21st March 2020 marks the 60th International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Born from the anti-Apartheid struggle, the spirit of non-discrimination emanated by the martyrs 60 years ago is stressing for...
(Bangkok/Jakarta, 20 March 2020) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, together with the Solidarity for ASEAN Peoples’ Advocacy and the undersigned organisations, are gravely concerned with the lack of a human rights focus in the current response to the...
(Bangkok, 4 March 2020) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), its member-organisations in Malaysia, Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) and Pusat KOMAS, and the undersigned organisations call on the...
We are pleased to invite you to the launch of the campaign to speed up the process of the ratification of the International Convention of Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).
The villagers from various villages in Balai Ringin had been protested outside Wisma Pelita since 14th of May 2012. They had camped outside the Wisma Pelita demanding for the Land and Survey Department to recognize their NCR land title and give back their land back to the villagers. The land grabs involve more than 10 villages around Balai Ringin and the size of the land is more than 10,000 hector. According to a source, the villages that were affected by this are Kampung Menyang, Kampung...
JOM PANTAU is now the official election monitoring platform of BERSIH 2.0 and stands on BERSIH 2.0’s eight key demands for clean, free and fair elections and the Election Offences 1954 Act 5. This initiative is carried out in cooperation with the Malaysian Election Observers Network (MEO-Net), Southeast Asian Centre for e-Media (SEACEM), the National Institute for Democracy and Electoral Integrity (NIEI). NOW we are announcing the second “Election Observer” Workshop focusing on understanding...