ACTIVITIES & EVENTS
ACTIVITIES & EVENTS
The Asia Justice Coalition works as a collective to amplify our members’ initiatives and their
efforts to advance international justice and human rights in Asia. We, therefore, provide
aggregated and updated information and news on the Coalition’s projects, activities and events.
The Asia Justice Coalition works as a collective to amplify our members’ initiatives and their
efforts to advance international justice and human rights in Asia. We, therefore, provide
aggregated and updated information and news on the Coalition’s projects, activities and events.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
Feb 5, 2021
Human Rights Watch: ‘End Crackdown in Media, Communications’
AJC Member Human Rights Watch urged Myanmar’s military junta to immediately lift internet restrictions, release all persons detained since the coup on 1 February 2021, and end harassment and threats of arrests of journalists.
Feb 1, 2021
New York Times: ‘Myanmar’s Coup in Pictures’
A photographic account of the coup that took place in Myanmar on 1 February 2021.
Jan 25, 2021
Human Rights Council: ‘Third Cycle Universal Periodic Review – Myanmar’
Myanmar’s human rights record will be examined by the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group for the third time on 25 January 2021. The documents on which the reviews are based are 1) national report – information provided by the State under review; 2) information contained in the reports of independent human rights experts and groups, known as the Special Procedures, human rights treaty bodies, and other UN entities; 3) information provided by other stakeholders including national human rights institutions, regional organizations and civil society groups.
Nov 4, 2020
Burma Human Rights Network Launches Report: ‘Free and Fair for Some: Discrimination and Hate Speech in Burma’s Election Campaign’.
The report documented several cases of hate speech and disinformation about the 2020 general election in Myanmar.
Nov 1, 2020
BROUK Published Brief: ‘Dereliction of Duty: International Inaction over Myanmar’s Noncompliance with ICJ Provisional Measures’
In this brief, AJC Member BROUK provided an overview of the The Gambia v Myanmar proceedings before the International Court of Justice and elaborated on Myanmar’s failure to comply with the ICJ’s provisional measures order in the backdrop of current developments in Rakhine State.