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Asia Human Rights News - 200106 JUN 2001
 
AUSTRALIA: Guards in Immigration Detention Centres Get Strip-Search Powers
Posted on: 2001-06-30

SRI LANKA : Attorney General presents Bindunuwewa massacre report
Posted on: 2001-06-29

KOREA: China could send N. Koreans to third country
Posted on: 2001-06-29

KOREA: North Korea and Australia establish reciprocal embassy agreement
Posted on: 2001-06-29

CAMBODIA:UN refugee agency negotiates with Vietnam on refugees in Cambodia
Posted on: 2001-06-29

JAPAN: Court rules serial killer Miyazaki sane
Posted on: 2001-06-29

INDONESIA: Wahid Plans to Replace Top Military Brass
Posted on: 2001-06-29

AHRC Media Release: Australia: High Commissioner Appointee responsible for atrocities
Posted on: 2001-06-29

INDONESIA: Army arrest gunmen in Poso
Posted on: 2001-06-28

MALAYSIA: 10,000 anti-ISA postcards sent to UN
Posted on: 2001-06-28

KOREA: North Korean refugee claim continues in Beijing
Posted on: 2001-06-28

KOREA: Beijing faces serious dilemma over North Korean refugees
Posted on: 2001-06-28

CAMBODIA: Cambodian Khmer Rouge commander looks for new lawyer
Posted on: 2001-06-28

JAPAN: No revisions expected after text review concludes in July
Posted on: 2001-06-28

CAMBODIA: Cambodia's labor movement a threat to garment industry
Posted on: 2001-06-28

SRI LANKA : Price of a MP rises to Rs. 40 million
Posted on: 2001-06-27

KOREA: 2nd S-N summit assured: Russian media report
Posted on: 2001-06-27

JAPAN: Korean groups to jointly visit A-bomb cenotaph
Posted on: 2001-06-27

KASHMIR: Bomb explosion injures 50
Posted on: 2001-06-26

SRI LANKA : Sri Lanka's torture shame
Posted on: 2001-06-26

SRI LANKA : Three police reservists arrested for raping Tamil woman
Posted on: 2001-06-26

KOREA: Kim calls for inter-Korean peace pact
Posted on: 2001-06-26

KOREA: Rights activist murdered by wardens: presidential panel
Posted on: 2001-06-26

CAMBODIA: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia Agree Cooperation in Border Area
Posted on: 2001-06-26

JAPAN: Osaka bar to send Takuma lawyers
Posted on: 2001-06-26

MALAYSIA: Mahathir's Foes Pay the Price of Dissent
Posted on: 2001-06-26

AUSTRALIA/ INDONESIA: Wahid promises tribunals for East Timor crimes
Posted on: 2001-06-26

AUSTRALIA: More protests in detention centres
Posted on: 2001-06-26

PNG: Three Dead in Anti-Poverty Rioting
Posted on: 2001-06-26

INDONESIA: Fresh violence breaks out in Kalimantan
Posted on: 2001-06-25

SRI LANKA : Torture victim says he can't even sign
Posted on: 2001-06-24

AUSTRALIA: Asylum Seeker Dies Amid Allegations of Medical Neglect
Posted on: 2001-06-24

BURMA/ THAILAND/ INDIA: Refugees Face Hostility & Rejection
Posted on: 2001-06-24

BURMA: Five more opposition members released from detention
Posted on: 2001-06-23

AUSTRALIA: Asylum Seekers Claim They Were Bashed By Guards
Posted on: 2001-06-23

KOREA: North Korea Nixes Nuclear Inspection
Posted on: 2001-06-22

CAMBODIA: Problems seen for Cambodian Khmer Rouge trial
Posted on: 2001-06-22

JAPAN: Child-abuse inquiries up by 60%; reached record of 18,804 last year
Posted on: 2001-06-22

JAPAN: Lawmaker blasts Mori role in AIDS forum
Posted on: 2001-06-22

MALAYSIA: ISA Detainee's Wife Hands Memo to PM.
Posted on: 2001-06-22

MALAYSIA: West Wants To See Our Destruction: Mahathir
Posted on: 2001-06-22

AUSTRALIA: MPs continue to brawl over detention of asylum seekers; UNHCR & AI weigh in
Posted on: 2001-06-20

KOREA: Seoul to Continue Fight Against Distorted-History Japanese Textbooks
Posted on: 2001-06-20

