Asia and the Pacific Regional Network

The Asia and the Pacific Regional Network brings together historic sites, museums and memory initiatives to promote equitable, inclusive, and secular societies that respect difference and diversity, ensure access to human rights and justice, and contribute to strengthening the prevention of hatred and violent conflict to promote human dignity.

Through workshops and joint projects, Asian and Pacific Sites of Conscience open dialogue on some of the most pressing human rights and social justice issues and inspire communities to become actively engaged in addressing these.

For more information, or to become involved, please contact Silvia Fernández, Global Networks Program Director.

Regional Projects and Resources

Documenting the Rohingya Crisis

2019-Present

In collaboration with local partners, the Coalition’s GIJTR is working in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh to build the capacity of local activists to document and archive evidence of human rights abuses committed in the Rakhine State.

Protecting Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in the Asia and Pacific Region

September 2022

From 25 to 30 September Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR), the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC), and the Global Initiative for Justice, Truth, and Reconciliation (GIJTR) held an international summit on “Protecting Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in the Asia and Pacific Region” in Jakarta, Indonesia. This summit also highlighted the case study of the Rohingya community in the face of Myanmar’s military-backed violence and the challenging conditions in the refugee camps in the neighboring countries.