AFAD 25 Years Video Teaser

This AFAD video teaser is an opening salvo of the yearlong campaign and fight Against Enforced Disappearances and for the Protection, not Persecution, of Human Rights Defenders, across Asia.

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Manila,  11  November  2016  –  The  Asian  Federation  Against  Involuntary  Disappearances  (AFAD) wishes  to  express  its  deepest  gratitude  to  the  Taiwan  Foundation  for  Democracy  (TFD)  for selecting it the 2016 Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award (ADHRA).

Joint Press Release
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (The Observatory)
The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD)
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
Human Rights Defenders Alert - India (HRDA)
FORUM-ASIA
The International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED)
Odhikar
 
Bangkok-Dhaka-Geneva-Madurai-Paris-Quezon City, 26 October 2016 – The High Court in Jammu and Kashmir has again prolonged the arbitrary detention of Kashmiri human rights defender Mr. Khurram Parvez, who has already spent 40 days in jail. Our organisations call on the Indian authorities to release him immediately.
 

Today is the 30th day of the continuing arbitrary, unjust and illegal detention of AFAD’s Chairperson, Khurram Parvez. AFAD and its member- organizations are deeply disappointed and outraged by this continuing violation of the rights of Mr. Parvez.

Odhikar:22 years of defending human rights – despite persecution
 
Statement from Odhikar


Dhaka, October 10, 2016 – Odhikar was established on the 10th of October 1994 with thevision of a society based on the rights and responsibilities of State and citizen. Having rights and being able to freely enjoy them, as inscribed and protected by a democratic constitution, is an obvious expectation, but the people of Bangladesh have been deprived from such protection for too long. Odhikar’s strategic campaign has, therefore, always been to reclaim the social, cultural, religious and political unity that was expressed in three principles of the Bangladesh Liberation War; and inscribed in the ‘Proclamation of Independence’: equality, human dignity and social justice.

The Federation

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