8 July 08 - While the Australian government insists that important progress was made in the first year of its controversial "emergency response" in the Northern Territory — ostensibly to protect indigenous children from abuse — activists are calling for affected communities to be (...) Read

7 July 08 - Press release from RSF/IFEX - Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association (BMA) have called for the immediate release from prison of celebrated journalist U Win Tin, whose health has deteriorated badly in the past few days. The 78-year-old is suffering from lung problems with (...) Read

6 July 08 - A newly-Maoist Nepal is still finding its bearings, says Swiss development consultant Thania Paffenholz, who has just returned from the fledgling republic. Read

12 June 08 - U.N. officials are giving the impression that the world body is making headway in helping the millions of survivors in Burma’s cyclone-hit Irrawaddy Delta. Read

10 June 08 - Last April, the Philippines was submitted to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the Human Rights Council. According to Marie Hilao Enriquez, the Secretary General of Karapatan, a local Philippine human rights defense organization, political assassinations and forced disappearances (...) Read

9 June 08 - The detention of a prominent comedian in Burma points to an ominous turn of events in the military-ruled country. It has reportedly become a ‘crime’ for individuals and civil society groups to provide emergency relief to the hundreds of thousands of cyclone (...) Read

6 June 08 - Sri Lanka, where a civil war is raging, was not re-elected to the Human Rights Council last month. But now the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions has accused the UN of doing nothing to put an end to this explosive (...) Read

5 June 08 - Tibet’s longest serving political prisoner and a symbol of resistance to Chinese rule addressed the 8th session of the Human Rights Council Wednesday (June 4). Despite spending 32 years in various prison camps, 82-year old Takna Jigme Sangpo is far from being chastized by this (...) Read

4 June 08 - Release from Human Rights Watch – Two prominent Chinese lawyers who offered to represent Tibetans face the loss of their professional licenses as part of a recent drive to threaten lawyers and law firms, Human Rights Watch said today. The government’s unprecedented efforts to (...) Read

4 June 08 - The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), a 32-year-old Indian human- rights group, has decried India’s judiciary for refusing bail to ‘jungle doctor’ and human rights activist Binayak Sen. Sen is widely-respected for his 30 years of healthcare work among tribals in (...) Read