Tag: Rule of Law / Justice
[END OF MISSION STATEMENT] Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia: Professor Rhona Smith
“The Cambodia of 2016 is very different from the Cambodia of 1991,” says Special Rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, Prof. Rhona Smith, this evening. “The progress and development is well worth celebrating, however imperfect aspects of that progress may be. The time for the Government to blame the...
Going backwards: The death penalty in Southeast Asia [FIDH Report]
Over the past year, Southeast Asia has witnessed significant setbacks with regard to the abolition of the death penalty, FIDH said in a new report published today, on the occasion of the 14th World Day Against the Death Penalty.
The report, titled “Going backwards: The death penalty in Southeast Asia,”...
Moving toward Decent Sex Work: Decent Work and Exploitation in Thailand (Sex Worker Community Research)
In 2016, Thai society is more concerned with addressing exploitation, reducing corruption and honouring the rights of the child than punishing the buying and selling sex. Most of Thai society may well consider exchanging sex for money to be immoral. However, we propose that the breach of some of...
[ISCI Report] Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar
ISIC’s report analyses the persecution of the Rohingya against the six stages of genocide outlined by Daniel Feierstein: stigmatisation (and dehumanisation); harassment, violence and terror; isolation and segregation; systematic weakening; mass annihilation; and finally symbolic enactment involving the removal of the victim group from the collective history. The report...
Half Empty: Burma’s political parties and their human rights commitments [FIDH]
This report, based on a survey of the human rights commitments of Burma's political parties, found that parties generally favored actions aimed at tackling critical issues that gave a negative impacts on human rights. However, in several of those instances, the report shows that parties failed to identify and...
Persecution of the Rohingya Muslims: Is Genocide Occurring in Myanmar’s Rakhine State? – A Legal Analysis [Fortify Rights]
This legal analysis considers whether the ongoing attacks on and persecution of the Rohingya Muslim population in Myanmar constitute genocide, as defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention)
This legal analysis prepared for Fortify Rights.
This legal analysis considers whether...
Cambodia: Drop Prosecution of Rights Defender
Cambodian authorities should drop the prosecution of a human rights defender who raised concerns about the conduct of the judiciary in a land dispute case, Human Rights Watch said today.
July 29, 2015
Free Expression Includes Right to Criticize Judicial Conduct
(New York) – Cambodian authorities should drop the prosecution of a...
DFA, DOJ officials to meet with Indon execs over Mary Jane Veloso case
Officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and Department of Justice (DOJ) are scheduled to meet with their Indonesian counterparts on July 29 to discuss developments in the cases filed in the Philippines against the recruiters of Mary Jane Veloso, it was learned.
By: InterAksyon.com
July 28, 2015 2:23 PM
InterAksyon.com
The...
Myanmar: Prisoners of conscience released in amnesty but scores remain behind bars
The release of at least 11 prisoners of conscience in a mass prisoner amnesty in Myanmar today is a step in the right direction, but authorities must immediately clear the country’s jails of the scores of peaceful activists who still remain behind bars, Amnesty International said.
30 July 2015, 16:08...
