BANGKOK (2 February 2018) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Monday begins official visits to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji, at the invitation of the respective governments. From 5 to 7 February, High Commissioner Zeid will be in Jakarta, where he is due to meet President Joko Widodo […]
BANGKOK (29 November 2017) – The UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia has called on the Government of Thailand to release and drop charges against all those arrested during a peaceful demonstration against the construction of a 2200 MW coal powered plant in Songkla province, in southern Thailand. On Monday 27 November, around 100 […]
BANGKOK (20 October 2017) – The UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia calls on the Government of Singapore to drop the charges against performance artist and activist Mr. Seelan Palay, a Singaporean national, in relation to a peaceful performance that he staged in front of the Parliament House in Singapore on 1 October. The […]
BANGKOK (15 Sept 2017) – The UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia on Friday welcomed a court’s decision to award 1.7 million Thai baht to 14 Myanmar migrant workers subjected to rights abuses, and called on Thailand authorities to immediately drop criminal charges filed against them. The migrants alleged that they had to work […]
BANGKOK (1 August 2017) – The UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia urges the Thai Government to allow women human rights defenders to conduct their work without fear, and to drop cases against the activists helping to protect community rights. On 27 July, Suphap Kamlae, the wife of prominent land rights defender Den Kamlae […]
BANGKOK (12 July 2017) – The UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia calls on the Singaporean Government to halt the imminent execution of Malaysian national Prabagaran Srivijayan for a drugs related offence, and urges the Government to immediately instate a moratorium on the use of the death penalty. On 6 July 2017, Mr. Srivijayan […]
BANGKOK (23 June 2017) – The UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia (OHCHR) is alarmed by the harsh sentencing of three activists in Lao PDR and calls for their release. Based on an official document recently obtained, Mr. Somphone Phimmasone, Mr. Soukan Chaithad, and Ms. Lodkham Thammavong were convicted in late March 2017 to […]
BANGKOK (7 June 2017) – The UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia welcomed the orderly conduct of voting in the communal elections held across Cambodia on 4 June, and expressed hope that the smooth and peaceful poll bodes well for the democratic process ahead of next year’s general election. “We are pleased to have […]
BANGKOK (23 May 2017) – The United Nations Human Rights Office for South-East Asia expresses serious concern regarding the recent disappearances of community workers Amri Che Mat and Raymond Keng Joo Koh, and urges Malaysian authorities to urgently investigate the abductions of the two men associated with religious minority groups. Mr. Che Mat, founder of […]
BANGKOK (5 May 2017) – The UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia on Friday expressed serious concern about the arrests in Malaysia of three Turkish nationals on security related charges, and urges the Malaysian Government to refrain from deporting them to Turkey. “There are concerns that these men may have been targeted over their […]
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