Tag: Regional Human Rights System
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...
Joint call on Human Rights Council to establish special rapporteur on right to privacy
Today, on behalf of 92 human rights organisations around the world, an oral statement was delivered before the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling on the Council to establish a UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy
IFEX Saturday 14th March, 2015
This statement was originally published on privacyinternational.org on...
FIDH Oral Statement on Burma/Myanmar at the 28th Session of the Human Rights Council
Despite President Thein Sein’s promise to free all political prisoners, we regret that Burma/Myanmar continues to hold dozens of them behind bars – and their number is steadily rising. We demand the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners.
Mr. President, Madam Special Rapporteur,
FIDH welcomes your report, which reminds...
The ASEAN Human Rights Declaration: A Legal Analysis
This publication provides a legal analysis of the AHRD, which is intended to assess the extent to which it is consistent with international law and ASEAN Member States’ existing international legal obligations. It assumes that ASEAN will eventually develop a regional human rights convention similar to the American, African...
Four Years On and Still Treading Water: A Report on the Performance of the ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism in 2013
This is the fourth report on the ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism prepared by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and the Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacy – Task Force on ASEAN and Human Rights (SAPA TFAHR) since the establishment of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human...
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar – on 69th Session of UN General Assembly (A/69/398)
The present report sets out the Special Rapporteur's preliminary key areas of focus and reccomendation aimed at contributing to Myanmar's efforts toward respecting, protecting and promoting human rights and achieving democratization, national reconciliation and development.
The present report sets out the Special Rapporteur's preliminary key areas of focus and reccomendation...
Joint Communiqué 47th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
Joint Communiqué of the 47th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, 8 August 2014
Open Letter to the 47 th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting on the Review of the Terms of Reference of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
The letter open letter is submitted to the 47th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting and Endorsed by 58 Organizations/Networks
Thai Civil Society Network Submission to AICHR on the Review of AICHR ToR (by Article))
This submission is the detailed submission (by article) from the Thai civil society in the review of the terms of reference of the AICHR.
This submission is the detailed submission (by article) from the Thai civil society in the review of the terms of reference of the AICHR.
