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Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC)
Year Established: 1976
Short Historical Background
As international companies increased their investment in Asia, it became clear that the poor working conditions they brought required an informed response from labor and its supporters. Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC) was part of that response and was founded in Hong Kong in 1976.
AMRC has developed over the years, but is still an independent non-governmental organization (NGO) which focuses on Asian labor concerns. The Centre supports a democratic and independent labor movement promoting the principles of labor rights, gender consciousness, and active workers' participation in work related issues.
AMRC provides information, consultation, publications, documentation, and internships, and conducts research, training, advocacy, campaigns, labor networking, and related services to trade unions, pro-labor groups, related NGOs, academics, researchers, and professionals on labor issues.
To help workers become truly empowered, AMRC upholds the following: providing workers with access to information, tools, and skills to promote men and women working together as equal partners, to strengthen international solidarity among workers through the exchange of experiences and ideas, and to engage in strategies to help organize workers in a rapidly changing society in which the informalization of labor is an increasing problem.
Fundamental principles, standards, and rights at work are essential for organizing workers. In particular, AMRC supports the International Labor Organisation's core labor standards covering the rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining, the elimination of forced labour and child labor, and the abolition of discrimination at work.
The AMRC seeks to become a strategic research, education, and information resource partner of the broad Asian labour movement in the struggle for decent jobs, equality, and dignity for Asian working men and women.
Objective
AMRC aims to support and contribute towards the building of a strong, democratic, and independent labor movement in Asia by understanding and responding to the multiple challenges of asserting workers' rights to jobs, decent working conditions, and gender consciousness, while following a participatory framework.
Programs and Activities
Research
AMRC undertakes research with regional and local labor groups into issues affecting workers in Asia. Current research projects include:
- Comparative labor law in Asian countries
- Lay-offs in China's state owned enterprises
- Informalization of labor
- Occupational Safety and Health Education
- Mobility of capital
- Women workers in Asian Export Processing Zones
- The impact of TNC subcontracting on workers and social development
- Migrant workers in Southern China
- Monitoring workers' conditions and workers' rights in the sports shoe, garment, toy, electronics, and gem and jewellery industries.
Information and Documentation
AMRC monitors and processes information on all aspects of labour in Asia including:
- global and regional trends
- national social, political and labor situations
- data on wages and employment
- trade union profiles
- occupational safety and health
- transnational corporations
- industry-specific data.
Services
AMRC provides services to the following:
- grassroots NGOs concerned with women workers, labor issues, and development
- activists within the labor movement
- labor organizations specializing in areas such as education and training, health and safety, and labor rights
- NGOs in developed countries and international organizations concerned with labor rights and labor standards in Asia
- organizations requesting information on specific countries or industries for the purpose of raising public awareness of labor issues in Asia
- NGOs seeking North-South or South-South collaboration on research projects, monitoring, information exchange, and the analysis and sharing of experiences of organizing.
Internships
AMRC offers both long- and short-term internship programs, ranging from two months to one year for Asian labor organizers and activists in the following fields:
- Documentation and information management
- Research
- Publication
- Project or issue-based programs, i.e., occupational safety and health, toys production, export promotion zones, and Asian transnational corporations, etc.
The programs are intended to be mutual exchanges whereby AMRC benefits from the skills and knowledge of the interns, who gain from the hands-on experience of our unique position as a regional labor NGO. Long-term interns have the opportunity to contribute to AMRC's development by enriching the Centre's projects with their skills and experience.
Web site
The web site reflects the results of AMRC's research of past and ongoing projects. The site advertises our publications that can be bought online or by cheque.
Archive pages offer information about previous Asian Labour Update (ALU) magazines and other publications, reports, and activities, some of which are available as free downloads.
Publications
Asian Labour Update (ALU) is synonymous with AMRC since 1992. It is a quarterly newsletter examining important labor issues and current events in the Asian region from the workers' perspective. It provides information and analysis of issues and stories that are not covered thoroughly by the mainstream media. ALU is primary information sources for grassroots workers' organizations, regional and international labor groups, and development NGOs. ALU is published in hard copy and PDF.
