Asia
We work alongside local and international organizations and human rights defenders to protect civic space and promote accountability for serious human rights violations in South and South East Asia. From advocating for freedom of expression and the right to protest to an end to the use of torture, enforced disappearance, and arbitrary detention, we support international justice efforts.
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Child Labor
Students examine the conditions and causes of child labor in South Asia, Ecuador, and the U.S.
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Bangladesh: Officials Linked to Hundreds of ‘Disappearances’
Human rights groups urge action on International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearance.
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Changing the Narrative: Freedom From Violence and Freedom of Expression
Learners gain a greater understanding of the human rights violations of the North Korean government.
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Standing Up for Human Rights in China
Through Harry Wu’s story, students will be able to provide examples of dehumanization, understand how labor camps deny human rights, and learn to find the courage to stand up for their beliefs.
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China, Tibet, and a Message of Non-Violence
Learners examine the conflict between China and Tibet, religious freedom, and nonviolence as a solution to conflict.
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Promoting Change and Understanding Through Non-Violent Means
Students read excerpts from Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo's Nobel Peace Prize lecture and analyze the struggle of the people in East Timor.
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In Solidarity with the Uyghur Community
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights strongly condemns the perpetration of gross violations of human rights against Uyghur and other Muslim minority communities.
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Hold Bangladesh Security Forces Accountable for Torture
The Bangladesh government has failed to address widespread allegations of torture and cruelty by its security forces. It's time for the UN to take action.
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Civil Society Groups Call for Immediate Release of Myanmar Activist
Tags Share We are deeply concerned over reports of a brutal shooting and arrest of activist Man Zar Myay Mon in Shan Htoo Village in Sagaing Region, Myanmar on June 8, 2021. Man Zar Myay Mon is a member of the Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability (MATA) and an Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)…
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Global Civil Society Statement on Myanmar
Tags Share We, the undersigned organizations, call on the United Nations Security Council to urgently impose a comprehensive global arms embargo on Myanmar to help prevent further violations of human rights against peaceful protesters and others opposing military rule. In recent weeks, Myanmar security forces have killed hundreds of people, including dozens of children, merely…
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UN: Stand with Bangladeshi Journalists on Press Freedom Day
Tags Share New York, NY (May 3, 2021)–The Bangladesh government’s increasingly violent crackdown on media freedom is of urgent concern on World Press Freedom Day, nine nongovernmental organizations said in a letter today to Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Bachelet and UN experts should publicly and vigorously express concerns over…
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Bangladesh: ‘Golden Jubilee’ Should Be Turning Point on Human Rights
Tags Share (New York, March 26, 2021) – Governments joining the celebrations to mark the 50th Founding Anniversary of Bangladesh and to honor the birth centenary of independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on March 26, 2021, should know that Bangladeshis are enduring an escalating crackdown on human rights by the Awami League-led government, a group…
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