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3 Hum. Rts. Defender 1 (1994)

handle is hein.journals/hurighdef3 and id is 1 raw text is: ee THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WAIFS Human Ri hts Dei,.,fen er University of New South Wales PO Box I Kensington 2033 Australia Vol 3 No 1 1994 Ph (61 2) 6972807 Fax (61 2) 3137209 ISSN 1039-2637 Asia Pacific regional NGO network established Seventy human rights advocates from 58 organisations based in fifteen countries of the Asia-Pacific region held a meeting in Bangkok on Feb 2 and 3 to create a new regional NGO facilitating group. By establishing a network the NGOs present have taken their suc- cessful Vienna strategy further. For the first time an active regional net- work will facilitate human rights cam- paigns and activities, not just in relation to the UN system, but on a local, national and regional basis. Speaking on behalf of the or- ganisers, Boonthan Verawongseof the Bangkok-based Coordinating Com- mittee of Human Rights Organisa- tions in Thailand (CCHROT) and the Asian Cultural Forum on Develop- ment (ACFOD) said The meeting this year is the follow-up to Vienna and the first opportunity for the human rights advocates to strategise for the future The new regional network will be occupied on a number of fronts. With a number of important international meetings coming up, like the UN World Conference on Women (Beij- ing, 1995), UN World Summit on So- cial Development (Copenhagen, 1995) and the UN Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, September 1994), a regional network will be cru- cial to effective lobbying and or- ganisation for human rights to get onto these agendas. The previous regional meeting, the NGO Forum held in April 1993, a preparatory meeting for Vienna, had accomplished great things - an NGO Declaration which countered the ef- forts of some Asian governments to undermine the universality and in- divisibility of human rights and a new sense of cooperation and solidarity for Asia-Pacific NGOs to take their issues to the international community. At Vienna the Asia-Pacific NGOs, despite great difficulties posed by the venue and the general NGO disor- ganisation, were the most effective regional group. They influenced the final outcomes as well as the NGO plans for further global networking, continued page 3 Release for Aung San Suu Kyi? Something is happening in Burma but it is hard to say just what, let alone what it means. First came the news that Burma's ruling military junta may release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, (under house arrest since July 1989), in July of this year. Media reports around the world predicted her release when topranking junta leader General Khin Nyunt, first secretary of the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), told Japanese reporters that the legitimate period of her arrest will expire in July. However a member of the Nation- al League for Democracy said it was dangerous to believe promises by generals. There is nothing new since they always say that she is free to leave the country any time she likes if she renounces politics he said. But I don't think she will accept that... he is just playing with words. He will ig- nore what he said like the junta ig- nored the result of the 1990 election he added. Continued page 14 Human Rights Defender Vol 3 No I Feb 1994 Pue I Features in this issue Iran woos Central Asia -----------------------Page 4 Retrospective punishment 'George Zdenkowski --Page 6 World Round-up - ---------Page 8 From Vienna to Beiing - Jomna Kerr--------Page 9 Carpet-bagrs get wise to child labour ------Page 12 Indefinite detention Sam Garkawe----- --Page 12 World Summit for Social Development --7-----Page 3 Diplomacy Training Program - -----------Page1

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