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Human Rights Issues Women[Updated!] / Indigenous peoples / Ethnic minorities / Refugees / Migrant workers / Caste discrimination / Human rights and development / Labor / Bonded labor / Child labor / Child rights / Psycho-social approach / Domestic violence / National security law / Peace / Right to information / Vienna Conference / World Conference Aginst Racism (WCAR) / Human rights concept / People with disabilities / Trafficking / Torture / HIV/AIDS Country and sub-region specific Afghanistan / Australia / Bangladesh / Bhutan / Burma / Cambodia / China / East Timor[Updated!] / Fiji / India / Indonesia / Iran / Japan / Korea / Malaysia / Nepal / Maldives[Updated!] / Pakistan / Papua New Guineia / Philippines / Qatar[New!] / Sri Lanka / Thailand / South Asia / Pacific <Women> Promoting and Protecting the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Women: The NHRI Mandate [New!] Violence Against Women: Bangladesh Context Rights in Law and in Practice: The Case of Bangladesh Building the Future with Women: The Challenges of National Reconstruction in Afghanistan Colloquium on Gender Justice and Personal Laws (Research and Documentation Cell Lawyer's Collective Women's Rights Initiative) Asia-Pacific Women's Informatization Networks (Mylene Soto) APF Workshop on Women's Rights (Press Statement of Commissioner Chris Sidoti) The Contending Discourses on Women in Iran (Farideh Farhi) The Voice of Japan's Working Women (Laura Lewellyn, Wittenberg University-Kansai Gaikokugo Daigaku) Culture, Women and Human Rights (Binai Srinivasan, Pipal Tree, Bangalore) Rights of Women Migrant Workers Back to this page's top <Indigenous peoples> Organized Move Emerging Indigenous Peoples Movement in Indonesia Ainu People Today - 7 Years after the Culture Promotion Law Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Resistance to Development and Militarization - Report on the Second Asian Indigenous Women's Conference In the Name of the Indigenous Peoples Living with the Past Japan and Multiculturalism Collective Rights in Asia Human Rights Situationer in the Pacific Report on a New Policy for the Ainu: A Critique (Hideaki Uemura) Back to this page's top <Ethnic minorities> Crisis in the Chittagong Hill Tracts - Bangladesh (Adilur Rahman Khan) Back to this page's top <Refugees> Bhutanese Refugee Verification: Serious Commitment or a Time-Buying Tactic? (Jagatmani Acharya) Refugees in Asia: A Human Rights Understanding (Roque Raymundo) Back to this page's top <Migrant workers> Invisible Victims of the Tsunami - Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand Protecting Foreigners in Japan: Some Proposals Human Rights, HIV and the Migrant Workers Rights of Women Migrant Workers Globalization and Migrant Workers Migrant Workers and Human Rights Migrant workers in Japan (Yuka Ishikawa) Back to this page's top <Caste discrimination> Dalits in Nepal: Story of Discrimination Conference on Dalit Discrimination Back to this page's top <Human rights and development> Editorial: Eviction Struggling for Housing Rights in Asian Cities Malaysian Plantation Workers and Judicial Recourse Enforcing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights "Development" in the Mekong Region Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and International Financial Institutions (Andre Frankovits) Human Rights and Debt Relief (Jefferson Plantilla, HURIGHTS OSAKA) Marginalization and Globalization: Commercialization Natural Resources in the Mekong Region (Satoru Matsumoto) Monitoring the Progressive Realization of Housing Rights (Maria Socorro I. Diokno) Globalization and Human Rights (Kamol Kamoltrakul, Forum-Asia) Freedom from Poverty: A Fundamental Human Right (James Gustave Speth, United Nations Development Programme) The Rights Way to Development World Bank and the NGOs Peace and Development Second Symposium on Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific The City Summit About APEC Housing Right Human Rights and APEC: Another Face of Developing Asia Beyond Geopolitics and Geoeconomics: Toward a New Relationship Between Asia and Europe Back to this page's top <Labor> ILO Standards in Asia Malaysian Plantation Workers (S. Arutchelvan and Mohanaran) Workers' Rights in the Age of Free Trade Back to this page's top <Bonded labor> A Fight against Kamaiya System: an Experience Review (Mukunda Raj Kattel) Back to this page's top <Child labor> Child Labor in Asia: A Review (Edelweiss F. Silan) Child Labor and India's Football-making Industry (India Committee of the Netherlands) Bangladeshi Child as Camel Jockey: An Inhuman Joke (Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association) Back to this page's top <Child rights> Children as Partners Children's Rights in Northeast Asia Fostering a Culture of Child Participation: The Case of Tsurugashima City Human Rights of Children in