Tag: Human Rights Defenders
Laos Tries But Fails to Make ASEAN NGOs Ignore Plight of Missing Activist
Lao activists are crying foul at a stealthy, failed attempt by their government to delete the disappearance of the country's most prominent civil society leader from the list of regional human rights issues to be discussed on the sidelines of the Association of? Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in...
Myanmar: Prosecute perpetrators, not human rights defenders
Myanmar authorities should stop prosecuting and threatening journalists and human rights defenders for reporting and speaking out about human rights abuses, Fortify Rights has said.
by admin · 18 March 2015
Myanmar authorities should stop prosecuting and threatening journalists and human rights defenders for reporting and speaking out about human rights...
Unidentified assailants attack Vietnamese human rights lawyer at end of house arrest
According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), Vietnamese lawyer Nguyen Van Dai was threatened by “thugs” outside his home on March 5. The next day, the same people attacked his house and destroyed part of the door.
16 March 2015 | by VNHRDs • Nguyen Van Dai
Christiantoday | Mar 16, 2015
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Laos: Open letter from Amnesty International directors to Sombath Somphone
Two years after the disappearance of Sombath Somphone on the evening of 15 December 2012, the directors from across the global Amnesty International movement write to express their deepest hopes for his safe return.
Two years after the disappearance of Sombath Somphone on the evening of 15 December 2012, the...
Missed Opportunities: Recommendations for investigating the disappearance of Sombath Somphone
In the report, Missed Opportunities: Recommendations for Investigating the Disappearance of Sombath Somphone, which was co-authored by Michael Taylor QPM, a leading international investigator, the ICJ noted that despite the passage of two years since Sombath Somphone’s apparent enforced disappearance on December 15, 2012, very little information about the...
“We are not afraid” – Land rights defenders: attacked for confronting unbridled development
This Report shows the daily struggle conducted by land rights defenders, often confronted to “economic predators” greedily supportive of unbridled development. Land rights defenders often live in isolated areas, far from actors of protection. These factors facilitate acts of violence against them, the level of violence being proportional to...
