39th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 4: General debate on human rights situations that require the attention of the Council Oral Statement Delivered by Rin Fujimatsu on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Tuesday, 18 September, 2018 Mr. President, we draw the Council’s attention to human rights [ Read more ]
39th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 4: Interactive Dialogue with the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar Oral Statement Delivered by Wai Wai Nu on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) Tuesday, 18 September, 2018 Mr. President, I am a Rohingya human rights defender who has been [ Read more ]
Oral Statement Human Rights Council, 39th Regular Session: Agenda item 3 Joint statement by Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) Asociación Civil, Conectas Direitos Humanos, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), and International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) 14 September 2018 Mr. President. We would like to welcome the report of the [ Read more ]
Shared space under pressure: Business support for civic freedoms and human rights defenders Date: Monday, 17 September 2018 Time: 13:30-14:30 Venue: Room XXVII Palais des Nations, Geneva
To Permanent Representatives of Member States of the UN General Assembly 18 September 2018 Member States of the UN should refrain from voting for candidates to the Human Rights Council that are unfit for membership Excellencies, Ahead of the next UN Human Rights Council (“HRC” or “the Council”) election, we, the undersigned national, regional and [ Read more ]
Honorable Justice (Retd.) H.L Dattu Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission, Manav Adhikar Bhawan, Block-C, GPO Complex, INA, New Delhi-110 023 Email: hrd-nhrc@nic.in 12 September 2018 Re: Open Letter to the National Human Rights Commission of India concerning the raids and arbitrary arrests of human rights defenders across India Dear Honorable Chairperson, The Asian NGO Network [ Read more ]
(Bangkok, 6 September 2018) –The Asian NGO Network on National Human Rights Institutions (ANNI) welcomes the nomination of seven new candidates for the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRCT).The current selection process is more inclusive and transparent that indicates an effort in complying with the Paris Principles, a set of international standards which frame [ Read more ]
(Bangkok, 3 September 2018) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) strongly denounces the verdict of the Insein Court in Yangon today that sentenced two Reuters journalists – Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo – for breaching section 3(1)(c) of the 1923 Official Secrets Act. The pair were arrested on 12 December [ Read more ]
