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News Desk The Statesman Publication Date : 09-05-2013   To mount pressure on the government of India vis-a-vis the worsening condition of Tibetans in China-ruled Tibet, the Tibetan Parliament In Exi…

Prodita Sabarini The Jakarta Post Publication Date : 01-03-2013   Indonesian presidential spokesperson Julian Adrian Pasha is calling Human Rights Watch (HRW) “naive” for its report released on Thur…

Bagus BT Saragih The Jakarta Post Publication Date : 27-02-2013   Indonesian Human Rights defenders have expressed their suspicions that the government’s recent initiative to hold discussions on the…

Shin Hyon-hee The Korea Herald Publication Date : 27-02-2013   Momentum is building fast among UN members to form an independent panel to probe the human rights record in North Korea as the despotic…

Anil Giri The Kathmandu Post Publication Date : 22-02-2013   As Nepal’s human rights record comes under increasing scrutiny from international quarters, senior Nepali government officials, including…

News Desk The Jakarta Post Publication Date : 18-02-2013   Hundreds of Indonesian housemaids rallied at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle in Central Jakarta yesterdat, demanding that the government…

News Desk Vientiane Times Publication Date : 11-02-2013   A high-ranking European Union (EU) official has congratulated Laos on the achievements it has made in promoting and protecting human rights,…

News Desk Vientiane Times Publication Date : 11-02-2013   A high-ranking European Union (EU) official has congratulated Laos on the achievements it has made in promoting and protecting human rights,…

Asean leaders have adopted the Asean Human Rights Declaration at the 21st Asean Summit here in Phnom Penh. Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak signed on behalf of the Malaysian government at t…

Pledging to promote and protect human rights along with democracy, rule of law and good governance, 10 Asean leaders adopted the first human rights declaration in the region amid criticism that it f…

The United States urges Nepal to look into the issue of Tibetan refugees through both humanitarian and human rights perspectives. Comments from the visiting Under Secretary for Civil, Democracy and …

The United States urges Nepal to look into the issue of Tibetan refugees through both humanitarian and human rights perspectives. Comments from the visiting Under Secretary for Civil, Democracy and …

A new report released globally yesterday indicates that millions of people around the world find that their rights to access family planning are still denied. United Nations Population Fund's ne…

The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), an Indonesian non-governmental organisation advocating human rights issues, has received the Emilio F. Mignone International Hum…

The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), an Indonesian non-governmental organisation advocating human rights issues, has received the Emilio F. Mignone International Hum…

The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Navanethem Pillay has called on Asean leaders to suspend the adoption of the first-ever human rights declaration. Pillay has suggested Asean unde…

The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Navanethem Pillay has called on Asean leaders to suspend the adoption of the first-ever human rights declaration. Pillay has suggested Asean unde…

The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Navanethem Pillay has called on Asean leaders to suspend the adoption of the first-ever human rights declaration. Pillay has suggested Asean unde…

Indonesian Attorney General Basrief Arief said the systematic persecution of alleged members of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) after the failed 1965 coup was not a gross human rights violation…

The first-ever Asean human rights declaration, which will be adopted by 10 member states during the Asean Summit on November 18 to 20 in Cambodia will not provide a legal basis to guarantee the prot…