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LST, alongside Chrysalis, has launched a research report on Gender-discriminatory social norms and their impact on the rights and freedoms of women. This study, focusing on the Northern Province, lays bare the fact that the existence of gender discriminatory social norms is one of the fundamental causes for gender inequality. The Northern Province is a [ Read more ]
Purple Action for Indigenous Women’s Rights (LILAK), The Philippines has published its reaction to Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr.’s first State of the Nations Address as a president. Click here for the full article in LILAK website. It is crystal clear that Marcos Jr. hasn’t said a single thing about indigenous communities and ancestral domains. He [ Read more ]
Banglar MASUM, India has launched its monthly human rights report for the month of June 2022. In this edition, Banglar MASUM highlighted the fresh complaints of gross human rights violations, one was torture by the Border Security Personnel. Banglar MASUM also covered the workshop and facilitation that was done towards volunteers on border population issue. [ Read more ]
For the PDF version of this publication, click here ** As human rights defenders (HRDs) of Asia work relentlessly to advance and uphold human rights in the region, they also face strong backlash and harassment from both State and non-State actors. On 8 March 2022, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), with [ Read more ]
The joint European Union (EU)-India press release, which provides a summary of the topics discussed during the 10th EU-India human rights dialogue which took place on 15 July 2022 in New Delhi, fails to adequately address pressing issues of security and reprisals faced by human rights defenders in India, five human rights organizations said today. [ Read more ]
Five human rights organizations strongly condemned the brutal attack against unarmed peaceful protesters by Sri Lankan forces in Colombo on in the early hours of 22 July 2022 . Since March 2022, thousands of people including human rights defenders, journalists, and members of civil society have been protesting peacefully across the country against the government’s [ Read more ]
(Kathmandu/Bangkok, 22 July 2022) – ‘We welcome the special message of the Prime Minister of Nepal to fully implement the Kamaya Labour (Prohibition) Act of 2001 and call on government agencies to implement inclusive and non-discriminatory social protection programmes to ensure the rehabilitation of the Harawa-Charawa,’ said the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development [ Read more ]
(Bangkok/Kathmandu, 15 July 2022) – ‘The arrest and judicial harassment of human rights defender Teesta Setalvad is a clear reprisal for seeking justice and accountability for 2002 Gujarat riots,’ said the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and 5 of its member organisations in India. Teesta Setalvad is an outspoken journalist and the [ Read more ]
