Asia-Pacific Consultation. List of Participants

  • ADHOC – Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association. Cambodia. ADHOC is tasked to address the absence of basic rights, freedoms and liberties in Cambodia by providing people with knowledge and understanding of human rights, law and democracy and of how to defend these rights and freedoms themselves
 
  • AIPP – Asia Indigenous People’s Pact. Thailand. AIPP is committed to the cause of promoting and defending indigenous peoples' rights and human rights and articulating issues of relevance to indigenous peoples. At present, AIPP has 47 members from 14 countries in Asia with 14 National Formations, 15 Sub-national Formations and 18 Local Formations. Of this number, 6 are Indigenous Women's Organizations and 4 are Indigenous Youth Organizations.
 
  • APWLD - Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Land and Development. APWLD is Asia Pacific’s leading feminist, membership driven network with 180 members represent organizations and groups of diverse women from 25 countries in the region. APWLD works on capacity development, research, advocacy and activism to claim and strengthen women’s human rights. Along with its membership, APWLD promotes women’s human rights enshrined in international human rights instruments, and to empower women and their movements in Asia to claim equality, justice, peace and sustainable and inclusive development.
 
  • ASK – Ain or Salish Kendra. Bangladesh. ASK, a national legal aid and human rights organisation, provides legal and social support to the dis empowered, particularly women, working children and workers. Its goal is to create a society based on equality, social and gender justice and rule of law. It seeks to create an environment for accountability and transparency of governance institutions.
 
  • CHRD – Center for Human Rights and Development. Mongolia. CHRD works on projects aimed at achieving goals such as improving national human rights mechanisms and structures, increasing foreign aid effectivess, and improving civil society’s contribution to Mongolia’s development and ability to use international HR mechanisms and instruments.
 
  • Citizens News Network / National Alliance of People's Movements. India. Citizen News Service (CNS) believes that experiential and lived knowledge of key affected populations should be central to driving responses to specific health and development issues. Recognizing community competence as an expertise along with those of other constituencies (such as doctors, scientists, policy makers, among others) is one of the key principles of health and science journalism at CNS.
 
  • Community Resource Centre. Thailand. The Community Resources Centre (CRC) is a non-government organisation which is committed to protect and promote the Human Rights, Community Right and the Environment. CRC is a watchdog on the implementation of ICCPR and ICESC
 
  • CLEC – Community Legal Education Center. Cambodia. CLEC builds legal capacity and provides legal aid and other appropriate supports to empower Cambodian citizens, communities and their members vulnerable to and victims of rights violation to demand respect of human rights and justice, and to promote good governance, democracy, equitable development, peace and social harmony.
 
  • CTUHR – Center for Trade Union and Human Rights. Philippines. The Center for Trade and Human Rights (CTUHR) was conceived by a group of religious people, labour rights advocates and trade unionists in 1984. CTUHR’s purpose is to confront state and capitalist’s human rights violations not with an equally evil force but with an awareness that strength and emancipation lies in the hands of the workers’ themselves and in solidarity with the poor and the oppressed.
 
  • ERI –Earth Rights International. Thailand. ERI is a nonprofit organization that combines the power of law and the power of people in defense of human rights and the environment, which we define as "earth rights." ERI specializes in fact-finding, legal actions against perpetrators of earth rights abuses, training grassroots and community leaders, and advocacy campaigns. Through these strategies, EarthRights International seeks to end earth rights abuses, to provide real solutions for real people, and to promote and protect human rights and the environment in the communities where we work.
 
  • FORUM ASIA – Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development. Regional. FORUM-ASIA is a membership-based organisation, with 47 member organisations in 16 countries across South Asia, Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia. Forum Asia’s mission is to promote and protect all human rights, including the right to development, through collaboration and cooperation among human rights organisations and defenders in Asia. Its objective is to strengthen the promotion and protection of human rights and democracy in Asia and beyond by consolidating Asian human rights movements through effective collaboration with members and partners on international solidarity action as well as engagement with states and other stakeholders at national, regional and international levels.
 
  • IBON International. International. IBON International is a service institution with an international character and scope of work. IBON advocates for social justice and social transformation through knowledge building, knowledge sharing, and by performing a broad range of related capacity development functions. IBON cooperates mainly with social movements and civil society constituencies in all regions of the world, especially in the global South and among marginalised groups.
 
  • Indonesia for Global Justice. Indonesia. IGJ carries out its campaign activities to increase critical awareness about global trade liberalization issues, particularly those relate to the ongoing negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), as well as their impacts toward the Indonesian economy and development. The campaign activities are conducted together with various civil society groups that share common values and ideals. IGJ has been developing networks both at national and international levels with concerned groups. Since 2009, IGJ has been using the arena of Constitutional Court to address questionable trade and investment-related laws.
 
  • International Rivers. International. International Rivers works with an international network of dam-affected people, grassroots organizations, environmentalists, human rights advocates and others who are committed to stopping destructive river projects and promoting better options. Based in four continents, its staff has expertise in big dams, energy and water policy, climate change, and international financial institutions. International Rivers support partner organizations and dam-affected people by providing advice, training and technical assistance, and advocating on their behalf with governments, banks, companies and international agencies. Their work focus is in Latin America, Asia and Africa.
 
  • Justine Nolan. Australia. Justine Nolan is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of NSW and the Deputy Director of the Australian Human Rights Centre. Justine's research focuses on the intersection of business and human rights, in particular, accountability for corporate violations of human rights. She is the author of a number of articles on this topic. She is a co-author of an international human rights book (The International Law of Human Rights, OUP, 2011). She teaches international human rights law and related courses on development, globalisation and business and human rights. 
 
