AJAR President Patrick Burgess delivered a series of training on transitional justice and its relevance to the Sri Lanka context between 29 January and 6 February 2016. The training, organized by AJAR’s partner, the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, were between one and three days duration and took place in Colombo and the former […]
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AJAR President Patrick Burgess delivered a series of trainings on transitional justice and its relevance to the Sri Lanka context between 29 January and 6 February 2016. The trainings, organized by AJAR’s partner, the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, were between one and three days duration and took place in Colombo and the former […]
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Asia Justice and Rights, Bridges Across Borders South East Asia Community Legal Education Initiative (BABSEACLE) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) conducted Workshop on Thematic Human Rights Topics from Around the Asia Region in complementary with 5th Pro Bono Conference in Sanur, 29 August 2016. Over 70 participants, including lawyers, and NGO representatives participated […]
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On June 10 2015, survivors and community members of Marabia marked 35 years since the violence, mass arrests and disappearances that took place in their community, a village in the outskirts of Dili. Timor-Leste’s truth commission (CAVR) found that in response to a surprise attack by the resistance army (Falintil) on military targets around Dili, […]
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On 15 August 2015, the people of Aceh will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2005 Helsinki Peace Agreement which was signed by the Indonesian government and the armed pro-independence movement, the Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, GAM) to end the 29 year conflict in Indonesia’s most westerly province. The Aceh conflict had a […]
AJAR organized a joint event to mark International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on 26th June 2015 in Yangon, Myanmar. Our partners Wimutti Volunteer Group (WVG) and a torture survivor spoke out about the plight of torture survivors and their demand for recognition and justice. The event also featured an exhibition of drawings […]
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PRESS RELEASE On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, 26 June 2015 Accountability for Acts of Torture is the Key to Preventing Repetition Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR) is working with KontraS (Indonesia), the National Peace Council (Sri Lanka), Associacaon Chega Ba Ita (Timor-Leste), and Wimutti Volunteer Group (Myanmar) to strengthen the […]
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In June 2015 AJAR hosted a group of senior Pakistani government officials and civil society representatives on a week-long learning exchange to Indonesia. At the end of the exchange, participants expressed their appreciation for the opportunity to witness how Indonesia addresses a broad range of key issues, including the pluralist and tolerant form of Islam […]
In May 2015, AJAR reunited fourteen of an estimated 4,000 ‘stolen children’ with their families, after up to 35 years apart. These children were taken from East Timor to Indonesia by Indonesian military forces during the military occupation, when most were five to ten years old. The survivors were gathered from many areas of Indonesia, […]