The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) wrote a letter to the President Lee Myung-bak on 7 May 2009, presenting facts of arrest of journalists critical of the government. The letter, below, also notes increasing pressure on media in the country since March this year. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) wrote a letter to the [ Read more ]

Hundreds of the Indigenous Khmer Krom people organised a demonstration in Geneva, Switzerlannd, and Vietnam on 7-8 May 2009 to call for the end of discrimination agaisnt them. The date coincides with the Universal Periodic Review of Vietnam at the United Nations Human Rights council. Hundreds of the Indigenous Khmer Krom people organised a demonstration [ Read more ]

The overdue report that the Philippine government submitted to the United Nations Committee against Torture is "their long tale of lies", said the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) , a FORUM-ASIA member. In a statement issued on 28 April 2009, they said, "this government can break free from the culture of impunity by [ Read more ]

Three FORUM-ASIA members in India – ADHIKAR, Rural Development Society (RDS- LRSA) and People’s Watch – expressed concerns over detention of Binayak Sen, a well-known human rights defender and paediatrician, on 18 May 2009. Two years after his arrest, he's still detained and never had trial.  Three FORUM-ASIA members in India – ADHIKAR, Rural Development [ Read more ]

The Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) issued a 100-page report on 6 May 2009, presenting how a 180-mile gas pipeline in Southern Burma causes "systematic, shocking and ongoing" human rights violations. The abuses include confiscation of land, militarisation, rape, child labour and more. Below is an abstract of the news story from the foundation. [ Read more ]

Nine people were killed during protests on 11 April 2009, following the murder of three Baloch leaders in Pakistan. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), a FORUM-ASIA member, also confirmed the case. The news below is from the E-Newsletter of Religious Minorities for peace and harmony in Pakistan issued on 5 May. Nine people were [ Read more ]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) wrote a letter to the President Lee Myung-bak on 7 May 2009, presenting facts of arrest of journalists critical of the government. The letter, below, also notes increasing pressure on media in the country since March this year. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) wrote a letter to the [ Read more ]

Hundreds of the Indigenous Khmer Krom people organised a demonstration in Geneva, Switzerlannd, and Vietnam on 7-8 May 2009 to call for the end of discrimination agaisnt them. The date coincides with the Universal Periodic Review of Vietnam at the United Nations Human Rights council. Hundreds of the Indigenous Khmer Krom people organised a demonstration [ Read more ]

The overdue report that the Philippine government submitted to the United Nations Committee against Torture is "their long tale of lies", said the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) , a FORUM-ASIA member. In a statement issued on 28 April 2009, they said, "this government can break free from the culture of impunity by [ Read more ]

Three FORUM-ASIA members in India – ADHIKAR, Rural Development Society (RDS- LRSA) and People’s Watch – expressed concerns over detention of Binayak Sen, a well-known human rights defender and paediatrician, on 18 May 2009. Two years after his arrest, he's still detained and never had trial.  Three FORUM-ASIA members in India – ADHIKAR, Rural Development [ Read more ]