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 ]

Date: Friday, 22 September 2017 Time: 13:30-14:30 Venue: Room XV, Palais des Nations, Geneva The Philippines underwent its third cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in May 2017. Notably, over 45 states expressed their concerns on the Government’s so-called ‘war on drugs’, particularly on the thousands of cases extrajudicial killings that have been recorded. These concerns were [ 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 ]

(Bangkok/Geneva, 8 June 2017) – The Philippines faced international opprobrium on Wednesday at the UN Human Rights Council (Council) where 32 States jointly urged the Government to end extrajudicial killings and threats against human rights defenders. The joint statement, delivered by Iceland called on the Philippines to cooperate with human rights mechanisms by allowing the [ Read more ]

35th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 2: General Debate on High Commissioner’s Oral Update Oral Statement Delivered by Ellecer Carlos on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Wednesday, 07 June 2017 Mr President, FORUM-ASIA welcomes the High Commissioner’s statement. We share his concerns on states’ non-cooperation and [ Read more ]

Joint Oral Statement of the 35th Session of the UN Human Rights Council Agenda Item 3: Clustered Interactive Dialogue with UN SR on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary execution and IE on sexual orientation and gender identity 6 June 2017 Delivered by: Mr Jesus V Garganera Franciscans International and Forum Asia welcome the report[1] and statements[2] [ Read more ]

35th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 2: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Oral Statement Delivered by Rosanna Ocampo On behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Tuesday, 06 June 2017 Mr President, FORUM-ASIA welcomes the report of the Special Rapporteur on [ Read more ]

Date: Wednesday, 7 June 2017 Time: 15:00 – 16:30 Venue: Room IX, Palais des Nations, Geneva The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Franciscans International, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Human Rights Watch, and International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) are organising a side event linked to the extrajudicial killings in The Philippines. [ Read more ]

(Bangkok, 24 May 2017) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) is deeply concerned over the declaration of martial law in Mindanao, by the Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Martial law was declared for 60 days in the midst of ongoing clashes allegedly between members of Abu Sayyaf and Maute Group and security [ Read more ]