Tag: Rule of Law / Justice
Rights Group Slams ‘Rampant Impunity’ in Cambodia
A Cambodian rights group said Wednesday that impunity is on the rise in Cambodia, hitting out at the authorities for failing to resolve a number of high-profile killings and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Ahead of International Day to End Impunity on Saturday, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)...
Indonesia: Victims of human rights abuse to share their stories
The Coalition for Justice and Revelation of Truth (KKPK) will hold a five-day-public discussion featuring testimony from the victims of human right violations during the 1965-2005 period, a move that is intended to break the chain of violence in Indonesia by exposing the ongoing pattern of human rights violations...
Thai anti-government protesters storm ministry compound in Bangkok
Bangkok (CNN) -- Anti-government protesters in Thailand have stormed the offices of the country's finance ministry, as mass demonstrations raise political tensions to the highest level since the deadly unrest of 2010.
Anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, a former deputy prime minister under the previous Democrat-led government, led the group...
UN Asks Myanmar to Refund Citizenship Rights of Muslims
(GENEVA) - Third Committee of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, which is responsible for social, humanitarian affairs and human rights issues, asked Myanmar to refund citizenship rights of the Muslim minority.
The third Committee consensually approved a draft resolution concerning human rights violation in Myanmar. The Myanmar government was...
Myanmar gov’t: UN can’t force Rohingya citizenship
A Myanmar government spokesman says the country will not be pressured by a U.N. resolution calling on it to grant citizenship to members of the Muslim ethnic minority that identify themselves as Rohingya.
Presidential spokesman Ye Htut insisted on his Facebook page Thursday that the government does not recognize Rohingya...
Myanmar’s president pardons 69 political prisoners
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar’s president on Nov. 15 pardoned 69 political prisoners, including two grandsons of a former dictator, as part of a promise to free all such detainees by the end of the year.
Most of those newly freed are members of ethnic minorities, said Ye Aung, who...
Philippines Political Prisoner Struggling for Justice
Filipina human rights defender Zara Alvarez has been imprisoned for over one year in Philippine prisons. There is a growing Filipino and international movement for her freedom.
Alvarez, 32 years old, is a teacher by profession and a human rights and political activist. She was arrested on October 30, 2012...
Indonesia: Victims of human rights abuse break silence
“It was late at night in 1968 when a group of men barged into my boarding house and pointed their guns at me. They shouted that I was a member of the PKI ,” Yogyakarta native Christina Sumarmiyati, 68, said.
Christina’s voice broke as she went into the details of...
Fighting land-grabs in Cambodia; A justice of sorts
In the past decade hundreds of thousands of Cambodians have been pushed off the land they occupy. In the countryside, it is often to make way for rubber plantations developed by government cronies, including Chinese and Vietnamese ones. In the booming capital of Phnom Penh, the government has seized...
Thai Foreign Ministry says actions of protesters illegal
Bangkok — The Thai Foreign Ministry has told the international community that the actions of protesters in Thailand, in which government offices have been stormed and occupied, is illegal, undemocratic, and threatens national security.
The Ministry has sent letters explaining the current political situation to the United Nations, the UN...
