Category: Media Monitoring
Going backwards: The death penalty in Southeast Asia
(Paris, 10 October 2016) Over the past year, Southeast Asia has witnessed significant setbacks with regard to the abolition of the death penalty, FIDH said in a new report published today, on the occasion of the 14th World Day Against the Death Penalty. The report, titled “Going backwards: The death penalty in Southeast Asia,” provides […]
West Bengal peace activists call for talks
Eighty peace activists, leaders, eminent citizens from West Bengal call for India Pakistan dialogue to secure peace: A N A P P E A L We the following signatories from West Bengal are deeply concerned about the escalating tension between the two neighbouring countries, India and Pakistan, and the jingoism in support of armed conflict […]
SAHR statement on the postponement of the SAARC Summit
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, is deeply concerned about the postponement of the 19th South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit which was scheduled to be held in Pakistan in November 2016. We understand that this is due to the decision made by the Prime Minister […]
“Guinea: waiting for justice” – Victims of State violence testify
(Conakry, 27 September 2016) Seven years after the 28 September 2009 massacre, FIDH and OGDH want to pay tribute and listen to the thousands of victims of the Guinea state violence. The two organisations invited the English photographer Tommy Trenchard to meet with the victims who they have been supporting since 2009 in their quest […]
Thailand: Immediately drop sedition case and all proceedings against human rights lawyer Sirikan Charoensiri
Geneva, Paris, 3 October 2016 – The Thai Government should immediately drop all proceedings against human rights lawyer, Sirikan Charoensiri, including the specious accusation of sedition, which apparently relate to her organization’s representation of 14 student activists peacefully protesting in June 2015, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Asian Forum […]
The Human Rights Council takes responsible action to prevent the worst in Burundi
Geneva, Paris, 30 September 2016 – By adopting a resolution that condemns the serious crimes committed in Burundi, the UN Human Rights Council took responsible action to try and prevent the worst as the country is sliding further towards violence and the risk of genocide is real. This resolution also establishes an international commission of […]
Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez arbitrarily arrested and denied due process rights
(Bangkok-Dhaka-Geneva-Madurai-Paris-Quezon City,) Our organisations strongly condemn today’s arbitrary arrest of Kashmiri human rights defender Mr. Khurram Parvez, and call for his immediate and unconditional release. On September 16 at 12:30 am, police officers came to Khurram Parvez’s home in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir, arrested him without presenting a warrant, and took him to the Kothi […]
Harassment of human rights defender Dr. Rubina Feroze Bhatti and closure of her organisation
On 2 September 2016, a team of police was seen in the vicinity of the home of the human rights defender Dr. Rubina Feroze Bhatti, and questioned her house maid of her whereabouts. The previous day, the NGO of the human rights defender, Taangh Wasaib Organization (TWO) was shut down by police and 8 of […]
Declaration of the FIDH Congress in solidarity with human rights defenders at risk
The 39th FIDH Congress, meeting in Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa) from 25 to 27 August 2016, wishes to express its solidarity and its support with human rights defenders who, across the planet, are subjected to harassment, attacks, repression and criminalisation for promoting human rights. Stressing that safety of human rights defenders is especially precarious […]
Supreme Court validation of military court trials a blow to the rule of law and human rights
Geneva, August 29: The Pakistani Supreme Court today rejected 16 petitions by families of people sentenced to death by military courts on fair trial grounds. The Court has held the petitioners failed to prove the military courts’ proceedings violated their constitutional right to a fair trial. As highlighted by the ICJ in a briefing paper […]
