Human Rights Council 39th session Annual discussion on the integration of a gender perspective (Gender integration and human rights investigations: strengthening a victim-centered approach) Speaker: Pooja Patel Thank you, Chair. ISHR and FORUM-ASIA stress the importance of ensuring gender-sensitive and gender-inclusive methodologies and the integration of a gender perspective by United Nations investigative teams. As [ Read more ]

 39th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 6: Universal Periodic Review of Bangladesh Oral Statement Delivered by Ahmed Adam on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Thursday, 20 September, 2018 We note that Bangladesh has fully accepted 178 out of 251 recommendations. We appreciate that the government has [ Read more ]

 39th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 5 – Expressing concern about human rights record of several candidate States running for the upcoming Human Rights Council elections Oral Statement Delivered by Salma El Hosseiny Thursday, 20 September, 2018 We are concerned that several candidate States running for upcoming Human Rights Council elections fail to [ Read more ]

39th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 5: Interactive Dialogue with Assistant Secretary General on the Secretary General’s report on reprisals Oral Statement Delivered by Hkaung Stelar Naw on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Wednesday, 19 September, 2018 Mr. President, we welcome the report of the Secretary [ Read more ]

(Bangkok/ Kathmandu, 19 September 2018) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) is gravely concerned about the ongoing crackdown on dissent and political opponents in the Maldives, ahead of the presidential election on 23 September 2018. FORUM-ASIA calls on the Maldivian authorities to enable a conducive environment for the free and fair [ Read more ]

39th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 4: General debate on human rights situations that require the attention of the Council Oral Statement Delivered by Rin Fujimatsu on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Tuesday, 18 September, 2018 Mr. President, we draw the Council’s attention to human rights situations [ Read more ]

39th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 4: Interactive Dialogue with the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar Oral Statement Delivered by Wai Wai Nu on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Tuesday, 18 September, 2018 Mr. President, I am a Rohingya human rights defender who has been [ Read more ]

Oral Statement Human Rights Council, 39th Regular Session: Agenda item 3  Joint statement by Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) Asociación Civil, Conectas Direitos Humanos, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), and International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) 14 September 2018 Mr. President. We would like to welcome the report of the [ Read more ]

(Bangkok, 15 September 2018) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), with the participation of the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL), conducted a fact-finding mission in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 7-10 September 2018. In light of the testimonies and data gathered during the mission, we express our utmost concern about the deterioration [ Read more ]

 39th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council High-level panel discussion to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Oral Statement Delivered by Khin Ohmar on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Thursday, 13 September 2018 Mr. President, FORUM-ASIA welcomes [ Read more ]