Bruce Baird (Cook, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

notes that Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, General Secretary of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar:

(a)

remains under house arrest and incommunicado;

(b)

has been in prison or under house arrest for 11 of the past 16 years; and

(c)

is only one of over 1,100 political prisoners in Myanmar;

(2)

calls on the State Peace and Development Council of Myanmar to:

(a)

allow its citizens to peacefully exercise their rights to freedom of association and assembly; and

(b)

immediately and unconditionally release all people who have been arrested for the peaceful exercise of these rights;

(3)

notes that the UN Security Council has now placed Myanmar on its listing for review and encourages the Security Council to closely monitor the concerning human rights record of the current Burmese Government; and

(4)

expresses its concern regarding the 500,000 displaced people in Myanmar and the further 150,000 displaced people on the Thai border in refugee camps.

Alan Cadman (Mitchell, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

notes the maturing relationship between Vietnam and Australia, the high-level contacts between Prime Ministers, Australia’s development cooperation program of approximately $81 million per year and the strong people-to-people links;

(2)

notes continuing international concern about human rights issues in Vietnam, including gaoling, administrative detention and harassment of human rights activists for their advocacy of democracy and religious freedom;

(3)

notes the importance of addressing the cases of individuals such as The Most Venerable Thich Quang Do and Thich Huyen Quang, Hoa Hao Elder Mr Le Quang Liem, Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh, Dr Pham Hong Son, journalists Nguyen Khac Toan and Hguyen Vu Binh and many ethnic Montagnard people such as Siu Boch, A Brih and Y Tim Bya;

(4)

calls on the Vietnamese Government to observe its international obligations on human rights, including the provision of free and fair elections; and

(5)

notes the Australian Government’s active support for, and promotion of, democratic freedoms and human rights in Vietnam, including through the annual human rights dialogue and other cooperation programs, and encourages the Government to continue these efforts.