Globe International, a Mongolian NGO has sought to evaluate mass media performance during the 2008 Parliamentarian (Ulsyn Ikh Khural – UIKh) elections, to monitor objective and balanced coverage of candidates and platforms, so Mongolia's voters could make well-informed choices at the ballot box. The project findings were arrived at through a well-defined and rigorous methodology; [ Read more ]

Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) on behalf of the National Coalition for the International Criminal Court (NCICC), Nepal urged the 7th Assembly of the State Parties of the International Criminal Court delegates to actively encourage the government to accede to the treaty without further delay. In a statement delivered to the Assembly on 15 November [ Read more ]

Please find attached two statements from Korean NGOs: (1) An oral statement delivered on 27 November, during the pre-sessional working group of the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; (2) A summary of Korean NGO's counter report abstract that was submitted to the Committee. FORUM-ASIA's member in South Korea Peoples Solidarity for Participatory Democracy [ Read more ]

Several months ago, the government of Sri Lanka made announcements "inviting" displaced people in Vanni to come to government controlled areas, saying that they would be well taken care of. In the last few weeks, media reports indicated that several hundreds of people had come to government controlled areas.  Pictures and statements were made to [ Read more ]

This statement was released by ANTI – Aliansi Nasional Timor Leste Ba Tribunal Internasional or National Alliance for an International Tribunal on 5 December 2008 in Dili. It was witnessed and signed by representatives from the member groups of ANTI: Fokupers, La'o Hamutuk, Luta Hamutuk, Judicial Systems Monitoring Programme (JSMP), Forum Tau Matan (FTM), HAK [ Read more ]

Welcome to our "UDHR &I" Photo Gallery! Please enjoy UDHR in various Asian local languages written by our friends from all over Asia. Human rights defenders in these photos are our members and participants who attended our annual Asian Training and Study Session (ATSS). Welcome to our "UDHR & I" Virtual Photo Gallery! Please enjoy [ Read more ]

              Today marks the landmark of human rights history when the first encoded basic principles of human rights and fundamental freedom was adopted by 58 countries in 1948 in Paris, France. FORUM-ASIA joins the United Nations supporters and the rest of the world to commemorate the 60th anniversary of [ Read more ]

A massive and unlawful crackdown by the Ministry of Justice and police force took place in the Seong-Sang Furniture Factory Complex in Masok (Namyangju City, Gyounggi-Do, Korea) on 12 November. Migrants Trade Union has issued a comment over police high-handedness in this case.  FORUM-ASIA's partner in South Korea, MTU's statement is provided below: The crackdown [ Read more ]

FORUM-ASIA commends Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) for its recent commitment to further human rights protection and promotion, by signing the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED) but calls the government to further its commitments at the regional level. At the annual United Nations treaty event in Geneva, [ Read more ]

FORUM-ASIA is troubled by the fact that after 17 years, justice and recompense for victims are slow in process to obtain and the main perpetrators of the Santa Cruz Massacre are still free. This statement is a response to the press release by Timor-Leste National Alliance for an International Tribunal (ANTI), where HAK Association is [ Read more ]