Tag: Rule of Law / Justice
Thai police pursue Reuters over Rohingya story published by Australian journalist Alan Morison
Thai police are seeking to prosecute the Reuters news agency for defaming the Thai navy in a story published by an Australian journalist in Phuket.
Police were asked to prosecute Australian journalist Alan Morison and one of his colleagues last month over a piece on the navy's treatment of the...
Migrant Care Condemns Indonesian Workers Shooting in Malaysia
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - An Indonesian non-profit organization named Migrant Care condemned shooting of three Indonesian migrant workers from East Nusa Tenggara in Malaysia in January 11. It has urged the government to take diplomatic steps such as sending protest note to the Malaysian government, downgrading diplomatic relations by withdrawing ambassador...
Indonesia: EU Parliament Should Challenge Papua Abuses
(Brussels) – The European Parliament’s hearing on human rights in Papua in Indonesia is an important opportunity to raise concerns and press for improvements in the area’s grave human rights situation, Human Rights Watch said today. The hearing of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights on West Papua...
Indonesia: Ensuring no one disappears again
The meeting of the House of Representatives’ Commission I with the Foreign Ministry on Dec. 4, 2013 on the ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances (Anti-Disappearance Convention) was an anticlimax.
Human rights NGOs and human rights defenders, particularly the victims, have long...
Malaysia: COA upholds High Court verdict on unlawful arrest
PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal today upheld a High Court decision which found the police liable for the unlawful arrest of five human rights lawyers and an activist who took part in the Human Rights Day Walk in Kuala Lumpur in 2007, and ordered them to pay RM10,000 in...
Malaysia: Government’s appeal over Rights Day 2007 arrests thrown out
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 20 — The Court of Appeal today upheld an earlier decision that the arrests of five lawyers and an activist during a 2007 demonstration for human rights to be unlawful.
The court also dismissed challenges filed by the lawyers over the same matter, and remained silent on...
Global rights group says Malaysia’s human rights marked by ‘two Najibs’
An international rights watchdog has accused Putrajaya of backtracking on its human rights promises after its electoral setback in the 13th general election last May, despite unveiling a slew of reforms before the polls.
“Malaysia in 2013 was marked by a ‘tale of two Najibs’ – promising legal reforms before...
Vietnam set to ratify convention on disabled rights
The information was unveiled in the National Report on Human Rights under the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
Vietnam earlier signed the CRPD in 2008 and issued the Law on Persons with Disabilities two years later.
From 2010-2013, a total of 13 regulations on the rights of disabled...
Thailand: Rights Abuses Go Unchecked
(Bangkok) – The government of Thailand made little progress over the past year in resolving persistent human rights problems in the country, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2014.
“Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s promises to bring national reconciliation and justice to victims of the 2010 violence have...
A Promise Proves Not a Promise in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—A recent report by a prominent human-rights group said Malaysia backtracked on promised legal reforms and restored repressive laws following an election that saw the ruling coalition return to power significantly weakened.
In an annual report that assesses that state of human rights around the globe, New York-based...
