Dakila, our member from the Philippines, published an active vista statement about the state of the Nation address 2021. 𝗗𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗔 – 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗳 𝗮 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗱 This year marks the last year of the Duterte administration and today, President Duterte will deliver his last State [ Read more ]

WOREC, our member from Nepal, in partnership with UNFPA, organised 3-days province-level case management training for the Gender-based violence (GBV) service providers. The training, which was conducted on 18th, 19th and 20th July, aimed to support GBV service providers in improving their understanding of and capacity in case management for survivors of GBV using the [ Read more ]

From 2001-2020, SUARAM, our member from Malaysia, documented only three cases where actions were taken against police officers responsible for deaths in custody. With 12 deaths in custody recorded this year alone, SUARAM is having a call to action so that the IPCMC ensure cases of deaths in custody stop! The need to create an [ Read more ]

Odhikar, our member from Bangladesh, has published a joint statement with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH): BANGLADESH: Investigate deadly factory fire, compensate victims Dhaka/Paris; 13 July 2021: Bangladeshi authorities should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into a deadly fire, make the findings of the investigation public, and prosecute all those responsible, [ Read more ]

25 July 2021 is the first anniversary of the death of human rights defender Azimzhan Askarov, who did not live to see a fair hearing of his case by an independent and impartial court and died in colony No. 47. He was 69 years old. The human rights community calls on the country’s authorities to [ Read more ]

Judicial System Monitoring Program (JSMP) relesaed Overview of the Judicial Sector 2020, a report detailing JSMP’s general observations and analysis of developments and challenges including relevant activities that have taken place in Timor Leste’s justice system in 2020. In 2020 JSMP monitored 733 cases. These cases comprised 710 criminal cases and 23 civil cases. This [ Read more ]

MONFEMNET National Network, our member from Mongolia, organised a training on “Capacity Building for Online Activism & Remote Work”, on 22 June 2021. The training was attended by MONFEMNET National Network’s members and representatives of other civil society organisations. The topics discussed during the training were: How to promote online activism? What kind of experiences [ Read more ]

Odhikar, our member from Bangladesh, has prepared a human rights monitoring report on Bangladesh based on the human rights situation in the country in the first three months of 2021 (April-June), where it focuses on issues such as democracy and the deprivation of freedom of expression and the right to life. For a PDF version of [ Read more ]

WOREC, our member from Nepal, developed a campaign to raise awareness of sexual and gender-based violence during armed conflict. To do this it collected a series of stories from survivors during the 10 years of armed conflict in Nepal. The stories were produced based on the conversations with the conflict survivors. Both security forces and [ Read more ]

Pusat KOMAS, our member from Malaysia, has developed a series of short films to demonstrate the situations of discrimination that migrants suffer in the country. “Are migrants not human? Do we put ourselves in their situation? Come and watch the short film “Jaguh Rasis di Kampung” in collaboration with Pusat KOMAS and HAS Production to [ Read more ]