Books and reports are also regularly produced at AMRC, mostly in English. It encourages the translation of its publications into as many languages as possible to make the information as accessible as possible to rank and file workers. These publications reflect the work, studies, and projects that AMRC does and are published in stages or at the end of AMRC's first hand research. They can be ordered online using all major credit cards on its web site at www.amrc.org.hk
Address
Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC)
Flat 7, 9/F, Block A
Fuk Keung Industrial Building
66-68 Tong Mi Road, Kowloon
Hong Kong SAR, CHINA
ph (852) 2332-1346
fax (852) 2385-5319
e-mail: admin[a]amrc.org.hk; apo[a]amrc.org.hk
www.amrc.org.hk
Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
Year Established:1986
Short Historical Background
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is an independent regional non-governmental organization, which seeks to promote greater awareness and realization of human rights in the Asian region, and to mobilize Asian and international public opinion to obtain relief and redress for the victims of human rights violations. It was founded by a prominent group of jurists and human rights activists in Asia and based in Hong Kong since 1986. The AHRC has a sister organization, the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), which was set up together with the AHRC to develop effective legal resources for the poor and the disadvantaged and to promote institutional reforms for the rule of law and the protection of human rights.
The AHRC works in the Asian legal context as a regional support group for local human rights activists and organizations in different countries, primarily engaging in creating better protection mechanisms for victims of human rights abuses and human rights activists and helping with lobbying and monitoring on issues locally and internationally.
Objectives
AHRC aims
- To protect and promote human rights by monitoring, investigation, advocacy, and taking solidarity actions;
- To work towards social equality, with particular emphasis on social groups who have suffered discrimination in the past, such as women and children and minorities, including Dalits;
- To develop a speedy communication system using modern communication techniques to encourage quicker actions to protect human rights, redress wrongs and prevent violations in future;
- To develop appropriate modes of human rights education and especially promote the folk school approach;
- To promote appropriate legal and administrative reforms, particularly judicial and police reforms;
- To develop close links with the victims of human rights violations to promote solidarity with victims, to preserve the memory of the victims and to organize significant commemorations linking large sections of people for the purpose of eliminating human rights violations;
- To participate in peacemaking, reconciliation, conflict resolution, truth commissions and international tribunals;
- To develop cultural and religious programs for the promotion of human rights;
- To encourage ratification of United Nations instruments and development of local legislation, law enforcement and judicial practices in keeping with such instruments, and assist the formation and functioning of national human rights commissions;
- To promote the United Nations, particularly its human rights agencies and assist organizations and persons in Asia to utilize these agencies for better promotion and protection of human rights in Asia;
- To work towards the development of regional human rights mechanisms and encourage people's participation in this process by promoting the Asian Human Rights Charter.
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Programs
- Urgent Appeals Program
- Human Rights Training Programs
- Prevention of Torture
- Human-Rights-Related Legal and Institutional Reforms
- Country-specific Programs
- Right to Food Program
Activities
- Urgent Appeals program – daily case interventions related to illegal arrest, detention, torture, extrajudicial killings, disappearances, freedom of expression, denial of food and water, education and health, and discrimination.
- Campaign for elimination of torture – promoting the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, advocacy for criminalizing torture, handling torture cases, building support networks with local groups, and advocacy to raise public awareness.
- Promoting legislative and institutional reforms - regular reports 30 on the problems of the criminal justice system in Asian countries; advocate for the laws and legal reforms for witness protection, investigation mechanisms on human rights violations, and the policing system, etc.
- Providing an efficient communication and information network - publishing on daily basis news on human rights and documentation as well as analysis and perspectives.
- Human rights education - Human Rights School programme held locally and regionally, internship, and online human rights
lessons.
- Active lobby at the United Nations – engaged in lobby and advocacy at the Human Rights Council and other international agencies on human rights issues.
