AJAR is proud to present its Annual Report, which explores the journeys, achievements, and lessons that shaped AJAR’s work in 2025, and the communities whose resilience continues to inspire hope and action.
Annual Report 2025
AJAR proudly joined the ceremony honoring Patrick Burgess and Galuh Wandita with the Medal of the Order of Timor-Leste, in recognition of their long-standing contributions to the people of Timor-Leste through periods of conflict, transition, truth-seeking, justice, and rebuilding.
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From February to March 2026, Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR), Spirit in Education Movement (SEM), and Amnesty International Thailand jointly organised a public exhibition and a series of dialogues that combined art, performance, and community healing practices to sustain regional attention on Myanmar’s ongoing crisis beyond electoral narratives promoted by the military regime.
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Through a grounded approach, the Bukae program documents what happened when reparations were designed with survivors, rather than for survivors. The paper shares practical lessons from working alongside survivors and children born of war across Timor-Leste.
Read moreAsia Justice and Rights believes that peace and democracy can only be sustained if impunity, corruption, denial of the truth about past violations are addressed. We aim to equip both local and national actors with the necessary skills, knowledge and resources for their long-term efforts to strengthen accountability.
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, 30 August 2026 “There’s a feeling of uncertainty about a lost family member. For me, I need to know for sure whether I’m a widow or still married. I don’t know.” -women…
Dili, Timor-Leste / Jakarta, Indonesia /Sydney, Australia (19 May 2026) – Today in Dili, Patrick Burgess and Galuh Wandita received…
Application deadline: 20 January, 2026 Download the applicant booklet here. Background The ongoing political and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar has…
From 3-7 August 2026, young people from Aceh, Papua, Timor-Leste, and Indonesia gathered at the AJAR Learning Center in Bali…
Asia Justice and Rights is strongly committed to linking countries transitioning from various situations where human rights violations have occurred — focusing our work in places attempting to build a stable democratic base following prolonged conflict or authoritarian rule. We are committed to linking countries transitioning from various situations such as war, dictatorship or where human rights violations have occurred.
Asia Justice and Rights produce publications drawing on years of experience working on conflict and peace-building. Alongside our partners, we have worked to document human rights violations, worked with transitional justice organisations and victims/survivors in order to know how to deal with the challenges of justice and rights.
For more than two decades after Timor-Leste’s independence,…
In 2025, Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR), in…
This research report examines the role of civil…
How do communities move from surviving to healing…
Since April 2023, Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR),…
The full Findings Report of the Aceh Truth…
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