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Posts Tagged ‘Crimes against humanity’ (225 found)
PHILIPPINES: Indigenous peoples’ organizations across Asia call for immediate end to continued killings and abuses of Lumads in Mindanao
20 October 2015 – More than seventy indigenous peoples’ organizations across Asia are calling for an end to the continued killings of and other abuses against Lumads in Mindanao in their joint letter of appeal letter to President Benigno Aquino III after another Lumad leader was killed last September. These organizations also call for an independent and transparent investigation on the roles and accountability of both the paramilitary forces and the Philippine Army in the violence against the Lumads who are the indigenous peoples of southern Philippines in the island of Mindanao […]
• • •Report on Repressive Laws in Burma
In spite of the reforms in Burma in recent years, the process of democratization has been called into question by the persistence of grave human rights violations and the absence of any significant progress on genuine democractic reforms, notably with regard to the process of legal reform […]
Royce, Engel, Salmon, Sherman, Chabot, Crowley Condemn Arrests in Burma
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, Rep. Ed Royce (CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Rep. Eliot L. Engel (NY), the Committee’s ranking member; Reps. Matt Salmon (AZ) and Brad Sherman (CA), the chair and ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific; Rep. Steve Chabot (OH) former chair of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific; and Rep. Joe Crowley (NY), Democratic Caucus Vice-Chairman; made the following statement condemning recent arrests in Burma and the threats to freedom of expression in that country […]
• • •Statement No (14/2015) Statement regarding the visit to the Prison and Police Lockup of Kaw Thaung Township and Myeik Township Situated in Tanintharyi Region
1. Commission Members U Zaw Win and Dr. Nyan Zaw accompanied by the Staff of Myanmar National Human Rights Commission visited the Prison and Police Lockup of Kaw Thaung Township and Myeik Township situated in Tanintharyi Region from 7 to 9 October 2015 […]
• • •ျမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္စစ္ေၾကာင္း၏ ႏိုင္ထက္စီးနင္းထုိးေဖာက္တိုက္ခုိက္ေနမႈအေပၚ SSPP/SSA၏ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္
သေဘာထားေၾကညာခ်က္ ျမန္မာဘာသာကို ဤေနရာတြင္ ေဒါင္းလုပ္ရယူႏိုင္ပါသည္။
• • •စည္းလုံးညီညြတ္ေသာ တုိင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ိဳးမ်ား အဟာမိတ္အဖဲြ႔ ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္
ယေန႔ကာလသည္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြက္ အလြန္အေရးၾကီးေသာ ကာလတစ္ခုျဖစ္သည္။ ျပည္တြင္းျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအတြက္တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလုံး ပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခုိက္မႈမ်ား ရပ္ဆုိင္းေရးစာခ်ဳပ္ကို လက္မွတ္ေရးထုိးခဲ့ေသာ ကာလတစ္ခုလည္းျဖစ္ပါသည္[…]
• • •AAPP Demand the Release of Social Media Activists
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) call for the immediate and unconditional release of Patrick Kum Jaa Lee and Chaw Sandi Tun who have been arrested and detained for mocking the Military on Facebook […]
• • •Human Rights Watch: Activists Charged for Mocking Military Online
(New York) – Burmese authorities should immediately release two people arrested this week for posting images on social media mocking the military, Human Rights Watch said today. The arrests took place in the run-up to the November 8, 2015 elections, with the military firmly in charge behind the scenes […]
• • •ASEAN parliamentarians warn of looming regional crisis resulting from systematic discrimination in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
BANGKOK, 16 October 2015 – Increasingly marginalized and desperate, Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State are being forced to flee in ever-greater numbers, exacerbating a regional crisis that ASEAN leaders are woefully ill prepared to cope with, ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) warned today […]
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