Jakarta, 15 December 2015—Children as victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) is growing as the demand for child sex escalates. UNICEF and UNFPA estimate that 2 million children are exploited in prostitution and pornography every year. Many children rescued from red light districts were reportedly infected with HIV/AIDS and therefore could not reintegrate […]
Tokyo, 13 December 2015—The World Wide Support for Development (WSD) together with the Human Rights Resource Centre (HRRC) and WSD HANDA Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University (WSDHC) co-organized the first WSD Global Human Rights Summit in Japan, with a special focus on trafficking in persons. The event was held in […]
Jakarta, 7 December 2015—In commemoration of the upcoming Human Rights Day, which is on 10 December, the Indonesian Representative for AICHR and the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Indonesia held a viewing of “Timbuktu” followed by a discussion on “Freedom of Religion and Belief and the Challenge of Intolerance in ASEAN.” It was […]
Quezon City, 17 November 2015—On the 17th of November, Her Excellency Michelle Bachelet spoke at a “Women and Youth Dialogue” hosted at the Miriam College in Quezon City, Philippines. The President of Chile was in Manila for the APEC Summit and attended the 4th National Women’s Summit as guest of honour. In an auditorium packed with […]
Yogyakarta, 9 November 2015—In the first joint workshop hosted by the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime (SOMTC), discussions focused on ensuring a rights-based approach to combatting trafficking in persons, particularly women and children, in the region. The ASEAN is making significant strides in addressing trafficking in […]
Provo, 8 October 2015—Organised by the International Center for Law and Religion Studies and held at the Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA, the 22nd Annual Symposium considered the role of religion and religious freedom in resolving social and political conflict. Around 90 scholars, jurists, and political and civil society leaders from around 40 countries explored the […]
Bangkok, 4 October 2015—The HRRC participated in a Conference on Freedom of Religion or Belief (FORB) in Southeast Asia held on 30 September to 1 October 2015 by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), and Boat People SOS (BPSOS) in Bangkok. The conference was attended by the […]
Jakarta, 29 September 2015—The organizers of the 2015 Summer Institute have issued a Synthesis Report on the discussions and activities at this year’s annual event. Themed “Preventing Slavery and Trafficking in Persons in the ASEAN,” the Summer Institute was held from the 11th to the 14th of August 2015 in Bali, Indonesia. It comprised a 2.5-day workshop and half […]
On January 2015, the Human Rights Resource Centre published “Keeping the Faith: A Study of Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion in ASEAN.” The Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Thailand country reports have been translated to Khmer, Bahasa Indonesia, Burmese, and Thai, respectively. The original report and the translations can be downloaded below. Keeping the Faith: […]
Denpasar, 13 August 2015—The third day of the Summer Institute on International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights began with a panel titled “The ASEAN as Anti-Trafficking Actor: Supporting the AICHR and ACWC in fulfilling the Trafficking Convention and the ASEAN Action Plan.” His Excellency Rafendi Djamin, the AICHR Indonesian Representative and Her Excellency Datin Paduka […]
