Professor Nolan, Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), is among the world's leading business and human rights academics and practitioners. She teaches in the Faculty of Law & Justice at UNSW and was training on DTP's business and human rights program for many years before joining the DTP's Board of Directors in 2015.

“DTP is building up a well-trained, educated, aware community pushing the issues in the Asia-Pacific region. Change is often most effective when it happens from within. That's what DTP is doing. It's helping people, empowering people to lead the change themselves.”

Andress is the founder and CEO of Punya Harapan (“Have Hope”), an Indonesian civil society organisation fostering access to vocational education for juveniles in Indonesia’s prisons. He is currently in the US undertaking a prestigious ten-month long Hubert Humphrey Fellowship, a US state department-funded global program aimed at enhancing leadership among international professionals to promote human rights and freedoms, among other objectives.

“This was a life-changing experience for me. Through this process, I had the chance to connect with influential participants, including child rights experts, the commissioners of child protection in Indonesia and others. These connections are beneficial for me. We are still connected. We are quite close now. So, DTP program not only connects us but also builds a relationship.” 

Waheed Ahmad, the Chair of the Child Protection Committee of Lahore Bar Association condemns the killing by a suicide bomber of scores of children at a Kabul girls’ school in a Hazara neighbourhood in Kabul

Emdadul Haque on the economic and social impacts of the Bangladesh responses in the face of COVID.

“I am happy to share that my paper has been published by Sumy State University, Ukraine. I have been receiving and reading the DTP E-Newsletter, since the inception of its publication.”

DTP alumni including Benedict Sakunil Mansul from Malaysia share case studies of Indigenous self-governance and determination at AIPP/IWGIA/CGP/DTP Conference

Louchrisha Hussain, Citizens' Constitutional Forum CEO has been selected to join the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (PIFS) team to observe the snap elections in Vanuatu

Congratulations to DTP alumni Anis Hidayah, Hari Kurniawan and Putu Elvina among the nine new Commissioners of the Indonesian Human Rights Commission (KomnasHAM)

Sudheer Thirunilath shares article by DTP alumnus Rejimon Kuttappan reporting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed slamming wage theft of migrant workers and endorsing MFA campaign to get justice

Sumitha Shaanthinni Kishna shares calls from Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) for foreign missions to do more to protect migrants workers’ rights READ MORE, and to sign an agreement with countries that supply foreign labour to Malaysia to prevent the exploitation of migrant workers

ASIA INDIGENOUS PEOPLES PACT: Asia Regional Conference/Dialogue on Indigenous Self-governance, Civic Space, Democracy and Pluralism took place in Chiang Mai Thailand, 28-29 September, with participants and case studies across Asia, Europe and Latin America. Organised in partnership with International Working Group Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), Global Centre on Pluralism (GCP) and DTP. AGENDA and SESSION 1 SPEAKER BIOS

FORUM-ASIA Annual Report 2021 available HERE

FORUM-ASIA Khin Ohmar video presentation at Dialogue with Special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar on systemic persecution against Rohingya and minorities VIEW HERE

BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTRE records over 100 cases of alleged labour and human rights abuses perpetrated against at least 60,800 garment workers in Myanmar READ MORE

CITIZENS' CONSTITUTIONAL FORUM submission to Fijian parliament on the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention) including for proper safeguards to be incorporated into the Convention and domestic legislation to protect fundamental human rights READ THE SUBMISSION

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Issue #159 October 2022

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