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ASIA: Statement on the Commemoration of International Day of the Disappeared 2013 by the International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED)

ICAED’s Voice: Honor the Disappeared through incessant call for States’ Accession to the Anti-Disappearance Convention  It has been 32 years ago since our Latin American sisters and broth...

PHILIPPINES: Karapatan hit special treatment for Napoles, Razon

“Aquino’s penchant for giving special treatment to high profile and notorious rights violators and thieves is once again illustrated in the case of Janet Napoles and former Philippine Nati...

INDIA: WinG-Assam demands immediate apology and legal action against MP Mr. Kirip Chaliha for making derogatory comments about a female police officer in Assam

Press Statement Women in Governance-Assam (WinG-Assam) 27 August 2013 Character assassination of females in public service is a great barrier for women empowerment. Women are silenced by comments and...

INDONESIA: Groups Condemn Sale of Deadly Attack Helicopters to Indonesia

Contact: Contact: John M. Miller, +1-917-690-4391 Ed McWilliams, +1-575-648-2078 The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) and the West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT) today condemned the U.S....

LAOS: Press briefing on the findings of the 3rd Parliamentary Delegation to the Lao PDR on the enforced disappearance of Sombath Somphone

Sombath Somphone, a widely-respected leader in education and sustainable development in the Lao PDR, and recipient of the 2005 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership, disappeared on the evenin...

PAKISTAN: Casualties of violence remained as high as 572 died and 642 were injured during the month of July

During the month of July, casualties of violence remained as high as 1214 (deaths 572 and injuries 642). Some new trends in military operations and drone attacks also surfaced. Acts of violence kept d...

SOUTH KOREA: The authorities’ conducts to take DNA samples from those Yongsan displaced persons and SSangyong workers and to establish and use a database containing said samples are constituted the serious violation of the constitutionally protected human

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following joint statement from Catholic Human rights Committee, Jinbonet: Korean Progressive Network, Korean Metal Workers’ Union’s Ssangyong Mo...

BANGLADESH: Release Mr. Adilur Rahman Khan immediately from arbitrary detention

An open letter from from the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) to the Honorable Ambassador of Bangladesh forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission OPEN LETTER To th...

PAKISTAN: Gender imbalance in Pakistan judiciary

The percentage of women working in civil services is 5.4 while the representation of women judges in superior courts is 2.91 percent as against the 33 percent required by the UN Beijing Conference of ...

PAKISTAN: New Threat to our food security as MNCs trying to control food supply

The right to food is a basic Human Right and the government has to protect right of its peoples to produce and consume food for themselves, rather than on the dictates of market and corporations....

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THAILAND: Social Insecurity for Migrants Legally in Thailand

MAP FOUNDATION STATEMENT 2nd August 2013 Since November 2010, the Social Security Office of Thailand has promised social security benefits to migrants holding temporary passports. This promise became ...

PAKISTAN: Four years of Gojra incident passed- Christians are still waiting for justice

The Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) is calling for justice four years to the day since a horrific attack on the Christian town of Gojra in Pakistan. It was on 1 August 2009 tha...

PAKISTAN: World’s concern about minorities in Pakistan

The issue of minority rights in Pakistan is discussed often around the world these days, in parliaments, human rights groups like Amnesty International, religious freedom departments, foreign affairs ...

CAMBODIA: UN expert calls for free, fair and peaceful elections, and full respect for human rights

GENEVA (26 July 2013) – On the eve of the National Assembly elections in Cambodia on Sunday 28 July, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Surya P. Sube...

PAKISTAN: Open Letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on crimes against humanity in Balochistan

Mr Ban Ki-moon Secretary General, United Nation 1 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017 Dated: 28/07/2013 Dear Sir, The Baloch Social Media Activists forum would like to draw your kind attention to...

SRI LANKA: “Stop Prosecution of De Jure CJ” – Lawyers tell Government

Press Release – 18th July 2013 It is reliably learnt that the government is in the process of instituting criminal prosecution against the CJ, Shirani Bandaranayake shortly.  The recommencement...

PAKISTAN: No Respite in Terror

Pakistan Conflict Tracker Monthly Report (June 2013). By Mohammad Nafees   The month of June dawned with lots of hopes and expectations for the people of Pakistan as the new government was to tak...

SRI LANKA: Protest against intimidating social and cultural activists

15 July, 2013 Colombo We the undersigned, who stand for justice and democracy,  note with regret and concern the use of State media, especially the Independent Television Network (ITN) that uses its ...

CAMBODIA: Civil Society Organizations call for political parties to further promote women’s and children’s issues

(Phnom Penh, 10 July 2013) On 3 July 2013, a group of civil society organizations (“CSOs”) jointly organized a national political platform debate on “Special Measures to Solve Women&...