Tag: Rule of Law / Justice
Vo Van Ai sends Open Letter to the Vietnamese Government’s Delegation to the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of Vietnam
PARIS, 3 February 2014 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – In the run-up to the second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Vietnam at the United Nation’s Human Rights Council on Wednesday 5 February, Open letters from very different personalities have called on the Vietnamese delegation to the UPR to candidly admit its...
Gender-Based Violence in Cambodia: The Intersection of Rights and Poverty
To some, the trafficking, exploitation, and physical abuse of women and girls in developing countries are such obvious social problems that the solution seems simply to stop it through tighter laws and crackdowns in enforcement.
Yet news of a new report published the Phnom Penh Post reinforces a picture of...
Philippines: Death threats against Mr. Arthur “Jun” Agarado Sapanghari, Jr.
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in the Philippines.
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The Observatory has been informed by Task Force Detainees...
BURMA/MYANMAR: Ethnic indigenous Chin christians afraid to return home
A 1988 uprising against the Burmese military government left thousands of citizens dead and many parts of the country, including Chin, were heavily militarized. Like other ethnic communities in Myanmar, the Chin people bore the brunt of severe poverty and military rule, prompting many to flee across the 1,463km...
Cambodian Journalist Who Exposed Illegal Fishing Murdered
A journalist in Cambodia was beaten to death over the weekend following a series of articles he had written exposing illegal fishing, prompting calls from a local rights group for a probe into the murder amidst a “widespread culture of impunity” in the country.
Suon Chan, a 44-year-old reporter for...
PHILIPPINES: “Wheel of torture” symbolizes culture of torture impunity in the Philippines
UNITED AGAINST TORTURE COALITION (UATC)-PHILIPPINES
The existence of “wheel of torture” game at a Philippine National Police (PNP) detention facility in Biñan, Laguna where detainees are reportedly tortured by authorities and its discovery by the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHRP) last week only shows of what it...
Vietnam Prepares for UN Human Rights Review, Activists Lobby for Pressure
Representatives from the Vietnamese government will appear before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva Wednesday for a review of its human rights record amid mounting criticism that Hanoi does not tolerate opposition voices.
Rolando Gomez, spokesman for the council, told VOA’s Vietnamese service the Universal Periodic Review (UPR),...
Rights monitors slam Philippine mayor for murder threat
MANILA: Human rights activists in the Philippines expressed outrage on Tuesday at a mayor who told a parliamentary inquiry he would happily murder an alleged criminal, warning his threat fuelled the country’s infamous culture of impunity.
Rodrigo Duterte, a tough-talking politician nicknamed “The Punisher” , issued the warning in the...
SC gives probers access to papers that may identify Burgos abductor
MANILA, Philippines—The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed human rights investigators access to military documents that might lead to the identification of a male member of the military suspected of being the abductor of activist Jonas Burgos.
In the first of two issues the court resolved on Tuesday, it allowed the...
West denounces repression of bloggers, religions in Vietnam
GENEVA (Reuters) - Western countries on Wednesday denounced Vietnam's jailing of bloggers and curbs on the Internet and called on its Communist government to respect basic freedoms of worship and expression.
Britain's diplomat Ruth Tumer told the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council that her country regretted "recent trends to control...
