Tag: Human Rights Defenders
Philippines: Killing of land rights activist Ms. Elisa Lascoña Tulid
The Observatory has been informed by Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) about the killing of Ms. Elisa Lascoña Tulid, a human rights defender in the agrarian reform sector and a leader of the peasant group Samahan ng Magsasaka sa Barangay Tala at Camflora, in Sitio Kumbenyo, Barangay...
LAOS: AFAD calls on the UNWGEID for more actions to surface Sombath Somphone
Mugiyanto, Chairperson of Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) calls on the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (UNWGEID) for more serious efforts in addressing the case of Sombath Somphone based on new information it submitted indicating state involvement in his disappearance.
AFAD got information from reliable sources...
BURMA: Free all human rights defenders and stop ongoing arbitrary arrests and imprisonment
Paris-Geneva, November 20, 2013. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT joint programme, welcomes the latest release of human rights defenders who were among the political prisoners detained in Burma/Myanmar, and now urges the Government to immediately and unconditionally release all those who remain detained...
Nine More Months in Jail for Unrelenting Myanmar Activist
An imprisoned Myanmar activist has been jailed for nine more months as he fights off charges in at least seven townships in the commercial capital Yangon for protesting against a controversial public assembly law and against land grabs.
Htin Kyaw had already been convicted in some of the townships and...
Cambodian activist released on bail
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia’s highest court released an activist on bail Friday after she served more than a year in prison on charges widely condemned as trumped up to silence a government critic.
The Supreme Court sent Yorm Bopha’s case back to the Appeals Court for further investigation and...
Cambodia: After prison, Bopha undeterred
Shelving any thoughts that 14 months in prison had deterred her from protesting, Yorm Bopha rushed to the capital’s Borei Keila community yesterday morning to try to stop authorities from forcing evictees from an abandoned building.
Bopha was one of about 10 Boeung Kak activists called on to help after...
Aung San Suu Kyi is turning a blind eye to human rights in the name of politics
Burmese politician and international celebrity Aung San Suu Kyi flew into Sydney yesterday to begin a brief tour of Australia, during which time she will meet the prime minister and other members of the government.
If her recent visits to Europe are anything to go by, the Nobel laureate’s arrival...
Malaysia: drop criminal charges against human rights defender Lena Hendry for screening “No Fire Zone” film
The ICJ is calling on the Malaysian Government to immediately drop the criminal charge against human rights defender Lena Hendry for screening the film ‘No Fire Zone: the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka.’
The case has been fixed for case management and the defence lawyers filed an application to set...
Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to a packed Sydney Opera House
Amid a sea of brightly-coloured silks, tunics, academic gowns, and a smattering of headscarves, Myanmarese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi told a packed Sydney Opera House audience on Wednesday night of her ambition to become the country's president in 2015.
But she also spoke of the many constitutional road-blocks...
The Philippines: The human-rights champion
AS a teenager during the martial-law years, Jose Manuel Diokno would go with his father—the late Sen. Pepe Diokno—to the military court in Camp Aguinaldo, where he was first exposed to handling human-rights cases. “Even then, I was already decided I would study law,” the now 53-year-old Diokno says.
To...