Cambodia: Focus on Trafficking Amending the Juvenile Law in Japan: -Ignoring the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Recommendations Not Toy Soldiers: Children in Armed Conflicts Asian Summit on Child Rights and the Media Back to this page's top <Psycho-social approach> Psycho-social Rehabilitation Towards Development (Tahirih Q. Ayn) Psychosocial Trauma and Rehabilitation Work in East Timor (Abilio Belo) Why Psychosocial Activities are Necessary (Abilio Belo) Back to this page's top <Domestic violence> Violence at Home Violence Against Women: Bangladesh Context Reflections on Women and Violence in Bangladesh (Saira Rahman) Back to this page's top <National security law> 50 Years is Enough (Sarah Chee - National Security Law Solidarity Campaign, Seoul) National Security Act Conference Back to this page's top <Peace> Searching for Peace in Aceh Crisis and Peace in Bougainville The Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law: A Document of Peace and Human Rights Reconstruction in East Timor: Critical Issues on UNTAET The Trickle-up Approach to Building Peace in Korea (Karin Lee) Back to this page's top <Right to information> Threats to Southeast Asia's Media: An Overview Accessing Information in South Asia (Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative) Asia-Pacific Women's Informatization Networks (Mylene Soto) HURIDOCS and the Asia-Pacific (Manuel Guzman) Back to this page's top <Vienna Conference> The Spirit of our Age and the Realities of our Time: Vienna Five Years Later (Clarence J. Dias, International Center for Law in Development) Back to this page's top <World Conference Aginst Racism (WCAR)> Coalition of Asia and the Pacific Cities Against Racism and Discrimination Ten-Point Commitment for Asia Pacific Combating Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance Integrated Strategy to Combat Racism, Discrimination, Xenophobia and Intolerance Asia Youth Network for Human Development Asian Youth Network for Human Development WCAR Follow-up Activities (Kazuhiro Kawamoto) Post-Durban Action in Asia-Pacific (Kazuhiro Kawamoto) Struggle Against Racism - Report on WCAR (Kazuhiro Kawamoto) From Kathmandu to Durban and Beyond (Kazuhiro Kawamoto) Regional Meeting on Anti-Racism Asian NGO Meeting for the WCAR (Kazuhiro Kawamoto) World Conference Against Racism Back to this page's top <Human rights concept> Human Rights and the 'Asian' Perspective (Akio Kawamura - HURIGHTS OSAKA) The Concept of Islamic State (Asghar Ali Engineer) Articulating Human Rights in the Context of Buddhist Ethics in Sri Lanka (Sasanka Perera, Univerity of Colombo) The Pacific Charter A New Area of Human Rights Work Our Common Humanity: Asian Charter on Human Rights Back to this page's top <People with disabilities> Rights of Disabled Persons and Japan Back to this page's top <Trafficking> Protecting Children Against Trafficking: Southeast Asian Guidelines Human Rights of Children in Cambodia: Focus on Trafficking South Asian Convention against Trafficking Trafficking, Migration, and Gender Insecurity Back to this page's top <Torture> Are Asian States Ready to Prevent Torture? : Looking at the UN Optional Protocol on Torture Back to this page's top <HIV/AIDS> Stigma and Discrimination AIDS-related Discrimination in Asia Stigma and Discrimination against PHAs: Some Cases Fighting Stigma and Discrimination against People Living with HIV and AIDS in the Philippines Back to this page's top Country and sub-region specific <Afghanistan> Building the Future with Women: The Challenges of National Reconstruction in Afghanistan Back to this page's top <Australia> Living with the Past Back to this page's top <Bangladesh> Violence Against Women: Bangladesh Context Rights in Law and in Practice: The Case of Bangladesh Reflections on Women and Violence in Bangladesh (Saira Rahman) A National Human Rights Commission for Bangladesh (A H Monjurul Kabir) Crisis in the Chittagong Hill Tracts - Bangladesh (Adilur Rahman Khan) Bangladeshi Child as Camel Jockey: An Inhuman Joke (Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association) Back to this page's top <Bhutan> Bhutanese Refugee Verification: Serious Commitment or a Time-Buying Tactic? (Jagatmani Acharya) Bhutan: Human Rights in Peril Back to this page's top <Burma> Invisible Victims of the Tsunami - Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand Visit to Myanmar (Burma) by the Australian Human Rights Commissioner (Press Statement of Commissioner Chris Sidoti) Back to this page's top <Cambodia> Human Rights of Children in Cambodia: Focus on Trafficking Back to this page's top <China> Children's Rights in Northeast Asia Human Rights and China Back to this page's top <East Timor> Ombudsman for Human Rights: The Case of Timor-Leste [New!] Reconstruction in East Timor: Critical Issues on UNTAET Psychosocial Trauma and Rehabilitation Work in East Timor (Abilio Belo) Back to