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Posts Tagged ‘ACSC/APF 2012’ (6 found)

APSOC Condemns Restrictions on ASEAN Civil Society Conference-ASEAN Peoples Forum 2012 in Cambodia

The Asia-Pacific Solidarity Coalition (APSOC) along with its allied regional networks strongly condemns the restrictions imposed on an independent civil society gathering in Cambodia this week in the run-up to the ___ ASEAN summit […]

April 2, 2012  •  By Asia Pacific Solidarity Coalition  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Statement from the Burma/Myanmar Delegation to the ACSC/APF 2012 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Burma/Myanmar’s workshop, along with three other workshops, was not allowed to take place at the ACSC/APF 2012. Rather, the organizers were forced to move the workshops to another location […]

April 2, 2012  •  By Task Force on ASEAN and Burma  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

CCHR Deplores the Curtailment of Fundamental Freedoms and the Silencing of Civil Society

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights condemns a series of attempts by the Cambodian authorities to curtail the rights to freedom of expression and assembly of ordinary people and civil society organizations in and around the five-day summit of the Association of South East Asian Nations […]

April 1, 2012  •  By Cambodian Center for Human Rights  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Joint Statement of the 2012 ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum

We, more than 1,200 delegates representing various civil society organizations and movements of workers from rural and urban sectors as well as the migrant sector, peasants and farmers, women, children, youth, the elderly, persons with disabilities, urban poor, Indigenous Peoples, victims of human rights violations […]

March 31, 2012  •  By ACSC/APF 2012  •  Tags: , ,  •  Read more ➤

Press Statement of the 2012 ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum

We, more than 1,200 delegates from all ten ASEAN countries representing various civil society organizations and movements of workers from rural and urban sectors as well as the migrant sector, peasants and farmers, women, children, youth, the elderly, persons with disabilities, urban poor, Indigenous Peoples […]

March 31, 2012  •  By Steering Committee of ACSC/APF 2012  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Cambodia Curtails Freedom of Expression at ASEAN Civil Society Conference

Four workshops organized by civil society organizations were forced late last night to move their workshops to La Palaranda hotel, away from the main venue of the ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC)/ASEAN People’s Forum (APF), the Lucky Star Hotel (on Street 336, Phnom Penh). Three of the workshops dealt with land rights, eviction and environment issues and the fourth focused on Burma’s current political and human rights situation and the challenges this poses to the country’s chairmanship of ASEAN in 2014 […]

March 30, 2012  •  By Community Peace Building Network, Asian Indigenous Peoples Pact and Burma Partnership  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