Tag: Freedom of Assembly / Association / Union
Myanmar’s Suspension of MSF’s Work in Arakan is Criminal
Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF), the Nobel Prize-winning charity group also known as Doctors Without Borders, have been asked by the Mynamar government to shut its operation inside Arakan.
The group has been operating in Burma (Myanmar) since 1992 under an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the Ministry of Health and...
WHAT THINKS EX-JUDGE THE PERAK SULTAN? Int’l human rights group & Suaram SLAM Karpal’s conviction
Paris, Kuala Lumpur – The Malaysian government must stop using colonial-era repressive laws to harass political opposition leaders, FIDH and its member organization SUARAM said today.
On February 21, 2014, the Kuala Lumpur High Court found Democratic Action Party (DAP) Chairman Karpal Singh guilty under Section 4(1) (b) of the...
WHO IS LYING? Comango denies Perkasa accusation it provoked the ALLAH fracas
The Coalition of Malaysian Human Rights NGO for the Universal Periodic Review process (Comango) has denied that it had provoked Muslim NGOs to cause a fracas at the Palace of Justice yesterday.
Referring to an Utusan Malaysia report, its spokesperson Yap Swee Seng said that the act of giving flowers,...
Democracy, Rights NGOs Face Tough Conditions, Report Finds
PHNOM PENH — NGOs working in democracy, human rights and transparency all say they face a lack of cooperation from Cambodian authorities, especially in the provinces, a new report finds.
The Cooperation Committee for Cambodia conducted research on Cambodia’s overall climate for civil society organizations, finding that those dealing in...
Myanmar is Simultaneously Expanding and Repressing Free Speech
Myanmar’s contradictions aren't hard to spot. Known also as Burma, the country is gravely poor yet remarkably rich in natural resources. Its supposedly civilian democracy is headed by a former general, a vestige of the military junta that ruled from 1962 to 2011. The government has relaxed political restrictions,...
Lao Christians Leave Buddhist-Majority Village Amid Tensions
Six Christian families have left their Buddhist-majority village in southern Laos following what rights groups say was pressure to renounce their faith, as local authorities say they are working to ease communal tensions and allow the families to return.
Officials in Savannakhet province said the families moved out of Phin...
UN blasts Rohingya’s exclusion from Myanmar census
The United Nations has expressed concern over the exclusion of Myanmar’s long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims from the country’s first census in decades.
On Wednesday, the UN accused Myanmar of deviating from its commitment that the census will be exercised in accordance with international standards and human rights principles.
In a statement, the...
Surface Tiamzon’s missing companion, rights group ask
MANILA – Human rights group Karapatan called on the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines to surface the companion of the arrested Tiamzon couple, who, the military claims are top ranking officials of the Communist Party of the Philippines.
Gary Aguilar Santos, according to Cristina...
Assemble peacefully without fear, Malaysians told
The public can now assemble without fear following a Court of Appeal ruling yesterday that a breach of a provision in the Peaceful Assembly Act (PAA) does not amount to an offence, human rights lawyers and lawmakers said.
They said the unanimous decision of the three-man bench led by judge...
STOP POLITICIZING: Cuepacs chief lambasted for May Day rally THREAT
JITRA - As Cuepacs president Azih Muda spoke of possible action against civil servants involved in the anti-Goods and Services Tax (GST) rally at Dataran Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur today, a former senior government servant lambasted him for making such a threat.
To Azih's statement that they...
