Thailand sex workers are the forgotten victims of the Covid-19 pandemic. Since March this year, the government has forcefully shut the nightlight entertainment venues down to prevent the spread of the virus – leaving the estimated 200,000 – 300,000 sex workers without earnings. Because selling sex services are illegal in Read more…
The Covid-19 pandemic poses a significant challenge for the education system in Cambodia, a country where internet penetration stood at only 58 percent as of January this year. The effectiveness of distance learning as the common teaching practice amid pandemic is undone by the inequality of internet access between urban Read more…
Vietnamese have found spaces for free expression tightened even further by the enactment of a draconian cybersecurity law at the start of this year. The law has given Vietnam government additional authority to surveil its own citizens, to censor contents on the internet, and to suspend online newspapers. Social media, Read more…
The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated the culture of hate against ethnic minorities and migrants in Malaysia. After years of having to endure the Malay supremacist that systematically excludes them from political and economic activities in varying degrees, minorities and migrants in Malaysia have now been blamed for the coronavirus outbreak. Read more…
Ahead of the general election in November, the human rights situations in Myanmar are worsening. The government has continued to impose mobile internet blackouts in such turbulent states as Chin and Rakhine to silence dissent, leaving more than a million people without online network connections. Meanwhile, the democratically elected government Read more…
Internet freedom in Indonesia has been experiencing a downward trend for three years, as indicated by the country’s scores on the latest Freedom House’s report. Repeated restrictions on internet connectivity during protests and targeted attacks on activists as well as journalists have been cited as the reasons for this declining Read more…
Date: September 15th, 2020 Youth Representative: Ruthra, Malaysia Yanin, Thailand Me Me, Myanmar Fifty, Indonesia Resource Persons: H.E. Yuyun Wahyuningrum, Representative of Indonesia to ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) ; Fatimah Zahrah, Lead Coordinator of ASEAN Youth Forum; Cornelius Hanung, East Asia and ASEAN Programme Officer of FORUM-ASIA. Read more…
Update! June 29-30, 2021: ASEAN Youth Forum attended and push several points (health related and around migrant workers) of the statement to AICHR Forum on The Right to Health and The Rights of Migrant Workers. April 8, 2021: ASEAN Youth Forum included recommendations from the Youth Collective Statement into the Read more…