS STATEMENT]: International Conference Organizers Turn Blind Eye to Sarawak Energy’s Complicity in Environmental Destruction and Rights Violations
As the International New York Times’ Energy for Tomorrow Conference gets underway at the Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur, human rights and environmental groups will be outside raising concerns about the ethics of the meeting’s main corporate sponsor, Sarawak Energy Bhd (SEB).
Posted on November 18, 2014 by SUARAM
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Special Meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)
The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) convened a Special Meeting on 14 – 16 November 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. It is the last Meeting of the year for the AICHR under the Chairmanship of H.E. U Kyaw Tint Swe, Representative of Myanmar to the AICHR.
Posted on: 16...
URGENT APPEAL: Labor leader Arrested and Detained
The Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) writes to inform you about the arrest of Antonio T. Cuizon, president of the Panaghiusa sa Mamumuo sa Carmen Copper (PMCC), an organized union of Carmen Copper Incorporated since 1985.
Dear friends,
The Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) writes to inform...
[SUARAM Press Statement] – Deplorable Harassment Against Zunar and His Team
Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) decries the unrelenting harassment and persecution by government against political cartoonist Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque, or better known by his pen name Zunar.
For immediate release
13 November 2014
DEPLORABLE HARASSMENT AGAINST ZUNAR AND HIS TEAM
Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) decries the unrelenting harassment and persecution by government against political...
[Press Release] – Regional statement takes stock of progress made and challenges remaining towards binding human rights standards on the agribusiness sector
The conference assessed progress made since the Bali Declaration on Human Rights and Agribusiness in Southeast Asia (2011) towards building regulatory capacity and standards in Southeast Asia
10 November 2014, Yangon – On 4 – 6 November, National Human Rights Commissions and civil society organisations of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the...
[BURMA PARTNERSHIP] – Impunity for Military Abuses Has to End
While there have been some notable political and democratic reforms – albeit now widely condemned by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi as having stalled since early 2013 – there has been no progress whatsoever as regards gross human rights abuses committed by the Burma Army.
By Burma Partnership | November...
[Press Statement] – End Persecution Against Student and Defend Academic Freedom
Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) is extremely concerned with the ceaseless harassment and oppression by police, university authorities and government towards our young university student for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and assembly.
For immediate release
10 November 2014
END PERSECUTION AGAINST STUDENT AND DEFEND ACADEMIC FREEDOM
Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) is...
Malaysia: Halt All Sedition Cases Pending Highest Court Decision
The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), together with its member Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM), welcomed yesterday’s judgment by the High Court to refer a law professor’s challenge of the constitutionality of the Sedition Act 1948 directly to the country’s highest judicial body, the Federal Court of...
Searching for Human Rights Protection in ASEAN: File Not Found
The 2013 performance of the AICHR and ACWC has been evaluated in the report “Four years on and still treading water”, published by FORUM-ASIA and the Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacy – Task Force on ASEAN and Human Rights (SAPA TFAHR).
For Immediate Release
(Jakarta, 6 November 2014),The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission...
The 7th Regional Consultation on ASEAN and Human Rights [Jakarta, 4 – 5 November 2014]
“Acceleration of the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015: Making Human Rights Count”
I. Background
The Regional Consultation on ASEAN and Human Rights is an ASEAN civil society initiative led by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and SAPA Task Force on ASEAN and Human Rights (TFAHR). The Regional...