Special Concerns
- Rule of law and human rights
- Legal reforms
- Policing
- Criminal justice system
- Torture
- Enforced disappearances
- Extra-judicial killings
- Right to food
Publications
Some of AHRC’s recent publications are the following:
- The State of Human Rights in Eleven Asian Nations (2007)
- Sri Lanka's Dysfunctional Criminal Justice System
- Peoples' power calling for reforms in Pakistan
- Sri Lanka: The Delgoda Family Massacre and Confronting Lawlessness
- The State of Human Rights in Eleven Asian Nations (2006)
- Manava Himicam Pahana (The Light of Human Rights)
- The Other Lanka
- Asia: Towards the Elimination of Corruption and Executive Control of the Judiciary ~ Report of the First Consultation on the Asian Charter on the Rule of Law
- Rule of Law and Human Rights in Asia
- The State of Human Rights in Ten Asian Nations (2005)
- A Model for Torture Prevention in Asia
- An X-ray of the Sri Lankan policing system & torture of the poor
- Fact Sheet for the International Criminal Court
- Human Rights SOLIDARITY – periodic newsletter
Complete list of books at: www.ahrchk.net/pub/mainfile.php/books/
Other Information
Special online publications on specific issues:
1. Article 2 (www.article2.org) : published by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) in conjunction with Human Rights SOLIDARITY, a publication of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
2. www.ahrchk.net : gives general information about AHRC programs and publications, selected documents, and analytical articles
3. www.disappearances.org: inaugurated on 10 December 1998 as a Cyberspace Graveyard for Disappeared Persons in solidarity with their families and as a constant reminder of this most dastardly of human rights crimes
4. www.hrschool.org: aims to make all the information and insights gained through regular AHRC programs, as well as those developed through special educational programs under the Human Rights School, accessible to those engaged in or wishing to undertake human rights education.
Address
Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) & Asian Legal Resource Center (ALRC)
Unit 701A, Westley Square
48 Hoi Yuen Road
Kwun Tong, Kowloon
Hong Kong SAR, CHINA
ph (852) - 2698-6339
fax (852) - 2698-6367
e-mail: ahrc[a]ahrc.asia
www.ahrchk.net
Asian Migrant Centre (AMC)
Year Established:1989
Short Historical Background
Asian Migrant Centre (AMC) is a regional, non-governmental, non-profit organization established in Hong Kong in 1989. It was formally registered with the Hong Kong government on 23 December 1991. AMC operates as a monitoring, research, information, publishing, training, support and action center dedicated to the promotion of the human rights and empowerment of migrant workers and their families in Asia towards meaningful social participation as women, workers, agents of change and partners in social development.
Objective
AMC's primary goal is to promote the human rights, dignity and empowerment of migrant workers and their families in Asia, so that they are able to assert and defend their rights and interests, and become partners in sustainable, just and gender-fair social development.
Programs and Activities
Migrants Human Rights (MHR) Program - despite significant gains in international standards on migrants human rights (MHR), there is a tremendous “gap” between such standards and the daily struggles and realities of migrants’ working and living conditions. Combined with numerous other factors, a key obstacle to the overall improvement in the situation of MHR is the fact that many migrant workers and migrant support groups have limited awareness, capability, energy and resources to actively advocate for migrants human rights. The MHR Program works in partnership with advocates in the region to increase the “critical mass” of organizations advocating for MHR, strengthen region-wide mechanisms to document rights violations, and improve the capabilities, skills and conceptual and practical understandings of advocates on using MHR standards.
The MHR program strives to fulfill AMC’s strategic objectives of working with the Asian migration advocacy network, the Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) to promote the use of migrants human rights standards and the practice of monitoring, documenting, reporting and redressing migrants’ rights violations among a broad base of migrant workers’ organizations and their support groups in Asia. AMC works to produce resource materials for training advocates in using MHR standards and documenting and reporting rights violations. These advocates are for the most part members of the MFA network, which is an Asia-wide network of over two hundred migrants organizations and advocates.
Asian Migrant Yearbook & Information Monitoring (AIM) Program - The Asian Migrant Yearbook is AMC’s annual publication, providing a yearly report on migration for over twenty countries in Asia. Country reports include statistics on migration, including inflow and outflow as well as annual stock, along with updates of the political and economic situation of the country, migration trends, and responses taken by various parties in regard to migrants’ issues and needs. In addition, the yearbook provides thematic reports on migration issues such as health, gender and trafficking, among others. There is also a section updating migration resources published in the past years, as well as a list of organizations working on migrants’ issues in Asia.
