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Rights Tracker is the first comprehensive set of measurements for tracking the human rights performance of countries, launched by the Human Rights Measure Initiative. The newly launched 2022 data set include; an annual data on five economic and social rights for 194 countries (depending on the right) from 2007 to 2019, based on the [ Read more ]
To increase the impact and effectiveness of Asian human rights defenders and civil society’s advocacy in the UN, particularly the UN Human Rights Council, we have established an office in Geneva focusing on UN advocacy since 2008. Through FORUM-ASIA’s presence in Geneva and experience of engaging with UN human rights mechanisms, we have enabled Asian [ Read more ]
To commemorate 23 years since the Trisakti shootings tragedy, KontraS with comic illustrator, Agah Nugraha Muharam, launched a comic series depicting the devastating Indonesia history. The month of May is remembered every year as one of the historic months for Indonesia, because it is filled with various political and violent events in the course of [ Read more ]
Local level elections have been held in all the districts of the country today (May 13, 2022). In some of the local levels of Dang and Kapilvastu, the polling has been postponed due to the death of the candidates. The election has been completed in 751 local levels and in some of the wards people’s [ Read more ]
50th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 2: Interactive Dialogue on the Oral Update by the High Commissioner on Myanmar Delivered by Khin Ohmar On behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) 14 June 2022 Mr. President, Madam High Commissioner, The Myanmar junta is escalating its scorched-earth atrocity [ Read more ]
Seven human rights organizations expressed concerns about the deteriorating health of activist and Delhi University professor Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba in Nagpur Central Jail, Maharashtra State, and called on the Indian authorities to provide urgent access to health care. G.N. Saibaba was initially arrested in 2014 and accused of links to banned Maoist organisations. In March [ Read more ]
(Bangkok/Kathmandu, 20 June 2022) — The United Nations Security Council must impose comprehensive targeted sanctions on the leadership and representatives of the Taliban, including the reinstatement of travel bans against Taliban leaders, said the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA). ‘The Security Council has an opportunity to reinforce the ban on members and [ Read more ]
(Bangkok/Kuala Lumpur, 20 June 2022) – We, the undersigned organisations, demand clarity on the supposed delay of the release of 2020 and 2021 Annual Reports of Malaysia’s national human rights institution (NHRI), Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Manusia Malaysia (SUHAKAM). The long-delayed publication of the 2020 and 2021 Annual Reports could derail the important work that SUHAKAM [ Read more ]
