INDONESIA/WEST PAPUA: Emanuel Gobay, the Director of LBH Papua describes the Oneibo shooting in 2017 as a typical example of widespread and ongoing impunity among security forces in West Papua READ MORE For more news on human rights in West Papua, CLICK HERE
PHILIPPINES: Eleven organisations urge end to unlawful killings of land and environmental activists increasingly targeted for opposing industrial projects READ THE STATEMENT
THAILAND: NGO urges authorities to protect human rights defenders from judicial harassment and drop criminal defamation charges brought by Thammakaset against Angkhana Neelapaijit READ MORE
BANGLADESH Human Rights Watch urges UN to probe 86 disappearances "Where No Sun Can Enter: A Decade of Enforced Disappearances" (also see profile of Binota Moi Dhamai above) READ MORE
THAILAND: FIDH documents arbitrary detention of eight pro-democracy activists READ MORE
CAMBODIA: Indigenous peoples express concern about threat to land and forest from land encroachment on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples READ MORE
AUSTRALIA: Human Rights Watch says the government should act to prevent Covid-19 Delta from having devastating outcomes for vulnerable First Nations and prisoner populations READ MORE |