From 1-6 October, São Paulo will receive activists and social change agents from 27 countries for the 15th edition of the International Human Rights Colloquium. Under the theme “Human rights: crisis or transition?”, the purpose of the event is to promote the exchange of knowledge and practices with people who work closely on the topic. [ Read more ]
Watch FORUM-ASIA statements delivered during the 36th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council. Click here for an overview of interventions and events during the session.
FORUM-ASIA is hiring a process facilitator for its upcoming Global Advocacy Learning Programme on Human Rights & Development that will take place in Thailand from 19-25 November 2017. The ideal candidate should have a minimum of ten years of experience in facilitating training and learning programmes in a multicultural environment. Knowledge of human rights and [ Read more ]
The freedoms of assembly, association, expression and religion are rights that are both interrelated and interconnected. Increasingly, people are using the Internet to exercise these rights. Backlash to this has come in the form of restrictions placed on these fundamental freedoms by States and outright attacks by non-state actors. In Asia, evidence of these trends [ Read more ]
(Bangkok, 9 October 2017) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) strongly denounces the recent legal action taken by the Government of Cambodia against the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), the country’s main opposition party. On 6 October 2017, a petition to dissolve the CNRP was filed with the Supreme Court on [ Read more ]
(Bangkok, 8 October 2017) – Yameen Rasheed, 29-year-old, popular blogger and human rights defender from the Maldives, was brutally murdered on 23 April 2017. While the horrific attack was widely condemned both within and outside the country, so far belief in justice for Yameen has been hampered by serious questions related to the integrity of [ Read more ]
(Bangkok/Geneva, 29 September 2017) In passing its biannual resolution on Cambodia today, the UN Human Rights Council took the additional step of authorising the UN to prepare a report on the country in the next six months, ahead of the July 2018 elections. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is expected [ Read more ]
(Bangkok/Geneva, 29 September 2017) – A decision adopted today by the 36th session of the UN Human Rights Council on Burma/Myanmar fell short of meeting the body’s mandate to respond promptly to human rights emergencies and prevent human rights violations. The session began on 11 September with a warning from the UN High Commissioner for [ Read more ]
