Update 19 February 2015: Interim stay on the arrest of activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand have been extended until the final judgment of their application for anticipatory bail by the Supreme Court of India. The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) hopes that the court would grant them the relief [ Read more ]

(Bangkok/New Delhi, 28 January 2015) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), deplored the re-arrest of Ms. Irom Sharmila Chanu on 24 January 2015 over the very same charges she had been cleared of by the local court and released hours prior. Such repeated aggression against a peaceful protestor is an affront [ Read more ]

(Bangkok, 22 January 2015) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) welcomes the verdict of a Manipur court to release Irom Sharmila from judicial custody. Sharmila has been on a hunger strike for over 14 years, demanding the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA). The court has once again [ Read more ]

Oral statement delivered by Mr. R. Iniyan Ilango on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)   Thursday, 12 June 2014 Thank you, Mr. President. FORUM-ASIA appreciates the report of the Working Group on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises (A/HRC/26/25) and we support the extension [ Read more ]

(Bangkok/Geneva, 28 March 2014) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a regional human rights group, has expressed concern over the lack of cooperation of a number of Asian states with the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders in 2013. The regional human rights group said this following [ Read more ]

(Bangkok, 19 July 2013) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a regional human rights group with 47 member organisations from 16 countries across Asia, condemned the killing of six protesters by the Border Security Force (BSF), who were protesting against the forceful entry of BSF personnel into a mosque in the [ Read more ]

(Bangkok, 21 November 2012): We, the undersigned organizations of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) who were in Bangkok, Thailand, for our 7th General Assembly on 20-21 November 2012, convey our warmest greetings of solidarity to 63,000 Dalit-Adivasis who are gathering at the National Dalit-Adivasi Sammelan in Delhi, India on today, 23 [ Read more ]

(Bangkok, 21 November 2012): We, the undersigned organizations of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) who were meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, for our 7th General Assembly on 20-21 November 2012, convey our strongest condemnation towards the execution of Mohammad Ajmal Kasab by hanging him on 21st November morning in the prison of [ Read more ]

Thank you, Madam President. FORUM-ASIA makes this statement in association with the Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN (WGHR), a national coalition of human rights organizations and independent experts in India. [1] Madam President, it is deeply regrettable that since the 2nd UPR Working Group session in May, the government of [ Read more ]

(Bangkok, 13 September 2012): The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) has strongly condemned the fierce police repression on the peaceful protest by the people of Idinthikarai and other villages surrounding the Koodankulam Nuclear Plant in Tamil Nadu, India on 10 September 2012. The regional human rights organization representing 49 non-governmental organizations across [ Read more ]