Bangkok: The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and twenty eight civil society organizations in Asia condemn the recent imposition of the punishment by the Singaporean authorities .

All three were condemned of drug-related offences and were dead on 5 New Style calendar month 2018. As a network of human rights organizations, FORUM-ASIA sees the punishment as a grave violation of the proper to life – the foremost basic and essential right for various rights to be complete.

The use of the punishment has seen a world decline in recent years, signifying a movement towards less complicated ways in which of deterring crimes.[1] Despite this international trend, several Governments in Asia still use the punishment.

Just this year, Asian country enlarged the scope of crimes coated by the punishment. The numbers of those sentenced to capital punishment in Bangladesh yearly remains intense. The region has to boot seen associate accumulated tendency to use the punishment for drug-related offences.

Republic of land has been corporal punishment primarily those condemned of traffic in recent years. it’s calculable that China executes a full ton to thousands yearly for traffic or murder, although precise figures unit arduous to look out.

The Sri Lankan cabinet recently approved the President’s proposal to need steps towards implementing the capital punishment to those sentenced to death for drug offences and WHO still operate ‘drug rackets’ whereas in jail. among the Philippines, several State officers still push for the revival of the punishment, despite having previously committed itself to its ending.

Governments still retain the punishment despite worrisome problems. there is not any convincing proof to support that the punishment deters crime.

In Mongolia, the punishment was abolished once it had been recognized that the threat of execution didn’t have a deterrent impact.[2] Arguments for its use unit based totally further on vox populi rather than on solid scientific proof.

The impact of the punishment disproportionately affects folks that unit usually the poor and conjointly the foremost marginalized, as they have restricted access to resource and power.

Judicial systems worldwide unit all prone to abuse.

In Vietnam, the cases of Ho Duy Hai and lupus Van Manh, WHO were sentenced to death despite gaps obvious and allegations of police exemption, cast strong doubts on the standard of the system. capital punishment is irreversible; it violates the proper to life and conjointly the correct to live free from cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment – basic rights of all grouping.

It goes against our goals of promoting rehabilitation for the condemned, and conjointly the values and standards of universal human rights we tend to tend to any or all symbolize.

On the world Day against the punishment, we tend to tend to specific our grave concern on the continued use of the punishment in Asia. we tend to tend to charm all Governments to work for the ending of the punishment and to create a justice system that will respect human rights for all, in addition because the perpetrators and conjointly the victims. providing we tend to tend to respect the proper to life and dignity of all can we tend to tend to maneuver towards a world humane society.

The statement is supported by:

1. Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), India

2. Bytes for All, Pakistan

3(ADHOC), Cambodia

4. Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence – Komisi untuk Pongo pygmaeus Hilang dan Korban Tindak Kekerasan (KontraS), Indonesia

5. Community Resource Centre, Thailand

6. Community Self Reliance Centre (CSRC), Nepal

7. Equality Asian nation, Myanmar

8. Human Rights Commission of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Pakistan

9. Human Rights Alert, India

10. INFORM, Sri Lanka

11. Law & Society Trust, Sri Lanka

12. National (Catholic) Commission for Justice and Peace

13. Madaripur Legal Aid Association (MLAA), Bangladesh

14. Asian Democracy Network, the Maldives

15. National Commission for Justice and Peace, Pakistan

16. Odhikar, Bangladesh

17. People’s Watch, India

18. People’s commonality for democratic Democracy (PSPD), Asian nation

19. People’s committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), India

20. (PAHRA), the Philippines

21. expatriate and Migratory Movements analysis Unit (RMMRU), University of city, Bangladesh

22. South Asian country Cell for Human Rights Education and observance (SICHREM), India

23. Suara Rakyat Asian nation, Malaysia

24. Taiwan Association for Human Rights, Taiwan