Category: Media Monitoring
Indonesia: Planned executions “a shameful stain” for President Widodo
Paris, Jakarta, 24 April 2015 – The planned execution of 10 inmates convicted of drug-related offenses is a shameful stain on President Joko Widodo’s policymaking, FIDH and its member organization KontraS said today. The two organizations reiterate their appeal to President Widodo for a halt to all executions and the commutation of all death sentences. […]
Pakistan: Dismay after assassination of Ms. Sabeen Mahmud in Karachi
Paris-Geneva, 27 April 2015 – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a joint programme of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture OMCT) expresses its dismay over the assassination of Ms. Sabeen Mahmud on 24 April 24 2015 in Karachi, and calls upon Pakistan authorities to investigate and bring the perpetrators of […]
STATEMENT on Sabeen Mahmud’s murder From concerned members of LUMS faculty and student body
Last night, we heard the shocking news of Sabeen Mahmud’s callous murder in Karachi following a debate on Balochistan. The debate, held at T2F, was entitled “Unsilencing Balochistan – Take 2”. As is now well known, this session was inspired by a roundtable on Balochistan to be held at LUMS on 9 April with the […]
For Immediate Release
(Islamabad/Bangkok, 27 April 2015) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), together with its Pakistani member Bytes for All, strongly condemns the killing of Sabeen Mahmud. The groups also call on the government of Pakistan to ensure the protection of human rights defenders and bring perpetrators of the brutal murder of Sabeen […]
SAHR PRESS STATEMENT ON ENFORCED OR INVOLUNTARY DISAPPEARENCES IN THE SOUTH ASIAN REGION
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a democratic regional network, discussed common issues of human rights across the sub-region with special reference to enforced or involuntary disappearances. Experts including civil society activists, lawyers, as well as family members of victims of enforced disappearances participated in the discussion. The International Convention for the Protection of All […]
Spain Gags Freedom of Expression and Assembly and Restricts the Right to Asylum
Paris, 31 March 2015 – Despite fierce opposition from civil society, all opposition parties, Spanish public opinion, as well as condemnation from the United Nations and the Council of Europe, Spain adopted last Thursday 26 March the Basic Law for the Protection of Public Security, considered by many as a black day for democracy. The […]
Palestine: New report documents international crimes committed during Operation Protective Edge
Paris, 27 March 2015 – In a report published today entitled “Trapped and Punished: The Gaza Civilian Population under Operation Protective Edge”, FIDH presents evidence consistent with the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Israeli military during Operation Protective Edge (July-August 2014). Our organisation, the first international human rights NGO to […]
No transparency, no fairness, no freedom : elections in Uzbekistan will be a masquerade
Paris, 27 March 2015 – On March 29, the Presidential elections will take place in Uzbekistan for the fourth time since country’s independence. FIDH expresses its deepest concern about the lack of transparency, fairness and freedom in the up-coming elections. All previous votes in 1991, 2000, and 2007 were marked by a landslide victory of […]
Morocco: Between Round-ups and Regulations Report on a Vacillating Migration Policy
30 March 2015 – The Moroccan government should move forward with the migration policy it began implementing in September 2013 and not backtrack, stated FIDH and the GADEM during the presentation of a paper published today in Rabat which reviews the first year of the new migration policy. In this document our organisations welcome the […]
Human rights organisations alarmed by bill that will give surveillance agencies dangerous new powers
Paris, 25 March 2015 – FIDH, Privacy International, Amnesty International, the French League for Human Rights (LDH), and Reporters Without Borders are alarmed by the expansive surveillance powers to be granted to surveillance agencies contained in a Bill transferred to the French parliament on Friday. Under the new law, French intelligence agencies would be empowered […]
