Tag: Regional Human Rights System
CSOs to report to UN on human rights
Civic society organisations (CSOs) are going to compile a report on Myanmar’s human rights situation and send it to the United Nations for the first time.
Published on Monday, 09 February 2015 08:37
The report will emphasise freedom of expression, the role of groups protecting human rights, farmland and development, the...
Citing Umno link, Pakatan says Shafee shouldn’t chair ASEAN human rights committee
Opposition party members have asked that Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah step down as chairman of an ASEAN intergovernmental committee, due to his close relations to Umno.
BY MAYURI MEI LIN
Published: February 16, 2015 01:49 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 16 — Opposition party members have asked that Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee...
UN rights expert urges Indonesia to halt executions for drug-related offenses
Despite international pleas and the UN's open criticism, the Indonesian government executed six drug smugglers by firing squad in January. UN rights experts continue to urge authorities in Southeast Asia to place a moratorium on executions for drug-related offenses, and encourage a move towards the complete abolition of...
ASEAN’s Transnational Crime Networks
New infrastructure within the region may be facilitating cross-border crime.
By Philip Heijmans
February 17, 2015
Regional connectivity projects being implemented ahead of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Community scheduled for this year could have the adverse effect of making human trafficking and drug smuggling easier for transnational crime...
LRCT lead ASEAN for One ASEAN Labour Standard.
The 2nd Regional Consultation on Prospects Challenges to Developing an ASEAN Standard and Mechanism for the Rights of Workers
By Natchanaht Thitipak, 17 February 2015
The 2nd Regional Consultation on Prospects Challenges to Developing an ASEAN Standards and Mechanisms for the Rights of Workers is co-organised by the Law Reform Commission...
Opinion: The ASEAN Way and Human Rights
ASEAN’s evolving human rights regime is shaped by three competing discourses. These are the human rights policies of national governments, advocacy positions promoted by both global and local civil society and the call for alignment with international human rights standards and procedures by inter-governmental organizations
Government views water down rights...
Asia-Pacific parliamentarians to meet in Manila on human rights issues
More than 100 parliamentarians, representatives of human rights institutes, and members of civil society groups from the Asia-Pacific region will gather in Manila next week for a two-day seminar on the protection and promotion of human rights, Senate President Franklin Drilon said Friday.
Maila Ager | INQUIRER.net 1:37 PM |...
The Helsinki peace accord, an ASEAN asset
It is indeed a historic coincidence that the commemoration of a decade of the Helsinki peace accord for Aceh takes place just two days prior to the commemoration of the 70th year of Indonesian independence and a week after the 48th commemoration of ASEAN.
Hafid Abbas, Jakarta | Opinion |...
Rights Groups, Wife of Missing Lao Activist Renew Calls for Progress in Case
Human rights groups and the wife of a prominent civil rights leader who disappeared nearly three years ago have called on the Lao government to adequately investigate the incident and provide information about the case’s progress.
2015-08-31
Human rights groups and the wife of a prominent civil rights leader who disappeared...
Thailand: Member states must use UN review to demand key human rights commitments
UN member states must use the next Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Thailand to demand key human rights commitments from the government, FIDH, its member organization Union for Civil Liberty (UCL), and its partner organization Internet Law Reform Dialogue (iLaw) said today.
Paris, Bangkok, 22 September 2015: UN member states...
