Date: Friday, 9 June 2017 Time: 15:30 – 17:00 Venue: Room VIII, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), KTNC Watch, International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) and Good Electronics are organising a side event based on the presentation by the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights of their country visit [ Read more ]

(Bangkok, 2 June 2017) – It has been just under a month since Moon Jae-in, a former human rights lawyer, was elected to become the new President of South Korea. Taking over from disgraced Park Geun-hye, he has already made several commitments to human rights. One of them is his expressed intention, earlier this week, [ Read more ]

Joint Statement of 102 Peace Activists 16 May 2017 We, undersigned peace-loving people around the world, are deeply concerned about the current escalating tension in Northeast Asia and urge Governments to have peaceful dialogues among each other rather than taking military actions. The state of affairs on the Korean Peninsula is more volatile than ever, [ Read more ]

(Bangkok, 10 May 2017) – As South Korea elected a new President yesterday, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) calls on the new incoming President, Mr. Moon Jae-in, to conduct a thorough, impartial, and independent investigation into the death of Baek Nam-gi. A failure to do so would be a further discredit [ Read more ]

(Bangkok, 3 October 2016) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) is deeply saddened by the death of Nam-gi Baek, a 70-year old activist farmer. Baek had been unconscious after being hit by a police water cannon during a peaceful protest in Seoul on 14 November 2015. FORUM-ASIA strongly condemns the failure [ Read more ]

33rd Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 8: Follow up to and implementation of Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action – General Debate Oral Statement Delivered by Ahmed Adam On behalf of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Monday, 26 September 2016   Mr. President, we note the two [ Read more ]

(Seoul/Bangkok, 11 July 2016) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a regional human rights group with 58 members across Asia, strongly denounces the Seoul Central District Court’s decision sentencing Sang-gyun Han to five years in prison and a 500,000 Korean Won (KRW) fine – equivalent to 434 US Dollars – for [ Read more ]

[English Version] (Bangkok, 29 June 2016) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) strongly condemns the recent police operation to seize and search both offices and staff members of the Citizen’s Network for General Election of 2016 (Change 2016). Change 2016 consists of more than 1000 NGOs in South Korea, including People’s [ Read more ]

  Item 3: Promotion and Protection of all Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, including the Right to Development  – Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism Oral Statement Delivered by Ms. Gayoon Baek on Behalf of People’s Solidarity [ Read more ]

­(Seoul/Bangkok, 21 December 2015) – South Korean authorities should immediately release and drop all charges against trade union leader Sang-gyun Han, said the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) today. Sang-gyun Han was arrested for participating in various demonstrations recently, where protesters raised various human rights issues including: labour and farmers’ rights; the [ Read more ]