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"Saving its Secrets" Government Repression in Andijan  new

This 45-page report documents intense government pressure on people who participated in the Andijan protests, families of refugees who fled Uzbekistan in the aftermath of the Andijan violence, and refugees who returned to Uzbekistan. Interrogations, constant surveillance, ostracism, and threats continued to generate new refugees from Andijan.

http://hrw.org/reports/2008/uzbekistan0508/

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Offside!: labour rights and sportswear production in Asia

This report considers 12 international sports brands - Adidas, ASICS, FILA, Kappa, Lotto, Mizuno, New Balance, Nike, Puma, Reebok, Speedo and Umbro - and examines the steps they take to ensure their suppliers in Asia allow workers to organise trade unions and bargain collectively for better wages and conditions. It gives a detailed description of each of the companies corporate social responsibility approaches and behaviour. (T Connor, K Dent, Oxfam, 2006)

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/trade/downloads/offside_sportswear.pdf

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How we shop until Chinese workers drop

In this column in the Independent, English journalist Johann Hari reports on the stifling of nascent worker protection laws in China. The culprits in this being western business groups who successfully lobbied the Chinese communist party to drop legislation designed to aid workers rights.

http://johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=1107

(Added: Mon May 07 2007   Hits: 211)

The Burmese people can't wait much longer

In this article, a Burmese former policial prisoner writes about his country, an 'aborted democracy' that the military regime call Myanmar. Tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS have reached their highest levels ever. The education system is a shambles. Inflation is rampant. To unblock the stalemate over humanitarian aid caused by the regime's pariah status, the only opposition has made overtures to the regime, only to be dismissed as 'terrorists.' The article outlines ways the international community can help. (Ludu Sein Win, International Herald Tribune, 23 May 2006)

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/23/opinion/edludu.php

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Watershed Anti-sweatshop Legislation Introduced in the U.S. Congress

For the first time, anti-sweatshop legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Congress which will prohibit the import, export or sale of sweatshop goods in the U.S. Up to this point, it has been the companies that have demanded and won all sorts of enforceable laws -intellectual property and copyright laws backed up by sanctions - to defend their corporate trademarks, labels and products. On Thursday, June 8, in what some believe will be looked back upon as a watershed moment Senator Byron Dorgan introduced Senate Bill 3485, "The Decent Working Conditions and Fair Competition Act" which will, for the first time, hold corporations legally accountable to respect the core International Labor Organization worker rights standards - no child labor, no forced labor, freedom of association, right to organize and bargain collectively and to decent working conditions. (NLC, 2006)

http://www.nlcnet.org/live/article.php?id=35

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"Walking on Thin Ice" Control, Intimidation and Harassment of Lawyers in China [pdf]

This 142-page report details consistent patterns of abuses against legal practitioners. These include intimidation, harassment, suspension of professional licenses, disbarment, physical assaults, and even arrest and prosecution when lawyers take politically sensitive cases, seek redress for abuses of power and wrongdoings by party or government agents, or challenge local power-holders (Human Rights Watch, 29 April 2008).

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/china0408/china0408web.pdf

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"With Friends Like These...": Human Rights Violations in Azad Kashmir

In Azad Kashmir, a region largely closed to international scrutiny until a devastating earthquake hit last year, the Pakistani government represses democratic freedoms, muzzles the press and practices routine torture. The 71 page report uncovers abuses by the Pakistani military, intelligence services and militant organizations. (Human Rights Watch, September 2006)

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/pakistan0906/

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7th RRRT Pacific Human Rights Awards

RRRT is seeking nominations and applications for the 7th RRRT Pacific Human Rights Awards in recognition of Pacific organisations that over the year 2006/7 have helped make our region a better place to live through promoting social and economic justice, defending human rights, promoting respect and understanding, or enhancing the dignity of the poor and disadvantaged. Deadline for nominations is the 9 November 2007.

http://www.rrrt.org

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A joint statement by 14 local and international NGOs on the present situation in Nepal

