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Vietnam report highlights human rights achievements

Vietnam’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Report in the second cycle was reviewed at a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) on February 5 in Geneva, Switzerland. The report stressed the achievements Vietnam has recorded in respecting, protecting and promoting human rights as well as the implementation of...

PRESS STATEMENT – OHCHR REGIONAL OFFICE FOR SOUTH EAST ASIA

(04 February 2014, Bangkok) The United Nations Human Rights Office for South East Asia (OHCHR) today expressed concern about a confrontation between anti-government and pro-election groups on 1 February near the Laksi District Office which involved the use of firearms. The incident reportedly left eight individuals injured. Since beginning monitoring...

UN Issues Human Rights Recommendations for Vietnam

The United Nations Human Rights Council has issued a list of 227 recommendations for Vietnam, including calls to abolish the death penalty, improve freedom of religion and end harassment of government critics. Vietnam's record came under fire from several countries during its review Wednesday in Geneva.  The recommendations were released...

Poverty Wages Unraveling Cambodia’s Garment Industry

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 6 2014 (IPS) - Cambodia’s garment industry is regularly plagued with strikes and protests. But when armed security forces opened fire on striking workers in the capital city of Phnom Penh on Jan. 3, killing five and injuring dozens, it suddenly became clear that this was...

14th Meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights

Yangon, Myanmar, 8 – 11 February 2014. The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) convened its first meeting in 2014, under the chairmanship of H.E. U Kyaw Tint Swe, the Representative of Myanmar to the AICHR, from 8 to 11 February 2014 in Yangon, Myanmar. Building on the...

Final visit for UN human rights envoy Ojea Quintana

The United Nations special envoy on human rights in Myanmar, Tomas Ojea Quintana, is due to arrive in Yangon on February 14 for his ninth and last official visit to the country since he was appointed to the position in May 2008. In a statement released in Geneva on February...

Journalists ‘crucial agents’ of ASEAN Community 2015

Southeast Asian journalists have been entrusted with the herculean task of helping ASEAN nations get better prepared ahead of the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015, an international discussion was told. Speakers at the Confederation of ASEAN Journalists (CAJ) workshop in Palembang, South Sumatra, agreed that media...

SE Asia Legitimacy in Crisis

Thailand is not alone. Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia all face rising questions over future of democracy. If no one agrees to the rules, it’s hard to play the game. This is increasingly true in Southeast Asia’s various democratic or semi-democratic states, most acutely now in Thailand, but the dynamic is...

First woman 2-star general heads newly-formed human-rights panel

MANILA, Philippines–The former first woman two-star general in the history of the Philippine National Police is now the head of the newly-formed human-rights claims panel. The ex-PNP Directorate for Police Community Relations (DPCR) director Lina Castillo Sarmiento was appointed by President Benigno Aquino III as chief executive of the nine-member...

Review of ASEAN human rights mechanism begins

A review of a controversial ASEAN human rights commission got underway last week but activists say they remain sceptical that Myanmar can use it chairmanship in 2014 to strengthen the body. Regional officials gathered at ParkRoyal Hotel in Yangon from February 8-11 to review the terms of reference of the...