Tag: Migrant Rights
Persecution of the Rohingya Muslims: Is Genocide Occurring in Myanmar’s Rakhine State? – A Legal Analysis [Fortify Rights]
This legal analysis considers whether the ongoing attacks on and persecution of the Rohingya Muslim population in Myanmar constitute genocide, as defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention)
This legal analysis prepared for Fortify Rights.
This legal analysis considers whether...
The Rohingya Crisis and the Risk of Atrocities in Myanmar: An ASEAN Challenge and Call to Action
The report represents a call to action. It demonstrates that the escalating human rights crisis in Myanmar and Southeast Asia more broadly is exacerbated by ASEAN’s failure to take effective action.
The longstanding persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar has led to
the highest outflow of asylum seekers by...
NGOs’ efforts vital in fight against human trafficking
“Singaporeans, including me even two years ago, don’t think human trafficking can exist here ... after the work we do in Afghanistan, Cambodia, you realise that it is so easy to traffick someone,” said Mr Chiam. “Voluntary welfare organisations like us will work with each other, and work with...
Thailand Disputes Its Human-Trafficking Designation
President Obama has 90 days from the release of a State Department report to decide whether to impose sanctions on the ‘tier 3’ country
By Nopparat Chaichalearmmongkol
Updated July 28, 2015 12:50 p.m. ET
BANGKOK—Thailand expressed frustration at being left among the world’s worst countries in a U.S. report on how nations...
Australian Leader Urged to Reveal What Happened to Vietnamese Refugee Boat
Australian officials are being accused of breaking international law after 42 Vietnamese asylum seekers were allegedly sent back to Vietnam after arriving in Australian waters by boat.
A small wooden vessel was spotted off of Australia’s northwest coast last week, the BBC reports. It was apparently carrying the asylum seekers,...
Komnas HAM signs agreement with UNHCR
The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) has signed a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that will allow them to work together in improving advocacy and human rights protection for refugees and asylum seekers currently in Indonesia.
Dylan Amirio, The Jakarta...
US Upgrades Malaysia in Trafficking Report: Boost for TPP, Blow to Rights?
Washington argues that Malaysia has made significant efforts to improve its record.
by Prashanth Parameswaran
July 28, 2015
The United States upgraded Malaysia in its much-awaited annual report on human trafficking Monday in a move that paves the way for the completion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) but will be read by...
Backpackers’ murder trial focuses on DNA evidence
The final hours of two British backpackers killed on a Thai resort island last year were tracked by more than a dozen security cameras, a court was told during the resumption of the trial of two Myanmar men accused of their murder.
22 July 2015
Agencies/Koh Samui, Thailand
The final hours of...
Love in Exile: a Cinematic Pilgrimage to Watch Tan Pin Pin’s Censored To Singapore, with Love
In September of 2014, filmmaker Tan Pin Pin found herself at the center of an intense national debate when Singapore’s government banned public screenings of her feature To Singapore, with Love, a documentary about the country’s political exiles.
By Kelly Leow on July 13, 2015
In September of 2014, filmmaker Tan...
Thailand Defends Its Decision to Forcibly Return Uighur Migrants to China
“Thailand has worked with China and Turkey to solve the Uighur Muslim problem,” Colonel Weerachon Sukhondhapatipak, deputy spokesman for the Thai government, told reporters Thursday. “We have sent them back to China after verifying their nationality.”
Charlie Campbell @charliecamp6ell
July 10, 2015
The move has been condemned by the U.N., Washington and...
