Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development is a regional human rights organisation with 46 member-organisations across Asia.
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Statements from Secretariate
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Friday, 20 August 2010 |
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FORUM-ASIA is gravely concerned by reports it has received on the unlawful arrest and detention of five (5) human rights defenders including three women human rights defenders in Tamil Nadu India on 15 August 2010.
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Thursday, 05 August 2010 |
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FORUM-ASIA calls on Asian governments to take concrete measures in realising the right to water and sanitation following a resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 28 July 2010, recognizing “the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights.”
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Friday, 25 June 2010 |
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FORUM-ASIA denounces the imposition of the death penalty in January
2009 on Mr. Yong Vui Kong, 22 years old, for trafficking 47 grams of
diamorphine (heroin). Despite his appeal to the Singapore Court of
Appeal, the Malaysian national's plea against the mandatory death
sentence was dismissed on 14 May 2010.
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Friday, 18 June 2010 |
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After submitting a letter to the UN Security Council the investigation
on the Cheonan incident, People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy
(PSPD), FORUM-ASIA member, has received condemnatory statements by
government leaders and become target of investigation. In the letter
below FORUM-ASIA called on the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of
Expression Frank La Rue to urge the country to "immediately cease
arbitrary legal action" against the organisation.
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010 |
 Subodh Raj
Pyakurel, chairperson of FORUM-ASIA, refused the decoration by the
Nepali government. Other nominees included the people responsible for
the "Kalanki massacre" in 2006, and he released a statement below on 31
May 2010. On 2 June, the council of ministers decided to scrap the two
medals conferred to controversial police officers.
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Friday, 04 June 2010 |
 Fourteenth session of UN Human Rights Council has started! Bringing up human rights issues from Asia, FORUM-ASIA voiced on 4 June 2010 that "if the Council has the political will, it can do vastly more to prevent unlawful killings around the world".
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