KOREA: Lawyers to launch nation's first legal aid group for foreign asylum seekers
Posted on: 2001-06-20

CAMBODIA: Genocide Trial Legislation Ready This Week
Posted on: 2001-06-20

JAPAN: Antinuclear runners begin relay
Posted on: 2001-06-20

AUSTRALIA/ SRI LANKA: New Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia a "War Criminal"
Posted on: 2001-06-19

AUSTRALIA: Immigration Minister Attacks Parliamentary Report Calling for Changes to Treatment of Asylum Seekers
Posted on: 2001-06-19

AUSTRALIA: Parliamentary Committee: Detention Centre Policy "Ruthless", "Shocking"
Posted on: 2001-06-19

AUSTRALIA/ SRI LANKA: Tamil Protest and Investigation of New Sri Lankan High Commissioner
Posted on: 2001-06-19

KOREA: N.K. puts energy delay on top of agenda for U.S. talks
Posted on: 2001-06-19

CAMBODIA: Re-emerging Cambodia now faces AIDS threat
Posted on: 2001-06-19

JAPAN: Ministry group urges equal access to work for women
Posted on: 2001-06-19

SRI LANKA :Six hundred Aids stricken infants in Sri Lanka
Posted on: 2001-06-19

KOREA: Activists burn US flag, clash with police
Posted on: 2001-06-18

KOREA: Perry urges Bush to meet with North Korean leader
Posted on: 2001-06-18

CAMBODIA: Cambodians Lose Faith in U.N.
Posted on: 2001-06-18

CAMBODIA: Life in Cambodian village transformed by Internet
Posted on: 2001-06-18

JAPAN: Japan drafts U.N. peacekeeping bill
Posted on: 2001-06-18

JAPAN: EU urges Japan to commit to Kyoto pact
Posted on: 2001-06-18

BURMA: Military Eases Pressure, Allows Opposition to Reopen Some Offices
Posted on: 2001-06-18

BURMA: 70 Mosques and Madarasas Ordered Destroyed in Arakan State
Posted on: 2001-06-16

BURMA/CHILD SOLDIERS: Burma estimated to have largest number of child soldiers in world
Posted on: 2001-06-15

KOREA: South still waiting for Seoul summit
Posted on: 2001-06-15

CAMBODIA: Survivor recounts the ordeal of Khmer Rouge reign and slaughter
Posted on: 2001-06-15

EAST TIMOR: News Summaries from Different Sources, reported by UN Wire
Posted on: 2001-06-15

JAPAN: Two get death penalty for murders, robbery
Posted on: 2001-06-15

AUSTRALIA: Independent MP Calls for HR Commission Inquiry into Detention Centres
Posted on: 2001-06-15

AUSTRALIA: Independent MP Claims Child in Detention Centre Attacked by Guards
Posted on: 2001-06-15

BURMA: Human rights groups renew criticism over forced labor
Posted on: 2001-06-14

MALAYSIA: Exclusie Interview wih Releasd ISA Detainee : "They Only Asked Me About Sex"
Posted on: 2001-06-14

EAST TIMOR: NTT Can Only Accept 6000 Timorese Families
Posted on: 2001-06-14

KOREA: Reunions left painful memories, millions hoping to see kin
Posted on: 2001-06-14

KOREA: Reconciliation Between Koreas Stalls
Posted on: 2001-06-14

CAMBODIA: Cambodia seeks aid to cut army
Posted on: 2001-06-14

JAPAN: Cambodia to get 0 million
Posted on: 2001-06-14

AFGHANISTAN: Taliban Detains 60 Civilians
Posted on: 2001-06-14

INDONESIA: Defence Minister Accuses TNI, Police
Posted on: 2001-06-14

SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka mob attack probe hears evidence
Posted on: 2001-06-14

INDIA,SRI LANKA:Sri Lankan Tamil refugees battle for survival in southern India
Posted on: 2001-06-14

SRI LANKA: Fr. Aba murder probe leads to another killing
Posted on: 2001-06-14

KOREA: Airline and Industrial Strikes Hit South Korea
Posted on: 2001-06-13

KOREA: Kim DJ urges gov't to get tough on striking
Posted on: 2001-06-13

CAMBODIA: Cambodian donor conference begins
Posted on: 2001-06-13

JAPAN: Major legal reform handed to Koizumi - Overhaul would be first made under postwar Constitution
Posted on: 2001-06-13

