Weaving An Alternative Southeast Asia: Regional Strategy Meeting on Emerging Social and Cultural Concerns in ASEAN: Climate Change, South East Asian Peoples’ Right to Information, Labor Migration and Domestic Work and Platforms for Civil Society Engagement with the ASEAN
This Regional Strategy Meeting seeks to mainstream existing work and discussions on the following emerging issues such as the peoples’ right to information, climate change, and labor migration and domestic work. Through this regional activity, the South East Asian Committee for Advocacy (SEACA) aims to provide a space to strategize a more focused engagement with the ASEAN, specifically on three issues previously mentioned that are covered by the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community.
Date: September 2, 2010   04:38:22pm

FREE MEDIA, FREE SOCIETY
Yesterday, in yet another brushfire igniting in the Philippine political landscape under the Arroyo Administration, a naval lieutenant and elected senator of the Republic, a decorated Army general, and about thirty (30) of their military comrades, reiterated their withdrawal of support for the President and called for the creation of a new government.
Date: February 14, 2008   04:56:41pm

Human rights 'should be in charter'
Human rights bodies from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines ended a three-day joint meeting in Bali on Thursday by signing a declaration to work together to improve human rights conditions in the region.
Date: November 19, 2007   10:57:42am

ASEAN must speak out on Aung San Suu Kyi
“To use the discredited principle of ‘non-intervention’ as an excuse to stay silent on acts of such injustice within its own borders is no longer an acceptable or credible position. What is there left to celebrate about an organisation that is 40 years old but is still unwilling to take a stand on such flagrant abuses of power by one of its own member states?” said Anselmo Lee, Executive Director of FORUM-ASIA.
Date: November 19, 2007   10:56:06am

MFA Calls for the Elimination of the Slavery Like Conditions and Forced Labour of Migrant Workers
The "International Day for the Remembrance for the Slave Trade and its Abolition" (August 23, 2007) serves as a reminder to the global community of the roots of oppression in the forms of forced labour and denial of the inherent human dignity of individuals and communities.
Date: November 7, 2007   05:13:21pm

11 YEARS IS ENOUGH! Asian NGOs Demand the Release of Aung San Suu Kyi
The military regime in Myanmar has just extended the detention of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for another six months despite worldwide calls for her immediate release. This statement was issued just before the announcement this weekend.
Date: November 7, 2007   05:12:44pm

Thai leader supports creation of ASEAN Human Rights Commission
EFFORTS to establish an intergovernmental human rights mechanism in Southeast Asia got a big boost from Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont with the assurance that he will support the initiative.
Date: November 7, 2007   05:11:10pm

One Year After the Coup: Restrictions on Freedoms Remain
(Bangkok) The Campaign for Popular Media Reform (CPMR) and the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) join together to express concern over the deprivation of freedoms in Thailand: freedom of expression, association and assembly, that have been occurring since the military coup one year ago today.
Date: November 3, 2007   12:59:20pm

Asian Human Rights Commission: Election violence and corruption expose the rotten state of the Philippines
With the conclusion of the legislative and local elections in the
Philippines on May 14, the extent of deaths, violence and corrupt practices that have occurred during this electoral exercise is extremely appalling.
Date: August 23, 2007   06:08:31am

"Prosecute perpetrators of crimes against humanity"
JUSTICE remains elusive for victims of human rights violations in Timor-Leste as the perpetrators of the gruesome crimes continue to enjoy impunity. Instead of being punished, the Indonesian government seems to reward those responsible for the death of more than 100,000 people who were killed during Indonesia’s so-called 24-year reign of terror.
Date: August 23, 2007   06:08:14am