this page's top <Fiji> The Fiji Human Rights Commission (Shameem Shaista) Back to this page's top <India> India After the Tsunami - The Rights of Affected People India: People's Union for Civil Liberties (Pushkar Raj) Child Labor and India's Football-making Industry (India Committee of the Netherlands) Indian Cultural Values and the Promotion of Human Rights (Sebasti L. Raj, SJ and Bansidhar Pradhan, Indian Social Institute, New Delhi) Culture, Women and Human Rights (Binai Srinivasan, Pipal Tree, Bangalore) Back to this page's top <Indonesia> Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation: Struggling for Democracy and its Own Sustainability (A. Patra M. Zen) Searching for Peace in Aceh Back to this page's top <Iran> The Contending Discourses on Women in Iran (Farideh Farhi) Back to this page's top <Japan> Children's Rights in Northeast Asia Fostering a Culture of Child Participation: The Case of Tsurugashima City Dialogue Among Citizens: Japan and Korea Amending the Juvenile Law in Japan: -Ignoring the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Recommendations Proposed Human Rights Commission in Japan: A Critique Ratifying the Rome Statute: Japan and the International Criminal Court Rights of Disabled Persons and Japan Protecting Foreigners in Japan: Some Proposals Japanese National Human Rights Commission (Human Rights Forum 21) Declaration of Human Rights in Japan The Voice of Japan's Working Women (Laura Lewellyn, Wittenberg University-Kansai Gaikokugo Daigaku) Japan and the 50th Anniversary of UDHR (Kenzo Tomonaga - Buraku Liberation Research Institute) Japan and Multiculturalism Japan and Cultural Development in East Asia - Possibilities of a New Human Rights Culture (Kinhide Mushakoji, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo) Report on a New Policy for the Ainu: A Critique (Hideaki Uemura) Migrant workers in Japan (Yuka Ishikawa) Back to this page's top <Korea> Children's Rights in Northeast Asia Dialogue Among Citizens: Japan and Korea Human Rights in Korea Not for the People! - The Controversy over the National Human Rights Commission in South Korea (National NGO Coalition for the Establishment of an Independent NHRC) 50 Years is Enough (Sarah Chee - National Security Law Solidarity Campaign, Seoul) Cultural Values and Human Rights : the Korean Perspective (Byung-Sun Oh - Sogang University, Seoul) Back to this page's top <Malaysia> Malaysian Plantation Workers and Judicial Recourse Human Rights Commission - The Malaysian Scenario (Chiam Heng Keng) Malaysian Plantation Workers (S. Arutchelvan and Mohanaran) Back to this page's top <Nepal> National Human Rights Commission Capacity- building Nepal Under Military Rule: The Undermining of Democracy and the Constitution Dalits in Nepal: Story of Discrimination National Human Rights Commission: Nepal Experience (Jogendra K Ghimire) A Fight against Kamaiya System: an Experience Review (Mukunda Raj Kattel) An Act without Action: A Nepalese Experience (Mukunda Kattel) Back to this page's top <Maldives> The National Human Rights Commission - The Maldives [New!] Back to this page's top <Pakistan> National Seminar on Human Rights Education - Pakistan) Back to this page's top <Papua New Guineia> Crisis and Peace in Bougainville Back to this page's top <Philippines> Fighting Stigma and Discrimination against People Living with HIV and AIDS in the Philippines Human Rights Behind Bars: The Manila City Jail Experience The Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law: A Document of Peace and Human Rights Peace and Development Back to this page's top <Qatar> The Qatari National Human Rights Committee: A Search for Evaluation [New!] Back to this page's top <Sri Lanka> Stigma and Discrimination against PHAs: Some Cases The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (S. Wijegoonawardena) Psycho-social Rehabilitation Towards Development (Tahirih Q. Ayn) Articulating Human Rights in the Context of Buddhist Ethics in Sri Lanka (Sasanka Perera, Univerity of Colombo) Harmonizing Asia's Cultural Values and Human Rights : The Validity of the Approach - Sri Lankan Experience (Basil Fernando, Asian Human Rights Commission) Back to this page's top <Thailand> The National Human Rights Commission Act in Thailand (Ken Bhattacharjee) Back to this page's top <South Asia> South Asia Workshop on Human Rights Education in Schools South Asian Context South Asian Convention against Trafficking South Asians for Human Rights Accessing Information in South Asia (Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative) Back to this page's top <Pacific> Converging Currents: Custom and Human Rights in the Pacific Frontline Human Rights Defenders at Local Level: Community Paralegals in the Pacific The Impact of Asia in Pacific Today (Lopeti Sinutuli l Pacific Concerns Resource Center) The Pacific Charter Human Rights Situationer in the Pacific Back to this page's top