1 - 10 of 407 results for "Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights"

  1. 1. opinion | 18 Apr 2013

    Rights agency strives for relevance

    ASEAN

    Newspaper section: News

    » This month marks three years since the establishment of the Asean Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC).

  2. 2. news | 14 May 2013

    Human rights plan draws experts' fire

    SOCIAL JUSTICE

    By Achara Ashayagachat, Newspaper section: News

    » Critics have blasted the process behind the drafting of the national human rights master plan, as well as its contents.

  3. 3. news | 28 Apr 2013

    US blasts Thailand's human rights record

    Newspaper section: News

    » The US Department of State has released a highly critical report detailing what it regards as Thailand's human rights failings.

  4. 4. news | 20 Apr 2013

    Human rights in China worsening, US finds

    By AFP

    » China's human rights record worsened in 2012 amid an increasingly harsh crackdown on Tibetan and Uighur areas, the United States warned Friday in an annual report.

  5. 5. news | 06 Apr 2013

    Rights groups renew bail calls for Somyot

    LESE MAJESTE

    By Achara Ashayagachat, Newspaper section: News

    » A number of international human rights organisations have joined the chorus of rights groups demanding lese majeste convict Somyot Prueksakasemsuk be released or granted bail.

  6. 6. news | 27 Mar 2013

    Child safety call for KL meet

    By Lamphai Intathep, Newspaper section: News

    » Ensuring the safety of children in the deep South should be a key issue for discussion at tomorrow's peace talks in Malaysia, a human rights advocate said yesterday.Gothom Arya, director of Mahidol University's I...

  7. 7. news | 26 Mar 2013

    Asiana flight attendants win fight to wear trousers

    By AFP

    » Female flight attendants with South Korea's Asiana Airlines won a long-running battle to overturn a skirts-only dress code after the national human rights commission ruled it discriminatory.

  8. 8. news | 12 Apr 2013

    US pressed to seek rights improvements from Vietnam

    By AFP

    » Lawmakers and activists called Thursday for the United States to press Vietnam to free dissidents and allow greater religious freedom as the two nations hold talks on human rights.

  9. 9. news | 01 May 2013

    Rights group warns of 'cover up' in Nigeria bloodbath

    By AFP

    » Human Rights Watch on Wednesday released satellite images showing massive destruction in the Nigerian town of Baga, voicing concern that the military has "tried to cover up" abuses that should be investigated by the Inte...

  10. 10. news | 11 Apr 2013

    HRW backs Andy Hall in libel outcry

    LABOUR RIGHTS

    By Achara Ashayagachat, Newspaper section: News

    » New York-based Human Rights Watch has voiced its support for British labour rights advocate Andy Hall who is embroiled in a defamation case filed by a Thai fruit juice company.

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