Tag: Regional Human Rights System
Maritime movements of the Rohingya and recommendations to improve human rights protection for Rohingya refugees [APPRN Submission to AICHR]
In partnership with ALTSEAN Burma, Burma Partnership, FORUM-Asia, and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, APRRN has submitted to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) an analysis of the situation of maritime movements of Rohingya refugees in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, including recommendations to...
“A People-Centered ASEAN Community: Making It Happen” – ACSC/APF 2015 Conference Outcome Statement
Given the apathetic and dismal response by ASEAN to the interventions and recommendations of the ASEAN civil society in the last 10 years of engagement, we are compelled to question the meaningfulness of the rhetoric on people-oriented and people-centred ASEAN. The impunity of recalcitrant ASEAN member states compound the...
The Future of Human Rights in ASEAN: Public Call for Independence and Protection Mandates
This report describes and assesses the performance of ASEAN’s two main human rights mechanisms, the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) during 2014.
This report describes and assesses the performance of ASEAN’s...
Annual Report of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (2015)
The AICHR is pleased to submit the Annual Report 2015 for the consideration of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting (AMM) in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the AICHR (Article 6.6). This reporting period (July 2014 - 2015) is marked by three special occasions for the AICHR. First...
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...
What the Trans-Pacific Partnership Means for Southeast Asia
The trade deal would be a giant step for the four Southeast Asian countries currently in talks.
By Hunter Marston | July 27, 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) made it through its toughest hurdle in the U.S. Congress last month, after the House and Senate both voted in favor of granting...
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...
Revelation: Burmese Officials’ refutation UN report, Rohingya Rights Violation
Revelation about the violation of human rights of Rohingya and other ethnic minorities which are being severely carried out and are tactically denied against UN reports by brutal militarized President Thein Sein’s criminal officials and one of major investors in Arakan —India
Posted By: Ibrahim SahPosted date: July 08, 2015In:...
Climate change is a matter of human rights, agrees UN
Geneva-based Human Rights Council adopts resolution to help world’s most vulnerable countries in face of global warming
Last updated on 6 July 2015, 5:13 pm
By Sébastien Duyck in Geneva
Last Thursday the Human Rights Council sent a strong signal to the ongoing climate negotiations by adopting by consensus a new resolution...