Mekong Migration (MM) Program – this program aims to cover two areas, namely the intra-Mekong cross-border migration under the Mekong Project; and outgoing migration of Chinese people into Asian countries/territories such as Japan, Korea, Macau, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Mekong Project – the first phase of this project began in September 2001 through a collaboration of AMC and more than twenty regional and national research partners covering the six countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). In the first phase of the project, the partners conducted joint action-oriented research to map migration issues, needs and strategies in the GMS, and published the results in a resource book (Migration Needs, Issues and Responses in the Greater Mekong Subregion: A Resource Book) and annotated bibliography.
Mekong + China Migration (MCM) Program – this program monitors, analyzes and strategizes on migration issues and needs in the Greater Mekong Subregion, and looks into the issues surrounding out-going cross-border migration of Chinese people.
Asian Migrant Yearbook & Information Monitoring (IMY) Program - collects, organizes and manages a wide range of information related to migration in Asia.
Information Monitoring Program – this program is devoted to collecting, organizing and managing a wide range of information related to migration in Asia. AMC maintains a library accessible to migrant workers in Hong Kong, and plans to computerize the library and other sources of information in order to provide access through the Internet. In addition, AMC periodically publishes monographs and reports based on its research, along with statements, conference reports, educational and training materials.
Moreover, AMC collaborate with a number of regional and international networks to promote migrants human rights and continue to campaign for ratification and implementation of various international standards including the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
Publications
• Restricted Rights: Migrant Women Workers in Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia (War on Want, UK, 2012)
• Resource Book: Migration in the Greater Mekong Subregion (2003~2012)
• Annotated Bibliography: Migration in the Greater Mekong Subregion (2003~2011; Online interactive version updated regularly
since 2011)
• From Our Eyes: Mekong Migrant Reflections 2000-2012
• Asian Migrant Yearbook (1997~)
• Baseline Research on Foreign Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong (2001)
• Harnessing “Migrant Savings for Alternative Investments” (MSAI)
• Underpayment For a whole list, please see www.asian-migrants.org
Other Information
Through the joint research in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) a loose network of migrant advocates emerged. In October 2003, the Mekong Migration Network (MMN), which is perhaps the first broad, organic civil society-based action network on comprehensive migration issues in the GMS, was formally established by the project partners from the first phase of the project as well as new partners covering all the six countries. This breakthrough has improved networking among migration advocates in the GMS, and the network strives to work together on four areas: research, advocacy, capacity building and networking. As of October 2004, MMN has over forty-five member-organizations. MMN holds annual MMN workshops and/or General Forum to further develop joint analysis, plans, strategies, and responses to migration in the GMS.
Address
Asian Migrant Centre (AMC)
13/F, Flat 6, Blk. A, Fuk Keung Industrial Building
66-68 Tong Mi Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, CHINA
ph (852) 2312 0031
e-mail: amc[a]asian-migrants.org
www.asian-migrants.org
Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM)
Year Established: 1984
Short Historical Background
APMM is a cause-oriented regional center committed to support the migrants' movement through advocacy, organizing, and building linkages for the advancement of migrants' rights.
The name APMM was realized in March 2002 and originally came from the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrant Filipinos or APMMF which was established in 1984. APMM is working with different nationalities of migrants in the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions.
Objectives
APMM aims to help build a movement of migrants of different nationalities in the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East (APME) that actively defends the rights of migrants, advances solidarity with people's movements in the countries where they are working and links up with the people's movements in their home countries.
Programs
Advocacy and Organizing Program (AOP) - APMM undertakes activities to help develop a strong movement of migrant workers, especially in the countries of Asia Pacific, the Middle East and of the Gulf regions. A comprehensive advocacy program in these areas is undertaken to help in the establishment and strengthening of migrant workers organizations, especially in APMM focus areas. Incorporated in this program are the mission and network building and linkaging.
Education and Research Program (ERP) - APMM seeks to raise migrant workers’ consciousness, encourages the growth of their own organizing, leadership development, social services skills like counseling and para-legal skills. Research serves as an important part in the overall education work.
APMM conducts research on the various dimensions of migration and the migrants' movement. Research serves an important part in the overall education for it provides relevant information to better understand migration.
Women's Program (WP) - APMM gives primary emphasis to this program because almost two-thirds of migrant workers are women and organizing work will have to be sensitized to women's concerns in conjunction with migrant workers' rights.
