42nd Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 10: General Debate on technical assistance and capacity-building Oral Statement Delivered by Rosanna Ocampo  On behalf of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Thursday, 26 September 2019 Mr President, FORUM-ASIA welcomes the report on the OHCHR in Cambodia. We welcome the Secretary-General’s [ Read more ]

42 nd Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 10: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights Cambodia Oral Statement Delivered by Rosanna Ocampo On behalf of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Wednesday, 25 September 2019   Mr. President, FORUM-ASIA notes the report of [ Read more ]

42nd Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 5: General Debate on human rights bodies and mechanisms Oral Statement Delivered by Rosanna Ocampo On behalf of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Monday, 23 September 2019 Madam Vice-President, FORUM-ASIA welcomes the report of the Secretary General on reprisals against those [ Read more ]

Indonesia’s Revised Criminal Code (Revisi Kitab Undang-undang Hukum Pidana) legislating hate against LGBTQ persons. We, the undersigned civil society organizations working in Southeast Asia, express serious concern over the looming criminalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) and other gender minorities in Indonesia. We call on the government of Indonesia to reconsider the approval [ Read more ]

Item 5: Oral statement by 20 NGOs express support for the Coordination Committee’s process to strengthen the work of the Special Procedures Human Rights Council 42nd session Mr President, We deliver this statement on behalf of 20 NGOs. We note the concerns in the Declaration[1] of the Special Procedures’ mandate holders at the Annual Meeting [ Read more ]

17 September, 2019 Take Urgent Action to EndGenocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes FORUM-ASIA, Progressive Voice, and Karen Human Rights Group call on Member and Observer States to the UN Human Rights Council (“the Council”) to take concrete action to ensure justice and accountability for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes perpetrated against [ Read more ]

42nd Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 4: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Oral Statement Delivered by Wai Wai Nu On behalf of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Monday, 16 September 2019     Mr. President, We welcome the update [ Read more ]

Indonesia: ASEAN Human Rights Body needs to be proactive on addressing the situation in Papua (Bangkok, 16 September 2019) The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), together with its members in Indonesia, the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS), the Human Rights Working Group (HRWG), the Indonesian Human Rights Monitor [ Read more ]

Statement of the Asia-Pacific Gathering on Human Rights and Extractives  During the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples Forum (ACSC/APF) 2019 12 Sept 2019     –     Bangkok, Thailand We are communities and organizations all over the Asia-Pacific region who have come together to pursue protection and fulfillment of human rights and challenge destruct I’ve mining projects and [ Read more ]

(Kathmandu/Bangkok, 4 September 2019) – It has been one month since the start of the shut-down in India administered Jammu and Kashmir. The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) remains deeply concerned over these continuous restrictions on the freedom of expression and movement, and the further violations of human rights in the area. [ Read more ]