21 October 2014 Tan Sri Hasmy Agam Chairperson Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) 11th Floor, Menara TH Perdana, Jalan Sultan Ismail Kuala Lumpur 50250 Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur   Tel : 03-2612 5600 Fax : 03-2612 5620 Email : [email protected]   By Fax and Email   Dear Tan Sri Hasmy Agam, Re: Recent Spate [ Read more ]

Oral Statement Delivered by Gayathry Venkiteswaran on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)   Wednesday, 11 June 2014   Thank you Mr. President. FORUM-ASIA welcomes the reports of the two Special Rapporteurs. Concerns identified by the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and [ Read more ]

The UN Human Rights Council will hold its 26th regular session from 10 to 27 June 2014 in Geneva, Switzerland. FORUM-ASIA interventions, statements and events during this session will appear on this page.   Oral Statements Panel Discussion on the safety of journalists (Human Rights Council decision 24/116) (11 June 2014) Item 3: Interactive Dialogue with [ Read more ]

(Bangkok/Kuala Lumpur, 18 April 2014) – Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a Bangkok-based regional human rights group, together with its member organisation, Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM), urged the government of Malaysia to drop its latest charges under the controversial Peaceful Assembly Act (PAA) 2012 against four individuals, including Thomas Fann, the Vice [ 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 ]

Oral Statement Delivered by Andrew Khoo on Behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)  Thursday, 20 March 2014   Mr. President, FORUM-ASIA together with Bar Council Malaysia and COMANGO, a coalition of Malaysian NGOs led by FORUM-ASIA’s member SUARAM, make this statement jointly. While we appreciate that the Malaysian government has fully [ Read more ]

(Bangkok, 11 March 2014) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a Bangkok-based regional human rights NGO with 47 member organisations in 16 Asian countries, joined the chorus of domestic and international condemnation of the conviction of opposition party leader and Member of Parliament, Karpal Singh, who was sentenced to a RM4,000 [ Read more ]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Kuala Lumpur/Bangkok, 26 July 2013) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a Bangkok-based regional human rights group representing 47 non-governmental organizations in 16 countries across Asia, concluded its fact-finding and advocacy mission from 22 to 25 July 2013, which assessed the situation of the exercise of freedoms of [ Read more ]

(Bangkok, 28 May 2013): The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) has condemned the charges filed against a number of activists and opposition leaders in Malaysia in relation to their exercise of freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly in the past two weeks. The regional human rights group, representing 47 organisations from 16 [ Read more ]

Dato’ Sri Najib Tun Razak Prime Minister of Malaysia Perdana Putra Building Federal Government Administrative Centre 62502 Putrajaya, Malaysia Tel: +60388888000 Fax: +60388883444 The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a Bangkok-based regional human rights group representing 47 organizations in 16 countries across Asia, writes to you to express our concern over the [ Read more ]