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APRIL 1, 2025

On Monday, Amnesty International urged Central Asia and EU nations to focus on actively protecting human rights and civil society spaces during the upcoming EU-Central Asia Summit. There has been a crackdown on freedom of press, belief, speech, association, and assembly in several Central Asia countries.

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MAY 23, 2025

Diego Garcia has played a crucial role in ensuring the security of the UK and its allies across the Middle East, East Africa, and South Asia for more than 50 years. However, the process of finalizing the deal was long and tedious, coming after 11 rounds of negotiations with the previous government.

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MARCH 18, 2025

A Thai government delegation is visiting Xinjiang, China, from March 18 to 20, 2025, following international outrage over Thailand’s forced deportation of 40 Uyghurs in February. Sodsong added that the country faced criticism for over 11 years despite its efforts to improve the detention conditions.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

The UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) is set to review Pakistan’s human rights record this Thursday and Friday under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). According to Amnesty International (AI), the review “comes at a crucial time for the country, as human rights violations and abuses remain rampant.”

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APRIL 22, 2025

Transnational organized cybercrime groups from East and Southeast Asia are rapidly expanding operations beyond the region, leveraging advanced technologies and strategic relocation to evade growing enforcement pressure, according to a new report published Monday by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

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APRIL 6, 2024

The council also extended the mandates of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran and Myanmar and the independent international fact-finding mission on Iran. Amnesty International alleged these strikes amounted to war crimes under customary international humanitarian law.

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MAY 24, 2025

Amnesty International reported on Friday that women participating in protests against the government in Georgia have been subjected to intimidation, harassment, and gender-based physical and psychological violence by state authorities.

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APRIL 9, 2025

HRW holds that the use of royal insult laws in Thailand to prosecute primarily foreigners amounts to possible violations of human rights. Lse majest laws raise serious human rights concerns. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) protects the right to freedom of expression under Article 19.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The United Nations Agenda 2030 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seems to have a blind spot for the role of private and private international law. In this occasion the focus is on Asia. The Chinese Journal of Transnational Law invites submissions for its Vol. That blind spot is beginning to be closed.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Ireland Department of Foreign Affairs Wednesday ordered a Chinese overseas “police station” in Dublin to cease operations, according to Asia-based human rights group Safeguard Defenders. The order comes after Safeguard investigated whether the Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station complies with international laws.

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JUNE 24, 2024

This operation included law enforcement action in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. While several international legal instruments are utilized to combat human trafficking, the most important is the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women, and Children.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Norway-based Telenor Group , an international telecommunications company with extensive operations in much of Europe and Asia, sharply criticized a cyber security bill proposed by the leaders of Myanmar’s February 1 military coup in a statement issued Monday.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

Amnesty International (AI) issued a call on Wednesday for the Pakistan government to cease its arbitrary detention and harassment of Afghan refugees and asylum seekers. Despite international obligations to protect refugees, recent policy shifts in Pakistan have led to increased vulnerability for this population.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2024

.” Reporters Without Borders (RSF) also called for Dong’s release, stating that the only evidence presented against him was his contact with foreign diplomats and scholarships he received from international universities. She added that individuals who violate the law will be held accountable.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Amnesty International recognized Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the Russian election watchdog Golos (“Voice”), as a prisoner of conscience on Tuesday. Organizations and individuals labelled under the laws would face severe limits on their civil and political participation in addition to financial scrutiny.

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JANUARY 21, 2025

Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Denis Krivosheev said on Monday that the sentences handed down to participants in May protests against the law on “foreign influence” in Georgia, demonstrate the government’s brutality against the opposition, calling them a “parody of justice.”

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JANUARY 19, 2024

The United Nations Agenda 2030 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seems to have a blind spot for the role of private and private international law. In this occasion the focus is on Asia. The Chinese Journal of Transnational Law invites submissions for its Vol. That blind spot is beginning to be closed.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

The Philippines National Maritime Council questioned China’s cooperation in reducing tensions between states, and the Office of the President says China has overlooked the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the 2016 Arbitral Award regarding the South China Sea, and international law that protects ships and aircraft.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Amnesty International on Friday raised concerns about the ongoing coercion of Ukrainian teachers in Russian-occupied territories to teach the Russian curriculum to school-going children. Under international human rights law, states are obligated to prevent acts of torture and inhumane treatment.

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DECEMBER 1, 2024

Amnesty International on Friday condemned the police violence and mass arrests in Georgia, following peaceful protests against the decision of Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze to suspend the country’s application for EU membership until 2028.