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), 7 March 2005. Statement adopted by 14 local, regional and international human rights bodies and academic institutions, who gathered in Bangkok, Thailand at the 4th International Criminal Court (ICC) Campaign Network Regional Meeting regarding the present situation in relation to human rights in Nepal.

http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2005/973

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A New Revolution? Chinese Working Classes Confront the Globalized Economy

The number of protests in China today, the vast majority of them by the working classes, is quite extraordinary. According to the Chinese government, "mass incidents, or demonstrations and riots," rose to 74,000 in 2004, up from just 10,000 a decade ago, and 58,000 in 2003. (Rob Weil, Oakland Institute, Summer 2006)

http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/?q=node/view/371

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After the Tsunami: Human Rights of Vulnerable Populations

After the Tsunami: Human Rights of Vulnerable Populations is based on interviews conducted by research teams in March and April 2005 with hundreds of tsunami survivors, government officials, human rights activists, and aid workers in five tsunami-affected countries-India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and Thailand.

http://www.eastwestcenter.org/res-rp-publicationdetails.asp?pub_ID=1961

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Anti-terrorism Measures, Security and Human Rights: Developments in Europe, Central Asia and North America in the Aftermath of September 11 (PDF)

Report by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF).- "In the months that have passed since the tragedy, states have inter alia increased the powers of law enforcement and intelligence institutions, including to interrogate and detain persons, to intercept private communications and to conduct searches of private homes and personal property without the normal procedural safeguards; have tightened border controls that impede access to their territory and adopted new, restrictive asylum and immigration measures that may limit access for bona fide asylum seekers; and have authorized various registration and profiling schemes that appear to target certain groups solely because of their race, ethnicity or religion."

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/anti-terrorism.pdf

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Asia Monitor Resource Centre

Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC) is an independent non-government organization (NGO) which focuses on Asian labour concerns. Founded in 1976, AMRC has been leading the way in promoting workers' rights and democratic labour movements in Asia and the Pacific for over 25 years now. The Centre supports a democratic and independent labour movement promoting the principles of labour rights, gender consciousness, and active workers' participation. AMRC provides information, consultation, publications, documentation, and internships, and conducts research, training, advocacy, campaigns, labour networking, and related services to trade unions, pro-labour groups, related NGOs, academics, researchers, and professionals on labour issues.

http://www.amrc.org.hk/

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Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions

The Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions opens up important new avenues for strengthening human rights observance and advancing human rights protection for the peoples of the region in a constructive and cooperative environment. It provides a framework of regional cooperation for the development and implementation of practical programs which aim to genuinely improve the enjoyment of human rights by individuals and vulnerable groups.

http://www.asiapacificforum.net/

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Asian Center for the Progress of Peoples: Urgent Appeals Email List

Send us your name, postal and/or e-mail address and you will receive our Urgent Appeals (UAs) free of charge. Become committed, together with your friends and family, to supporting human rights victims by responding to Urgent Appeals and writing letters to the concerned authorities.

http://www.acpp.org/pages/contact.htm

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Asian Human Rights Commission

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) was founded in 1986 by a prominent group of jurists and human rights activists in Asia. The AHRC is an independent, non-governmental body, which seeks to promote greater awareness and realisation of human rights in the Asian region, and to mobilise Asian and international public opinion to obtain relief and redress for the victims of human rights violations. AHRC promotes civil and political rights, as well as economic, social and cultural rights.

http://www.ahrchk.net

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Asian Human Rights Commission - Urgent Appeals

AHRC has an Urgent Appeals desk that operates around the clock. AHRC issues Urgent Appeals on behalf of persons or groups whose human rights have been violated, and for whom some immediate intervention by people around the world may lead to a remedy or official reaction. This appeals network is connected to other networks, and it has tens of thousands of contacts throughout Asia and other countries.

http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/

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Benchmarks, Consultations and Transparency Making the EU Central Asia Strategy an Effective Tool for Human Rights Improvements

