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HRC55 JOINT CIVIL SOCIETY SIDE EVENT THE ROLE OF DEFENDERS IN FOSTERING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR ATROCITY CRIMES Wednesday 6 March 13:00 – 14:00 pm (CET) Room XXV, Palais des Nations – Geneva Language: English / Arabic At a time of increasing conflicts, the root causes of which include repression and human rights abuses, respect for human [ Read more ]
by Hafizullah Saeedi This article was originally published on KabulNow. __________________________________________________________________ The single most important thing that the United Nations and the international community can do to counter the Taliban is to genuinely listen to the people of Afghanistan including women, minorities, youth, civil society, and the diaspora. Let the people of Afghanistan drive the [ Read more ]
The Civil Society Organisations Coalition for Humanitarian Support for Palestine appreciates the stance and actions of the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs led by Dra. Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi, LL.M., who continues to position Indonesia as a country that does not support Israel’s genocidal actions against the Palestinian people. We applaud the Ministry’s firm commitment [ Read more ]
Written by: The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) Cambodia is a constitutional, liberal, and multiparty democracy. However, its human rights situation is continuously deteriorating. In a socio-political climate where opposition voices are stifled, civic space is continuously shrinking, and the most fundamental of freedoms are trampled, it feels premature to be talking about [ Read more ]
(Bangkok, 22 February 2024) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and CIVICUS are deeply concerned over the intensifying regression of Thailand’s civic space. We are calling on the Thai Government to do more in upholding fundamental freedoms including freedom of expression, press freedom, and freedom of peaceful assembly. On 8 February [ Read more ]
The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) strongly condemns the forced conscription of Myanmar youth as ordered by the military junta on 10 February 2024. The People’s Military Service Law requires young men ages 18 to 35 and women ages 18 to 27 to serve for up to two years in the military, with possible [ Read more ]
(Bangkok, 19 February 2024) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and CIVICUS call on the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to dismiss the politically motivated defamation lawsuit against Soeng Senkaruna, deputy head of the Human Rights and Land Rights Section and Senior Human Rights Investigator of the Cambodian Human Rights and Development [ Read more ]
(Bangkok/Jakarta, 13 February 2024)—Dubbed as the world’s ‘biggest democracy,’ Indonesia is set to hold its general elections on 14 February 2024. Indonesian civil society organisations, however, are concerned whether their beloved country is truly deserving of such a title given the problems surrounding the upcoming elections, including issues of nepotism, abuse of power, and electoral [ Read more ]
