Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development is a regional human rights organisation with 46 member-organisations across Asia.
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
 One of the Managing Trustee of
Community Trust Fund (CTF)
Mr.
Pattani Razeek has been missing since February 11th 2010. He
was last seen at Polonnaruwa Town when he got into a white colour van at
around
3.00 pm. CTF is deeply concerned about his whereabouts and appeals to
the
authorities to act speedily to locate Mr Razeek.
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
 FORUM-ASIA wrote this letter expressing our
deep concerns over the NGO Affairs Bureau’s refusal to extend a human
rights training and advocacy project proposed by Odhikar, a local human
rights organisation in Bangladesh.
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
 On the World Day of
Social Justice on 20 February 2010, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) called
for the end of the prevailing model of economic globalisation. In their
statement issued on the day, they said that the model has resulted in
economic instability and social exclusion.
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
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Fifty-six
organisations/groups have sent a letter to the ASEAN and Heads of
Government of ASEAN countries, calling on them to pay attention to the
struggle of factory workers in Burma.
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
 Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA
(GMI or Abolish the ISA Movement)
and FORUM-ASIA member SUARAM condemned the Malaysian government for
deciding to extradite nine foreigners who were detained under
the Internal Security Act (ISA). In their statement below,
issued on 17 February 2010, they appealed to the government to provide
legal assistance for these detainees and stop deportation.
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
 On 22
February 2010, the Asian NGOs Network on National
Human Rights Institutions (ANNI), issued an appeal to the Senate of
the Philippines regarding Senate Bill 2657, entitled, AN ACT
STRENGTHENING
THE FUNCTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION OF THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN
RIGHTS, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
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The military in the Philippines arrested 43
workers who were in health outreach project, saying that they have
communist ties. The National Union of Peoples' Lawyers released the
statement below on 11 February 2010, calling it "gestapo-like raid."
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
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Proposed by the Public Administration
and Security Committee, public assembly in South Korea may be prohibited
from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. FORUM-ASIA called on the committee not to amend
the law to enable such prohibition in a letter on 18 February 2010.
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