This 15-page briefing paper proposes specific human rights benchmarks for each Central Asian country, and urges the EU to clearly link progress on the goals with possible future benefits. It also outlines the human rights situation in these countries [PDF]

http://hrw.org/backgrounder/2008/ca0408/ca0408web.pdf

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Burma- Global Policy Forum

Pages on the Global Policy Forum website about the situation in Burma, includes a short history and analysis.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/myanmaridx.htm

(Added: Mon Nov 26 2007   Hits: 48)

Burma: A Growing History of Violence

At 35, Naw Win Schwe has already lost more than she cares to think about. During a government military offensive near Mon township in March 2006, Naw Win's husband Maung Thanlwin was arrested and killed by Burma's ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). Since then she has also lost her home, land and almost everything she and her husband had once owned. Eventually she was forced to flee for her own life as well, which is how she ended up in the Ei Tu Ta refugee camp on the eastern edge of Burma's Karen state. (Toward Freedom, Written by Will Baxter Tuesday, 16 January 2007)

http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/961/1/

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China Olympics Watch

Human Rights Watch Campaign. Human Rights Watch hopes that the 2008 Olympics will be an impetus for China to demonstrate greater respect for the human rights guaranteed to all under international law. This site provides information about three key issues: censorship of the media and the Internet; the forced eviction of people from their homes to make way for Olympics-related construction; and the rights of workers to organize independent trade unions. These pages include tools you can use to track and understand these key human rights areas as we lead up to 2008: Chinese laws and regulations in English, reports that provide in-depth background and analysis, translations of Internet debates among Chinese citizens on key human rights issues, and some highlighted individual "Gold Medal Rights Defenders"-Chinese citizens imprisoned because they exercised and defended their basic human rights. A fourth page provides tools for activists that will help you to use the Internet to promote human rights in China.

http://hrw.org/campaigns/china/beijing08

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China's silence boosts tyrants

As President Hu Jintao of China visits the White House, this author recommends that huma rights comes up in the conversation - not just as regards to China's repression at home, but China's troubling indifference to human rights abroad. As Hu puts it, China operates "without any political strings." Inspired by how it would like to be treated by others, Beijing adheres to a policy of "noninterference in internal affairs," trading, investing and providing aid without regard to whether its partner is a democratic visionary or a tyrant. Yet, as this article shows, the effect - in Darfur, Angola, Zimbabwe, Uzbekistan, Cambodia, and Myanmar - is anything but neutral. (Kenneth Roth, International Herald Tribune, 19 April 2006)

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/19/opinion/edroth.php

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China: Beijing's migrant construction workers abused

Migrant construction workers building the "new Beijing" are routinely exploited by being denied proper wages, under dangerous conditions with neither accident insurance nor access to medical and other social services, Human Rights Watch said in a report entitled "One Year of My Blood,". (HRW, 13/3/08)

http://hrw.org/reports/2008/china0308/

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China: Tiananmen 17 years on - the victims deserve justice

Seventeen years after the killings of unarmed civilians and demonstrators in Beijing and elsewhere in China in June 1989, the Chinese government continues to deny justice by refusing to conduct an investigation, give a detailed account of the events, identify the people who were killed or injured, and grant compensation to the victims and families. The government also continues to refuse to release the people still detained after all these years, despite the summary and unfair nature of their trials and the excessive length of their detention ... Take Action!

http://www.amnesty.ca/take_action/actions/china_tiananmen_2006.php

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Concentrations of Inhumanity

This report was prepared as part of Freedom House's global campaign to draw attention to the ongoing crisis in North Korea. Freedom House will use this report to encourage the recognition and condemnation - in resolutions at the UN Human Rights Council, UN General Assembly, and possibly the Security Council - of North Korea's gross violations of internationally recognized human rights as crimes under international law (Freedom House, David Hawke, May 2007).

http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/special_report/53.pdf

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