Tag: Rule of Law / Justice
Burma’s Persecuted Minority Can’t Even Get A Band Aid Now
Not only is the Rohingya Muslim minority of Myanmar (Burma) being persecuted, it’s also deprived of much-needed medical supplies that can help heal the physical wounds from the ethnic genocide that has been carried out against them for about two years now.
International aid group “Doctors Without Borders” (aka in...
Myanmar Panel Rejects Claims of Rohingya Killings, Recommends Citizenship
A Myanmar government commission investigating allegations of recent violence in volatile Rakhine state has totally rejected U.N. claims that dozens of Rohingya Muslims had been killed but highlighted a need for the stateless group to be granted citizenship to ease any potential violence.
The panel said its investigations did not...
A Private Little War: Muslim Insurgency In Southern Thailand Rages, Ignored By Outside World
The Thai government says it will lift the state of emergency in Bangkok nearly two months after it was imposed to stamp out protests that have rocked the country for months. The demonstrators have been agitating to remove Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from power, saying she is merely a...
Christians, minorities UNDER THREAT in Sunni Malaysia, Suaram & Aliran tell United Nations
Geneva - SUARAM and Aliran have told the UN Human Rights Council that Christianity and other minority religions in Malaysia are increasingly under siege as right-wing Islamist groups threaten, with apparent impunity, the constitutional right of all Malaysians to freely practice their chosen faith. The Malaysian rights-advocacy groups made...
Start with schools to develop open approach to foreign workers: Maruah
Foreign workers in Singapore are here to stay, and there is a need to develop a healthy, open approach towards these workers, said president of human rights group Maruah on day 14 of the Committee of Inquiry (COI) hearing into last December's Little India riot.
SINGAPORE: Foreign workers in Singapore...
Vietnam hails UN’s human rights promotion
Ambassador Nguyen Trung Thanh, Vietnamese permanent representative to the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation and other international organisations based in Geneva, Switzerland, offered the praise during discussions with special UN rapporteurs on the occasion of the UNHRC’s 25th session, taking place throughout March.
Together they talked about issues surrounding...
Investigation team accuses media, INGOs of inflaming Rakhine conflict
An investigation team appointed by the government has refuted allegations that up to 48 Muslims were killed in northern Rakhine State’s Maungdaw township in January and accused the international community of inflaming tensions.
Commission head Dr Tha Hla Shwe said at a press conference on March 11 that the team...
Human rights report highlights government failings
UNITED Nations special rapporteur Tomás Quintana has slammed the government for failing to investigate allegations of the torture and mistreatment of prisoners, including by the Tatmadaw, in his latest report on the country’s human rights situation.
In a copy of his report dated March 12, Mr Quintana also focused on...
Malaysian politics and the law: Long arms
SHOCK has turned to anger after two court rulings in the space of a few days in effect suspended, if not finished, the careers of two of Malaysia’s most prominent opposition politicians. First, on March 7th, the veteran leader, Anwar Ibrahim, of the opposition’s alliance, Pakatan Rakyat (PR), had...
Burma’s Ethnic Persecution is State Policy
Burma has enjoyed a remarkable several years of economic and political opening, but it is now also suffering a far darker development—serious ethnic violence. Coordinated arson attacks and periodic massacres in the remote Rakhine State have flattened entire villages and left hundreds of Rohingya men, women and children dead...
