Tag: Civil Society Organizations / CSOs
Thailand junta cancels human rights report launch on Vietnam
Thailand's military government on Friday forced a human rights group to cancel the public launch of its report on the Vietnamese government's persecution of an ethnic minority, saying it could affect national security and bilateral relations.
Associated Press By THANYARAT DOKSONE
June 26, 2015 8:15 AM
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's military government...
Civil society groups launch campaign to lobby against state-sanctioned torture
Human rights activists and lawyers banded together today to launch a campaign aimed at pressuring the government to sign the United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT).
BY MELISSA CHI
Friday June 26, 2015
01:45 PM GMT+8
KUALA LUMPUR, June 26 ― Human rights activists and lawyers banded together today to launch a campaign...
CPP Lawmakers Press Ahead With NGO Law
More than 100 protesters rallied outside the National Assembly on Tuesday morning as opposition lawmakers made an unsuccessful effort to block their ruling-party counterparts from pushing ahead with a contentious law to regulate the hundreds of NGOs in the country.
By Kuch Naren | June 24, 2015
More than 100 protesters...
PH’s Ed Legaspi, new ED of SEAPA
A FILIPINO with long and solid background on media freedom, human rights, and the political economy of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is the new executive director of the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA).
June 15, 2015
A FILIPINO with long and solid background on media freedom, human rights,...
Controversial NGO Law Goes to National Assembly for Debate
Despite widespread concern it could curtail pro-democracy and rights work in the country, a bill to regulate NGOs in Cambodia arrived at the National Assembly Tuesday, where it must be debated before its likely passage into law.
Neou Vannarin, VOA Khmer | 16 June 2015
PHNOM PENH— Despite widespread concern it...
Cambodia: HRW Letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen on the Proposed Trade Union Law
We are writing to urge that you immediately make public the latest draft of the proposed trade union law; consult with all stakeholders, including local and international unions and labor rights groups; and revise the bill to bring it in line with international labor rights standards.
Prime Minister Hun Sen
Royal...
Philippine government policy and practice defeat UN objective to eliminate killings
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and KARAPATAN Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights – Philippines (Karapatan ) welcome the General Assembly’s Resolution (A/HRC/RES/26/12) reaffirming the “need for effective action to combat and eliminate the abhorrent practice of extrajudicial” killings. The failure, if not inability, to hold the...
NGO law a ‘disaster’
A copy of the long-secret draft law on NGOs obtained yesterday seemingly confirms civil society’s longstanding fears that the legislation’s language could be used to hamper, rather than help, the Kingdom’s NGOs.
Wed, 10 June 2015 | Alice Cuddy and Taing Vida
A copy of the long-secret draft law on NGOs...
Rakhine State NGOs Object to Boat People in Myanmar
Thirty nongovernmental organizations issued a statement on Friday expressing concern about the nearly 1,000 boat people that are being held in temporary shelters in western Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state after being found adrift in the sea near the country last month.
2015-06-05
Thirty nongovernmental organizations issued a statement on Friday expressing...
Time to Revisit an ASEAN-EU FTA?
Much has changed since 2007, when FTA talks were first attempted.
By Ji Xianbai
June 03, 2015
On May 19, 2015, the European Union (EU) adopted a Joint Communication: The EU and ASEAN: a partnership with a strategic purpose. The communication calls for taking “trade relations with ASEAN to a different level...