INDONESIA: Suharto Sick but Stable
Posted on: 2001-06-13

INDONESIA: Rise and Fall of Strongmand Suharto
Posted on: 2001-06-13

INDOENSIA: 6 Killed in West Papua over Security Contract
Posted on: 2001-06-13

INDONESIA: Massive Protests against Labour Laws
Posted on: 2001-06-13

INDONESIA: Nearly 60 Killed in One Week in Aceh
Posted on: 2001-06-13

BURMA: Burma Still Using Forced Labor
Posted on: 2001-06-12

KOREA: Mass strike threatens South Korea
Posted on: 2001-06-12

KOREA: New challenges on the horizon for both Koreas after historic summit
Posted on: 2001-06-12

CAMBODIA: Suspects in Cambodian Plot on Trial
Posted on: 2001-06-12

CAMBODIA: Lawyers boycott trial of 32 alleged coup plotters
Posted on: 2001-06-12

CAMBODIA: Commune Election
Posted on: 2001-06-11

CAMBODIA: Commune secretaries: assistants or spies?
Posted on: 2001-06-11

KOREA: Korean workers gear up for strike
Posted on: 2001-06-11

KOREA: Russian envoy says Moscow ready to play a part in North-South ties
Posted on: 2001-06-11

JAPAN: Funerals for Japan school victims
Posted on: 2001-06-11

KOREA: U.S. opens door to talks on N. Korean missiles
Posted on: 2001-06-08

KOREA: GNP demands President apologize for N.K. incursions
Posted on: 2001-06-08

CAMBODIA: Cambodia's Hun Sen arrives in Japan
Posted on: 2001-06-08

CAMBODIA: Holland offers help in polls
Posted on: 2001-06-08

JAPAN: Japan tipped to pledge millions to AIDS fund
Posted on: 2001-06-08

AUSTRALIA: Judge says treatment of child asylum seekers is in violation of UN Convention on Rights of the Child
Posted on: 2001-06-08

KOREA: Han asks U.N. leader to visit both Koreas
Posted on: 2001-06-07

KOREA: Kim reiterates call for N.K. leader's return visit to Seoul
Posted on: 2001-06-07

CAMBODIA: Cambodian genocide investigators call for Thai held documents
Posted on: 2001-06-07

JAPAN: Japan History Textbook Sells Briskly
Posted on: 2001-06-07

ISLAM: Values, Not Rituals are Essence of Religion
Posted on: 2001-06-07

SRI LANKA : Attorney General stalls on bail application for Tamil detainees
Posted on: 2001-06-07

AUSTRALIA: Catholic Church Condemns Australia's Human Rights Record
Posted on: 2001-06-07

Organised Crime and Human Trafficking
Posted on: 2001-06-06

AUSTRALIA: Protesters Rally Against Refugee Detention; More Violence in Centres
Posted on: 2001-06-05

KOREA: Korean workers clash with police over Daewoo
Posted on: 2001-06-04

KOREA: Union groups to take sex slavery issue to ILO
Posted on: 2001-06-04

CAMBODIA: Cambodian capital launches public transport
Posted on: 2001-06-04

CAMBODIA: Cambodian call to end child exploitation
Posted on: 2001-06-04

JAPAN: Koizumi urged to rethink shrine visit
Posted on: 2001-06-04

JAPAN: APEC to discuss 'charter' for more liberalization efforts
Posted on: 2001-06-04

BANGLADESH :Bomb blast at church in Gopalganj 10 killed, 25 injured
Posted on: 2001-06-04

PAKISTAN : Individuals in Pak Army can't avoid responsibility
Posted on: 2001-06-04

BURMA: Currency Traders Charged Under Security Act
Posted on: 2001-06-03

THAILAND/ BURMA: Urgent Appeal for 48 Refugees in Thailand
Posted on: 2001-06-03

BURMA: Imprisoned Writers to Receive 'Golden Pen' Award
Posted on: 2001-06-03

AUSTRALIA: Amnesty International Attacks Human Rights Record
Posted on: 2001-06-03

AUSTRALIA: Detention Has Left Refugee Family Traumatised
Posted on: 2001-06-03

INDIA: Dalit Muslims join reservation issue, demand share
Posted on: 2001-06-01


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