  • Karapatan –Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights. Philippines. Karapatan is an alliance of individuals, groups and organizations working for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Philippines. Its founders and members have been at the forefront of the human rights struggle in the Philippines since the time of Marcos’ martial law regime.
 
  • LNWDA –Leitana Nehan Women’s Development Agency. Papua New Guinea. LNWDA has been in existence for 20 years. It was founded in 1992, at the height of the Bougainville Crisis, to provide humanitarian aid, rehabilitation and radio awareness programme on peace building in communities to women and children who were innocent victims of the conflict between Security Forces and the Bougainville Revolutionary Army.
 
  • NAFSO –National Fisheries Solidarity Movement. Sri Lanka. NAFSO (National Fisheries Solidarity Movement), which organizes fishermen to lobby the government to defend their rights and to bring about good environmental practice in coastal areas. NAFSO vision is of a just and prosperous society, where resources are distributed equally, and peace, justice and human rights prevails for all people regardless of race, religion or gender.
 
  • PAHRA/ Alyansa Tigil Mina. Philippines. The Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) is a coalition of organizations and groups who have decided to collectively challenge the aggressive promotion of large-scale mining in the Philippines. Composed of Non-Government Organizations, People’s Organizations, Church groups and academic institutions, the ATM is both an advocacy group and a people’s movement, working in solidarity to protect Filipino communities and natural resources that are threatened by large-scale mining operations.
 
  • PAN-AP –Pesticide Action Network Asia & the Pacific. International. PANAP is one of five regional centres of Pesticide Action Network, a global network dedicated to the elimination of harm upon humans and the environment by pesticide use. Alongside this, the centres focus on promoting sustainable biodiversity-based ecological agriculture (BEA). PANAP has developed strong partnerships with peasants, agricultural workers, indigenous peoples, fisher folk and other small food producers, and rural women's movements throughout the Asia-Pacific region. 
 
  • POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS). India. The Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) strives to defend the human rights, lands livelihoods and protection of the environment of the communities affected by the POSCO project in Odisha, India by engaging in a sustained, grassroots resistance to the acquisition of their lands and forced evictions for the POSCO project.
 
  • Prashant Singh Community Resource Centre. Thailand. The Community Resources Centre (CRC) is a non-government organisation which is committed to protect and promote the Human Rights, Community Right and the Environment. CRC is a watchdog on the implementation of ICCPR and ICESCR.
 
  • SENTRO. Philippines. SENTRO is the national labor center Sentro ng mga Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa. 
 
  • Shwe Gas Movement. Burma. Shwe Gas Movement is raising awareness about the social, economic and environmental impacts of the Shwe Gas Project in and outside of Burma through first hand research and community organization. The Shwe Gas Project involves the exploitation of underwater natural gas deposits off the coast of western Burma’s Arakan State and dual oil and gas pipelines running through Arakan State, Shan State, and Central Burma. 
 
  • SMAA Social Movement for an Alternative Asia. The Social Movements for an Alternative Asia is a coordination of social movements in Asia. Convened by a multi-sectoral set of social movements and organizations, representing women, peasants, migrants, workers, water warriors, anti-debt movements and environmental and climate justice movements, this coordination has three goals: to be in solidarity, to support and strengthen, each other’s struggles, whether local, national or regional; to develop new common struggles for key issues or targets that will allow us to challenge the dominant system and to build Another Asia for the people and Mother Earth; to build a common vision and concrete proposals for Another Asia that reflect the priorities and aspirations of social movements in Asia.
 
  • Solidaritus Perempuan –Women’s Solidarity for Human Rights. Indonesia. Solidaritus Perempuan is a feminist organizations committed to creating a just order in which women and men equally have access to and control over resources, political, economic, social and cultural.
 
  • Tanggol-Kalikasan –Defense of Nature. Philippines. Tanggol-Kalikasan is a non-profit and non-governmental organization involved in public interest environmental lawyering in the Philippines. Its mission is to facilitate the empowerment of communities and institutions to manage their ecosystem through law and other creative mechanisms.
 
  • Tebtebba, Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education. Philippines. Tebtebba is an indigenous peoples’ institution born out of the need for heightened advocacy to have the inherent human rights of indigenous peoples respected, protected and fulfilled. Established in 1996, Tebtebba seeks to raise the awareness of governments and the dominant society on indigenous peoples’ situations, worldviews, rights, and perspectives on development, well-being and sustainability. In this effort, it strives to enhance indigenous peoples’ capacities to take the lead in awareness-raising, policy advocacy, education and training, research and communication, on all issues affecting them. 
 

  • Women’s League of Burma (WLB) was established on December 9, 1999 with the aim of increasing the participation of women in the struggle for democracy and human rights, promoting women’s participation in the national peace and reconciliation process, and enhancing the role of the women of Burma at the national and international level.

 
 
  • World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP). International. WFFP is a mass-based social movement of small-scale fisher people from across the world, founded on 21 November 1997 in New Delhi by a number of mass-based organisations from the Global South. WFFP was established in response to the increasing pressure being placed on small-scale fisheries, including habitat destruction, anthropogenic pollution, encroachment on small-scale fishing territories by the large scale fishing fleets, illegal fishing and overfishing. Years later climate change was added to the list of threats that WFFP addresses in its work.