Activities
- Advocacy and Campaigns for the defense and protection of migrant workers' rights
- Migrant Organizing and Linkaging to strengthen the solidarity movement of migrants
- Women's program to orient and organize women migrants
- Mission and Network building for the enhancement of migrant workers upliftment and well-being
- Education and Research for advocacy, information sharing/networking and resource development.
Research projects
- New Lives, New Roots: Life Stories of Marriage Migrants (2012)
- Relevance, Nexus and Prospects: An Impact Study of the GFMD and Its Migration Paradigm (2012)
- Global Migration: Facts and Figures (2010)
- “For better or for Worse”: Comparative Research on Equity & Access for Marriage Migrants (2010)
- Psychosocial Profile and Perspectives of Foreign Brides (2007)
- Attitude of the Local People to Foreign Brides (2007)
- Truth About Illegal Salary Deductions to Indonesian Migrant Workers in Hongkong (2007).
- “Case Study on the Development of Filipino Migrants Movement in Some Selected Countries in the Asia Pacific & Middle
- East Regions” (2004)
- Historical Development and Policies on Overseas Employment in Indonesia (2003)
- Deteriorating Conditions in the Japanese Economy and Its Impact on Migrant Labor (2003)
- SEGYEHWA (“Globalization”) and Korea: Worsening Crisis in Society, Worsening Conditions for Migrant Workers (2002)
- The Role and Process of Remittances in the Labor Export Industry in the Philippines (2002).
Special Concerns
- Undocumented Migrants
- Marriage Migrants (Foreign Brides)
- Forced Migration and Development
- Foreign Domestic Workers
- Migrants Trade Unionism
Publications
- APMM News and Digest
- Migrant Monitor (analysis on issues related to migration and globalization)
Address
Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM)
G/F, No.2 Jordan Road, Kowloon
Hong Kong SAR, CHINA
ph (852) 2723-7536
fax (852) 2735-4559
e-mail: director[a]apmigrants.org; apmm[a]hknet.com
www.apmigrants.org
The China Labour Bulletin (CLB)
Year Established: 1994
Short Historical Background
A non-governmental organization founded in Hong Kong in 1994, China Labour Bulletin has grown from a small monitoring and research group into a proactive outreach organization that seeks to defend and promote the rights of workers in China. It has extensive links and wide-ranging co-operative programs with labour groups, law firms and academics throughout China, as well as with the international labour movement. Through these programs, it supports the development of democratically- run trade unions, encourages respect for and enforcement of the country’s labour laws, as well as the full participation of workers in the creation of civil society.
Objective
CLB aims to uphold and defend the rights of workers across China. Labour Bulletin exists to help make that change happen.
Programs
- Labour Rights Litigation: Established in 2003 to provide advice and support to workers seeking legal redress for violations of their labour rights. The program has a particular focus on public interest litigation, identifying cases that represent long standing and serious issues in the workplace, such as employment discrimination and the obstacles to justice for victims of occupational disease.
- Collective Bargaining: Since 2005, CLB has been advocating and promoting the use of collective bargaining in China as a means
of resolving labour disputes and providing a sound foundation for the protection of workers’ legal rights.
- Research: CLB has produced an extensive series of Chinese and English language research reports that provide in-depth analysis of some of the key labour rights issues in China today, and offer a series of recommendations designed to resolve the most pressing problems. Several reports have executive summaries in French, German and Italian. See the CLB website for a full list of research reports.
