Tag: Freedom of Assembly / Association / Union
Cambodian Security Forces Clash With Protesters
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—Cambodian security forces clashed with hundreds of workers and opposition supporters who took to the streets in defiance of a ban on protests in the capital on Sunday, leaving at least 10 people injured.
The skirmishes occurred as military police and riot-control officers tried to stop protesters from...
‘Communist’ Still a Dirty Word in Indonesia
JAKARTA — Nearly 50 years after an anti-communist purge that left at least 500,000 Indonesians dead, anti-communist fervor is still heated.
Herman Koto, an Indonesian gangster and paramilitary leader, describes how he’d love to get his hands on some communist women.
“If they’re pretty, I’d rape them all,” he says. As...
Cambodia: New deadlock but old tactics, analysts say
Ahead of today’s hearing on Cambodia’s record at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, opposition figures and analysts said the ruling Cambodian People’s Party has reverted to familiar tactics of post-election suppression.
Analysts yesterday said that the breaking up of Cambodia National Rescue Party-led protests at Freedom Park and...
Vietnam Urged To Improve Dismal Human Rights Record
New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW), on Friday urged all United Nations member-states to press Vietnam to make verifiable commitments to improve its dismal human rights record at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva last February.
The UPR is a process all UN member states undergo every...
Cambodia: Garment Factories Thwarting Unions
The Cambodian government should ensure that garment factories stop intimidating and threatening workers seeking to form unions and assert their labor rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should cease banning public demonstrations and using security forces to disperse worker protests, and instead enforce the country’s labor laws.
Cambodian...
Mixed message to UN
A call for the Cambodian government to lift its controversial ban on public assembly is among 34 such recommendations it has chosen to defer in the wake of last week’s second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of its human rights situation.
The UN on Saturday released a list of the 206...
Thailand election distracts from disastrous south
With Thailand having just gone to the polls for an historic election, in which some 6 million voters were unable to cast ballots, international media have zeroed in on the protests raging on the streets of Bangkok, where an emergency decree has been in place for about two weeks.
Given...
What senators’ silence on Duterte threat means
MANILA, Philippines – Rodrigo Duterte, the mayor of Mindanao’s Davao City, has a novel strategy to address the problem of rice smuggling: murder the suspected smugglers. At a public hearing of the Philippine senate this week, Duterte boasted that if a notorious suspected smuggler tried to do business in...
Investigation commission for Du Chee Yar Tan incident to report at the end of this month
An investigation commission for Du Chee Yar Tan village incident was formed with ten commission members on 6 February with the order from Presidential Office. It was published in government owned newspapers on 7 February.
Chairperson of Myanmar Red Cross Association Dr. Thar Hla Shwe acted as chairperson of the...
Violence Ensues In Thailand as Vote Stands
UNITED NATIONS (TRNS) – Amidst the growing violence, The United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR), said in a statement that they have “been alarmed to see individuals at protest sites with weapons”. They are urging all sides in the conflict to abstain from violence and carrying weapons, as many...
