{mosimage} Defending the Defenders
List of Articles
Main Feature
- For the full implementation of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders
- International community needs to support human rights defenders
- Need for special attention and protection mechanism
- 1st Southeast Asia Human Rights Defenders’ Forum: Promoting people-centred regional cooperation
- United Nations Human Rights Council: At the cross roads: “Old wine in a new bottle?”
- Sri Lanka: Will the UN Human Rights Council act?
- Strengthening special procedures: a challenge for NGOs
- National human rights institutions: The need for better co-operation and monitoring
- ASEAN: 2nd ASEAN civil society conference: “ASEAN for the people”
- SAARC: 14th Summit: Is there a human rights perspective?
Country Focus
- Bangladesh: Restore democracy and the rule of law. Bring on
- the elections!!
- Nepal: Human rights: the only way towards peace
- Sri Lanka: Activists vilifi ed for their engagement with the UN
- Malaysia: Impunity despite evidence of police abuse
- Laos: Persecution of religious minorities continue amidst government denial
- Thailand: Manifesting anger: protest against the Thai junta
- Indonesia: Undermining truth and mocking friendship
- Aceh: Waves of transition: prisons to power
- Timor Leste: Are human rights a priority for the new president?
- Burma: Civil society groups appeal to UN to protect human rights defenders
- The Philippines: Human rights group engages special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings
Thematic Focus
- Rohingya refuges face deplorable human rights violations
- World Social Forum: People’s struggles, people’s alternatives
- Indigenous peoples’ rights are human rights
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