Publications
English Language Reports
- Help or Hindrance to Workers: China's Institutions of Public Redress (April 2008)
- Bone and Blood: The Price of Coal in China (March 2008)
- Speaking Out: The Workers’ Movement in China, 2005-2006 (December 2007)
- Breaking the Impasse: Promoting Worker Involvement in the Collective Bargaining and Contracts Process (November 2007)
- Small Hands: A Survey Report on Child Labour in China (September 2007)
- Public Interest Litigation in China: A New Force for Social Justice (2007)
- Falling Through the Floor: Migrant Women Workers' Quest for Decent Work in Dongguan, China (2006)
- Deadly Dust: The Silicosis Epidemic among Guangdong Jewellery Workers (2005)
Chinese Language Reports
- No Legal Recourse: Why collective labour protests lead to conflict with the law (March 2008)
- Help or Hindrance: An analysis of public protection procedures in three occupational injury cases (December 2007)
- Breaking the Impasse: Promoting Worker Involvement in the Collective Bargaining and Contracts Process (September 2007)
- Speaking Out: The Workers' Movement in China, 2005-2006 (May 2007)
- Putting People First? China's Coal Mine Accident Compensation System (November 2006)
- Bloody Coal: A Report on Coal Mine Safety in China (March 2006)
- Deadly Dust: The Silicosis Epidemic among Guangdong Jewellery Workers (December 2005)
- Standing Up: The Workers' Movement in China, 2000-2004 (September 2005)
- Conflicts of Interest and the Ineffectiveness of China's Labour Laws (November 2004)
- Occupational Health and Safety in China: Labour Rights Lose Out to Government and Business (April 2004)
China Labour Bulletin Weekly Roundup
CLB's online newsletters (also available in e-mails)
Other Information
CLB’s Resource Centre provides an overview of important labor issues in China. It helps readers appreciate Chinese labor relations from a macroscopic perspective and gives them a better understanding of the historical and economic context of the key issues. It will be of particular use to readers seeking basic background and statistical information.
The Resource Centre will cover eight topics: 1) State-owned Enterprises (SOE) reforms; 2) unemployment; 3) wages; 4) labor dispute resolution mechanisms and labor rights supervision; 5) social security; 6) work-related injuries 7) migrant workers, and 8) laws and regulations. Readers can directly access the relevant statistics by clicking on the statistics button on the right.
Address
China Labour Bulletin
Unit C, 26/F, Ford Glory Plaza
37-39 Wing Hong Street,
Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, CHINA
ph (852) 2780 2187
fax (852) 2359 4324
e-mail: clb[a]clb.org.hk
www.clb.org.hk
www.facebook.com/chinalabour
twitter.com/chinalabour
Documentation for Action Groups in Asia (DAGA)
Year Established: 1973
Short Historical Background
DAGA was formed in 1973 by the Urban Rural Mission desk of the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) to serve ecumenical action groups in the area of information solidarity - by collecting, analysing and sharing information for action. Both the CCA and DAGA are gazetted as charitable institutions in Hong Kong. DAGA envisions a just world in which all peoples, especially the marginalized, participate in decision-making processes that affect their lives and livelihood. DAGA also envisions a world where peace is not the absence of war or violence but rather a product of a community living with justice. One major initiative working towards this vision is the Center for JustPeace in Asia.
DAGA is :
- a venue to articulate the language of hope: sharing people's struggles, alternative paradigms, and where people can take control of their lives by bringing about changes even at the local level;
- a channel that links the stories of grassroots people with other action groups and the ecumenical movement;
- an infrastructure for information sharing, research and analysis on key issues for training and action; and
- a network that mobilises the resources, services and contribution of the people and action groups for communication and relevant publications.
Objectives
DAGA aims
- To establish an effective, stable and accessible resource and information center for action groups in Asia;
- To promote electronically linked database as well as strengthening the other systems and information networks among regional and national groups for more efficient production and sharing of vital information among action groups in Asia;
- To conduct research and information campaigns on important and key issues such as the rural economy, Asian transnational corporations, indigenous peoples and minority groups, peacebuilding and conflict transformation;
- To provide training and support to activists and action groups committed to peacebuilding and conflict transformation in Asia;
- To facilitate the networking of action groups in Asia as well as provide vital information for the mission work of the churches and ecumenical partners in Asia and abroad.
Programs
The Center for Justpeace in Asia (CJPA) aims to connect grassroots peace activists from around Asia to enable a process of discussing, documenting and building indigenous experiences of local grassroots communities on peace building and conflict transformation in Asia. It aslo aims to seek ways to make use of this accumulated wisdom and experience to develop more effective and appropriate models for conflict transformation and peacemaking at the local, national and global levels.
