Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development is a regional human rights organisation with 42 member-organisations in 16 countries in Asia.
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Friday, 24 October 2008 |
 10 December of this year marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). As a part of the campaign, FORUM-ASIA is planning several events and we would like all members to join us and enjoy this celebration.
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 FORUM-ASIA commends Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) for its recent commitment to further human rights protection and promotion, by signing the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED) but calls the government to further its commitments at the regional level.
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 FORUM-ASIA is troubled by the fact that after 17 years, justice and recompense for victims are slow in process to obtain and the main perpetrators of the Santa Cruz Massacre are still free. This statement is a response to the press release by Timor-Leste National Alliance for an International Tribunal (ANTI), where HAK Association is a member.
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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 FORUM-ASIA has issued a statement to express its deep concerns over the arrest of five South Korean human rights defenders for violating the Act on Assembly and Demonstrations on 6 November. The court subsequently issued a preventive detention order on 8 November 2008, and denied them bail.
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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 The Human Rights Education Institute of Burma has released a report entitled "Forgotten Future: Children Affected by Armed Conflict in Burma". The report explores the six grave categories of violations against children outlined by the UN Secretary General. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 FORUM-ASIA’s member in East Timor, Judicial System Monitoring Programme has issued a statement on the implication of court cases in the law of civil procedure. Read the statement inside.
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
 The Gerakan Mansuhkan ISA (GMI)/ Abolish ISA (Internal Security Act) Movement (AIM) challenges the government on its ISA detentions, in the wake of the Foreign Ministry's recent statement asking Obama Barack to release two Malaysian citizens from Guantanamo Bay camp.
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Submission from the Second Regional Consultation on ASEAN and Human Rights to the High Level Panel on the Establishment of the ASEAN Human Rights Body Click here to learn more Submission on the ASEAN commission on the promotion and protection of the rights of women and children and the ASEAN human rights body Click here to learn more |
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 The next session of the Human Rights Council, the 10th regular session will commence from 2-27 March 2009. |
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A massive and unlawful crackdown by the Ministry of Justice and police force took place in the Seong-Sang Furniture Factory Complex in Masok (Namyangju City, Gyounggi-Do, Korea) on 12 November. Migrants Trade Union has issued a comment over police high-handedness in this case. 
For Cambodia's police and armed forces, impunity is the rule of law. In recent months Phnom Penh has been witness to a spate of shootings perpetrated by police or Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) personnel.
More than 75 participants from mass and civil society organizations, trade unions, and government ministries participated actively in the Lao national consultation on the ASEAN Declaration on the protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers from 2-3 October in Vientiane.
