Category: End Impunity
Thailand/Laos: Investigate the Killing of Lao Refugee and Put an End to Transnational Repression of Human Rights Defenders
Originally published at the Amnesty International’s website here. In response to news on 17...
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PRESS RELEASE: CRIMINALIZATION AGAINST FILIPINO PEASANTS REACHES THE UN
Download PDF Geneva, May 8, 2023 – The Movement for Agrarian Reform and Social Justice...
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Anousa “Jack” Luangsouphom, a young Lao blogger. Photo from https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073952982858.
[AEPF] FIND AND PUNISH ANOUSA’S ATTACKERS; END VIOLENCE AND IMPUNITY!
The Organising Committee of the Asia-Europe Peoples’ Forum (AEPF) expresses our shock and anger at...
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Book Launch: “Silencing of a Laotian Son – the Life, Work and Enforced Disappearance of Sombath Somphone”
On Tuesday, 14 December 2021, a book launch and discussion of “Silencing of a Laotian...
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Laos: Nine years on, civil society worldwide still demands answers on Sombath’s enforced disappearance
(15 December 2021) On the ninth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil...
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Lao national and 2005 Magsaysay Award recipient Sombath Somphone stands beside a poster of fellow awardee V. Shanta during a press conference in Manila, Philippines on Monday 29 August 2005. Photo: EPA/ROLEX DELA PENA
Civil society demand Laos government reveal Sombath’s fate
Laos: After eight years, civil society worldwide demands the government establish and reveal...
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EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan. CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2019 – Source: EP
Open Letter to EU Trade Commissioner on Philippines GSP+ Withdrawal
Note: This open letter was addressed to then-EU Trade Commissioner Paul Hogan on 1 September 2020....
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Democracy and Charisma: A Dangerous Liaison
Democracy in the Era of Charismatic Politics in India and the Philippines Talk delivered to...
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DUTERTE, THE SERPENT. His strongman rule ultimately serves the administration’s authoritarian and neoliberal agenda. United Peoples’ SONA. Quezon City, Philippines. 2019 July 22. Photo by Galileo de Guzman Castillo.
A Period of Consequences: The Era of Violence, Hardships, Betrayals, and Perversions under Duterte
Focus on the Global South’s Statement on President Rodrigo Duterte’s midterm State of the Nation...
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Laos: Six Years On, Civil Society Worldwide Demands Answers to the Enforced Disappearance of Sombath Somphone
14 December 2018: On the eve of the sixth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil...
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Justice for the TAMASCO 8 Massacre. Now.
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Read MoreEnd Impunity video project of Focus & iDefend to Receive Award
For its video on the situation of human rights in Asia, human rights violations in the form of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, Focus will receive a human rights award; the video received the most likes and...
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