36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 6: Universal Periodic Review of the Philippines Oral Statement Delivered by Ellecer Carlos on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Friday, 22 September 2017 Mr. President, FORUM-ASIA makes this statement in solidarity with the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) [ Read more ]

36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 6: Adoption of the UPR Outcomes – India Oral Statement Delivered by Henri Tiphagne on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Thursday, 21 September 2017 FORUM-ASIA and the Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN (WGHR), welcome the [ Read more ]

36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 6: Universal Periodic Review of Indonesia Oral Statement Delivered by Yuyun Wahyuningrum on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Thursday, 21 September 2017 Mr President, Human Rights Working Group (HRWG), on behalf of the Indonesia Civil Society Organisations Coalition for the [ Read more ]

36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 4 General Debate: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention Oral Statement Delivered by Milanga Abeysuriya on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Tuesday, 19 September 2017 Mr. President, FORUM-ASIA draws the Council’s attention to declining human rights situations in [ Read more ]

36th 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 Khin Ohmar on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Tuesday, 18 September 2017 Mr. President. We welcome the update of the Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar and [ Read more ]

36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 3 General Debate: Oral Statement Delivered by Samia Islam on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) Monday, 18 September 2017 Mr. President, We note observations by the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) [ Read more ]

14 September 2017 The undersigned non-governmental organizations call on The Supreme Court of Maldives to rescind the indefinite suspension of all 56 lawyers who signed a petition to the Supreme Court calling for the independence and reform of the judiciary. Their suspension follows a joint petition on 30 August 2017 by 56 lawyers, two of [ Read more ]

H.E. Aquilino Pimentel III President of the Senate of the Philippines Senate of the Philippines Roxas Blvd. Pasay City Philippines   13 September 2017   Re: ANNI Open Letter concerning the vote of the House of Representatives on the 2018 Budget for the Commission on Human Rights   Your Excellency, With this letter, I would [ Read more ]

36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 2 General Debate: Oral Update by the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Oral Statement Delivered by R. Iniyan Ilango on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Tuesday, 12 September 2017 Mr. President, FORUM-ASIA welcomes the Oral Update by the UN [ Read more ]

(Kathmandu/Bangkok: 6 September, 2017) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) condemns the assassination of Gauri Lankesh, a senior journalist, writer and human rights defender, in Bangalore on 5 September 2017. Lankesh, aged 55, was the editor of the weekly Kannada tabloid ‘Gauri Lankesh Patrike’. She was known for her stance against [ Read more ]