Australia: Lead the Human Rights Movement in Asia

Senator Bob Carr, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Australia Re: Australia: Lead the Human Rights Movement in Asia Dear Senator Bob Carr, Congratulations on your recent appointment as Foreign Minister of Australia. I am William Nicholas Gomes, Salem-News Human Rights Ambassador. I look forward to working with you and the Gillard government to help Australia realize [...]

Making a difference

A lovely lady who introduced herself as Sochenda Kann greeted me. I was hot and weary after having been unwell with food poisoning a few days before. I had been in Cambodia for four days. Only a week before I had been freezing in England without the vaguest idea what Cambodia would be like. I [...]

Cambodia: Right to freedom of assembly has been severely

H.E. Ang Vong Vathna, Minister of Justice H.E. Sar Kheng, Minister of Interior Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia Re: Cambodia: Right to freedom of assembly has been severely violated Your Excellencies, I write to you to express our grave concerns regarding the shooting of three female garment workers in the Bavet town of Svay [...]

Friends Without A Border/Angkor Hospital for Children

Arrival in Siem Reap, Cambodia Having left England on a cold December day, I arrived at Siem Reap in Cambodia on Christmas day late in the evening. The heat hit me immediately. As I was still wearing my warm clothes I was quite relieved to feel the cool breeze on my face as I took [...]

The Jasmine Revolution in SE Asia: Facebooked, Twittered and Recapped

With the war in Libya reaching its conclusion, it now looks as if Colonel Gaddafi will be the next authoritarian leader in North Africa to fall as a result the remarkable events dubbed the Arab Spring or Jasmine Revolutions. As I noted back in March many both within Asia and beyond have asked whether such [...]

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