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JOINT STATEMENT ON ABOLISH THE SEDITION ACT & THE FORMATION OF ABOLISH THE SEDITION ACT MOVEMENT/ GERAKAN HAPUS AKTA HASUTAN (GHAH)
We, the undersigned organisations have come together to express in the strongest terms our protest against the continuing usage of the repressive, colonial and undemocratic Sedition Act of 1948.
We, the undersigned organisations have come together to express in the strongest terms our protest against the continuing usage of the...
Indonesia: New administration must resolve killing of human rights defender Munir
Amnesty International urges President-elect Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to ensure that his plan to resolve past human rights violations includes accountability for the killing of human rights defender Munir Said Thalib.
Index: ASA 21/024/2014
5 September 2014
Amnesty International urges President-elect Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to ensure that his plan to resolve past human...
WANTED: A Singaporean to champion women’s rights in ASEAN
The Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) has invited civil society organisations to nominate candidates for Singapore’s representative for women’s rights on the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC).
Dr Aline Wong, Singapore’s current representative, will end her term in...
URGENT APPEAL: False charges against Mr. Edcil Bacalso and Mr. Wilson Fortaleza
URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY
PHL 004 / 0914 / OBS 074
False charges / Judicial harassment
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation...
Message on the Occasion of International Day of the Disappeared
As we commemorate today the International Day of the Disappeared, we remember the thousands of people who have been victims of enforced disappearance-one of the worst, if not the worst of all human rights violations. We remember Somchai Neelapaijit, a human rights lawyer from Thailand, Sombath Somphone, a development...
Business & human rights in ASEAN: Recent appeals to AICHR Representatives and Foreign Ministers
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre joined 56 other civil society organizations led by FORUM-ASIA in appealing that the Foreign Ministers ensure a transparent, accountable and participatory review process of the AICHR’s Terms of Reference
In time for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting last August...
[Thailand] Intimidation against lawyers and human rights organizations
1 September 2014, TLHR and other organizing organizations have been contacted and asked my Thailand’s military officials to cancel the presentation event in reporting the situation of human rights “Access to Justice in Thailand: Currently Unavailable Human Rights Situation 100 Days after the Coup.
The Thai Lawyers for Human Rights...
Statement on the Arbitrary Detention of 11 Marchers of the Energy Walk
4 leaders and 7 supporters of the Partnership on Energy Reform – a platform of people proposing energy reforms to Thailand’s energy sector – were arrested on 20th August whilst on their campaign walk, entitled The Energy Walk.
4 leaders and 7 supporters of the Partnership on Energy Reform –...
Death threats still stand and are repeated against the Wang Saphung community
We, the undersigned 17 organisations are deeply concerned about the Wang Saphung community’s situation. The death threats against 10 community members are still standing. More worryingly, we have been told by community leader Mrs Viron Rujichaiwat – mother of a one-month old baby – that she received a phone...
Special Meeting of AICHR and the Meeting of the AMM with the AICHR
The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) convened a Special Meeting, in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar on 6 – 9 August 2014. The meeting was chaired by H.E. U Kyaw Tint Swe, the Representative of Myanmar to AICHR and the Chair of the AICHR.
6 – 9 August 2014,...