Publications
- Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand (2005)
- U.S. Military Presence in Asia ( 2004)
- Maori and Pacific Island Stories of Peace and Justice (2003)
- Kashmir - Disputed Territory; Paradise Lost (2002)
- The War on Terror: Reordering the World (2002)
- Justice! Not Impunity. Stop US Military Crimes (2002)
- Military and Ethnic Conflicts in Burma (2001)
- China and the WTO (I & II) (2000 & 2002)
- Taming Global Financial Flows (2000)
- Hong Kong (series 1997 & 1999)
- A Citizen Guide to the Globalisation of Finance (1999)
- The 13th Lok Sabha: a test of diversity and dissent in India (1999)
- Timor Lorosae (1999)
- Challenging Globalisation: Solidarity and Search for Alternatives (1999)
Address
Documentation for Action Groups in Asia (DAGA)
Unit 1-2, 18/F,
280 Portland Street,
Mongkok, Hong Kong SAR, CHINA
ph (852) 2385 2550
fax (852) 2782-3980
e-mail: dagainfo[a]daga.org.hk
www.daga.org
Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor
Year Established: 1995
Short Historical Background
Established in April 1995, the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor is an independent, non-partisan organization rooted in the local community.
Objectives
WHKHRM aims to promote better human rights protection in Hong Kong, both in terms of law and of practical life, and to encourage greater human rights awareness through education.
Programs and Activities
- Monitoring - monitoring elections, laws, policies and actions of the authorities, e.g., policing of public gatherings and demonstrations, according to international human rights standards.
- Research - researching various important topics including human rights education, the police, prisons, immigration law, constitutional issues, and freedoms of association, assembly and expression, etc.
- Advocacy – campaigning and lobbying for improvements in various areas of human rights and the rule of the law, by engaging the general public as well as policy-makers, legislators, politicians, activists, educators and media workers.
- Briefing - briefing the press, the United Nations (UN), Hong Kong and foreign governments and legislature on Hong Kong human rights issues orally or in writing.
- Education - publishing civic education and human rights materials in Chinese and English including lesson plans, leaflets,teach-yourself human rights booklets, etc.; conducting school or public talks; developing human rights education materials for students and teachers; providing human rights training for local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) especially on the use of UN human rights mechanisms; provision of resource webpages on various human rights topics such as article 23 national security legislation, police powers, media organization self-censorship, national human rights institutions (human rights commissions), international human rights treaties and instruments in the Chinese and English languages.
- Case Work - handling cases referred by other NGOs which have strong implications for legal or institutional reforms in certain areas and go beyond the interest of the individual client, especially on police and immigration issues.
Publications
- NGO shadow reports to UN treaty bodies and Universal Periodic Review
- Submissions to Hong Kong SAR Government and Legislative Council
- Reports: immigration law, prisons, human rights education, sexual orientation, etc.
- Human rights education booklets and pamphlets:
- Basic Human Rights & the Basic Law (Chinese)
- The Rule of Law & You (Chinese and English booklets)
- Democracy ABCs (Chinese booklet)
- Public Gatherings ABCs (Chinese booklet)
- Introduction to Human Right Education (Chinese pamphlet)
- The Perils of “National Education” (Chinese pamphlet)
- Police Powers (Chinese and English pamphlets)
- Public Service Broadcasting and Radio Television Hong Kong (Chinese pamphlet)
- Archival Legislation (Chinese pamphlet)
- Human Rights Commission and You (Chinese pamphlet)
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Chinese and English booklets)
- What are Human Rights (Chinese and English booklets)
- Take Your Rights Seriously (Chinese, English and Tagalog booklets).
Other Information
HKHRM has the following structure:
- Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor - a Hong Kong organization comprised of mainly Hong Kong Chinese with a mandate on human rights and the rule of the laws issues in the territory
- Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor Education Charitable Trust - a human rights charitable fund in Hong Kong to promote awareness of human rights among the people of Hong Kong
- Digital Library – a repository of human rights treaties and related documents in electronic format
- Resource and Information Centre - collects and disseminates basic human rights information.
Address
Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor (HKHRM)
Room 602, 6/F, Bonham Commercial Centre
44-46 Bonham Strand West, Sheung Wan
Hong Kong SAR, CHINA
ph (852) 2811-4488
fax (852) 2802-6012
e-mail: contact[a]hkhrm.org.hk
www.hkhrm.org.hk
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