In the period between November 2019 and February 2020, a total of 100 indigenous women in five locations — Boven Digoel and Unurum Guay Districts, Jayapura District in Papua Province; Kebar, Tambrauw Regency; Tomage, Fakfak Regency; and Sorong District in West Papua Province — were involved in participatory action research (PAR) facilitated by Asia Justice […]
Read More… from Pocketbook “Indigenous Women Protecting the Forest”
In the period between November 2019 and February 2020, a total of 100 indigenous women in five locations — Boven Digoel and Unurum Guay Districts, Jayapura District in Papua Province; Kebar, Tambrauw Regency; Tomage, Fakfak Regency; and Sorong District in West Papua Province — were involved in participatory action research (PAR) facilitated by Asia Justice […]
“I still have my nature [traditional land], but the police always come to hunt. We put up a signpost to forbid them, but the police threw the sign away. In the afternoons there still used to be deer. But now there are none, all the birds are gone.” — KS, Kebar Valley, February 2020 […]
Read More… from All the Birds are Gone: Indigenous Women Speak Out Against Forest Loss in Papua
Human rights defenders in Asia face many challenges. How should societies in the Asia region respond to extrajudicial killings, military dictatorships, violent extremism, among many other mass atrocities—and the lack of accountability over these violations? To guide responses in the many contexts of mass violations, a group of civil society and transitional justice practitioners are […]
Read More… from Transitional Justice in Asia Video Series – #1 – Overview
On 14 April 2018, the Papuan Women’s Working Group (PWG) submitted a paper to Hilal Elver, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, who visited Indonesia on 9-18 April 2018. The visit aimed to collect information on government policies that are affecting people’s lives, especially their right to food. One PWG member had […]
Women survivors of violence face challenges in their attempts to obtain justice. This has been a key finding in the work of the Women’s League of Burma (WLB) and Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR), as we work on cases of violence against women in Myanmar’s ethnic communities and engage in strengthening and empowering survivors of […]
In 2012, Indonesia’s National Commission on Human Rights concluded that the atrocities of 1965-1966 may amount to crimes against humanity, filing its dossier with the Attorney General for prosecution. However, to date there has been no follow-up on this case. This stalling of judicial process has blocked victims’ access to truth, justice, and reparations. To […]
Between 2013 and 2016 AJAR and its civil society partners collaborated with the national human rights institutions of Indonesia and Timor-Leste to trace the stolen children taken from Timor-Leste and brought to Indonesia during the con ict of 1975-1999. To date, we have documented the stories of 65 stolen children, 30 of whom have participated […]
Read More… from Long Journey Home: The Stolen Children of Timor-Leste
In partnership with Legal Clinic Myanmar, AJAR published “Convention against Torture & other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT)”. Download the CAT Paper in Burmese (PDF Version) […]