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OCTOBER 14, 2023

This national conference will be held on 21 February 2024 at The University of Sydney Law School in Australia. Business compliance in international transactions across the Asia-Pacific region holds immense importance for organizations seeking to expand their activities within this dynamic and evolving landscape.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The 2024 Asia-Pacific Colloquium of the Journal of Private International Law (JPIL) will be held on 5-6 December 2024 at the Melbourne Law School of the University of Melbourne in Australia. The theme of the 2024 Colloquium is ‘Private International Law: Domestic Law or International Law?’

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JURIST

MARCH 27, 2025

Amnesty International condemned Thursday the “systematic attack” on the rights of Baloch activists in Pakistan. The statement follows a wave of detentions and reported use of unlawful force by law enforcement agencies in Quetta and Karachi.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

” The agency urged the Pakistani government to implement a screening mechanism to identify individuals requiring international support, offering help to establish a system “that addresses the legitimate concerns of the Government of Pakistan as well as Afghans seeking safety on its territory.”

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Hart Studies in Private International Law – Asia has officially released its 9th Volume in the Series as an open-access book. This edition, edited by Olivier Gaillard and Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer, is titled Private International Law in East Asia: From Imitation to Innovation and Exportation (Hart Publishing, 2024).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Guest Blog: Rethinking Private International Law Education – Insights from a Global Webinar Written by: Corinna Chen (CAPLUS research intern, 2024, Sydney Law School, Australia) Private international law (PIL) plays a critical role in shaping how future legal professionals and citizens engage with a complex, interconnected world.

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APRIL 16, 2023

A group of human rights organizations on Saturday, wrote an open letter urging top Armenian officals to oppose a proposed law that would restrict access to internet services, thus limiting the population’s freedom of expression.

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APRIL 15, 2025

Kyrgyzstan detained the prominent Kyrgyz human rights defender, Rita Karasartova without formal charges on Monday.Amnesty International denounced the detention as an “alarming sign of deepening repression.” Rita Karasartova was also highlighted in Amnesty International’s 2023 Write for Rights campaign.

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APRIL 4, 2024

UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) revealed Wednesday the use of indiscriminate landmines in Myanmar has caused an increase in civilian casualties, with over 20 percent of them being children. Civilians in Myanmar have suffered from a total of 1,052 casualties from landmine and explosive ordnances in 2023, alone.

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JURIST

MARCH 20, 2024

The UN’s International Labor Organization (ILO) stated in a report on Tuesday that forced labor in the private economy generates annual illegal profits of US$236 billion per year. billion in Europe and Central Asia, US$48.4 billion in Asia and the Pacific, US$34.9 This has risen by US$64 billion since 2014.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Amnesty International released a report Thursday alleging the targeted use of Pegasus spyware against prominent Indian journalists, rekindling apprehensions about government surveillance and press freedom in the country, following the 2021 Pegasus project disclosures that sent shockwaves through India.

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JURIST

JULY 16, 2021

The human rights groups involved are Human Rights Now, Human Rights Watch, Japan International Volunteer Center, Justice For Myanmar and Mekong Watch. Concern arises from financial transactions between the Japanese companies being shielded from scrutiny by Myanmar laws.

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JURIST

MAY 18, 2024

President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili on Friday vetoed a controversial “foreign agents” law that has been decried as “Russian-style” legislation and has sparked massive protests in the country. Zourabichvili took to her Twitter account to announce the veto, saying, “Today, I vetoed the Russian law.

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2024

The Parliament of Kyrgyzstan passed a bill modeled after Russia’s “foreign agents” law on Thursday, increasing the government’s oversight of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The draft law has been strongly criticized by human rights activists, foreign governments and NGOs around the world.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

As part of Hart’s Studies in Private International Law Asia , Min Kyung Kim, Judge at the Incheon District Court in Korea, just published her new book on Overriding Mandatory Rules in International Commercial Disputes: Korean and Comparative Law.

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JURIST

APRIL 30, 2023

Asia director for Human Rights Watch Elaine Pearson called for authorities to release Thanalop and drop the charges.“By ” HRW highlighted how Thanalop’s detainment is in violation of multiple international human rights.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The National Security Act has come under criticism from human rights organisations in recent years, including allegations that it was used as an “excuse to deny people the right to express different political views and to exercise fundamental human rights including the right to freedom of expression as established in international standards.”

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