FORUM-ASIA Statement on the 2015 International Human Rights Day

(Bangkok, 10 December 2015) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) joins the national and international community in celebrating today the 67th anniversary of the International Human Rights Day. Today, more than ever, FORUM-ASIA stands in firm solidarity with all human rights groups and movements that are restlessly striving for better promotion and protection of human rights in Asia […]

Statement No.(16/2015) Statement by Myanmar National Human Rights Commission on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day which falls on 10 December 2015

1. Together with the International Community, Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) would like to honour this historic International Human Rights Day which falls on 10 December 2015 […]

အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေန႔ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္

အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေၾကညာစာတမ္းကို ကမၻာ့ကုလသမဂၢက အတည္ျပဳျပဌာန္း ခဲ့ေသာေန႔သည္ ယေန႔ ၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ (၁၀) ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း (၆၇) ႏွစ္ ျပည့္ေျမာက္ခဲ့ၿပီ ျဖစ္သည္။ ပထမဆံုးေသာ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာလူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေၾကညာစာတမ္း၏ အေျခခံမူ၀ါဒမ်ားက လူသားမ်ားသည္ ေမြးရာပါျဖစ္သည့္ လူ႔ဂုဏ္သိကၡာအတိုင္းလိုအပ္သည့္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးမ်ားကို ခဲြျခားျခင္း မရွိဘဲ လူတိုင္း ခံစားခြင့္ရွိေၾကာင္း တိတိက်က်ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္ […]

2015 Palm Campaign: “Even Though I’m Free I Am Not”

The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) and the Former Political Prisoner Society (FPPS) are calling on supporters from across the world to take photographs of their participation in our 2015 Palm Campaign. The campaign aims to show the Government of Burma, in the run up the 2015 elections, that the international community stands in solidarity with political prisoners, and demands lasting reform in Burma […]

Statement On the International Human Rights Day

1. On the auspicious occasion of the International Human Rights Day, the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) joins the people of Myanmar and the international community in commemorating this historic day […]

၆၆ ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာ လူ႔အခြင္႔အေရးေန႔တြင္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေသာ ၈၈ မ်ဳိးဆက္( ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွင္႔ ပြင္႔လင္းလူ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္း )၏ သေဘာထား ေၾကညာခ်က္

Statement No. (4/2013) On the International Human Rights Day

1. On the International Human Rights Day, the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) joins the international community in celebrating this auspicious day […]

Participation and Inclusion in Burma, Empty Words

Today, 10 December marks the United Nations’ Human Rights Day. This year’s theme is inclusion and the right to participate in public life, but these concepts are conspicuously absent in Burma today, as recent events have proved.

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) identifies inclusion and the right to participate in public life as “essential elements in achieving the full range of human rights for all of us… the fulfillment of the right to participate is fundamental to the functioning of a democracy and an effective human rights protection system. When the right to participate and inclusion are respected, each and every one of us is offered the opportunity to join in the debate, to offer ideas and to campaign for change.”

To commemorate this day, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi joined the OHCHR’s event in Geneva as the keynote speaker via satellite, serving as both an advocate for participation in public life and an example of a person and a place where this right to participation was, and in many cases still is, absent. One of the largest challenges facing Burma today and in the future is whether the government is willing and able to provide this basic human right of inclusion and participation to all of its citizens […]

Statement (8/2012) of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission on the International Human Rights Day

One of the most important declarations of humanity, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, was adopted on 10 December, 1948 and the day has been designated as the International Human Rights Day.

The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission joins today the international human rights community in celebrating this auspicious day […]

CSW Calls for Increased Protection of Freedom of Religion or Belief on Human Rights Day

On Human Rights Day, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) welcomes the increased global attention on the right to freedom of religion or belief in the past year, and encourages the international community to translate this into action to protect and promote this universal human right […]