Mary Aileen Diez-Bacalso
Mary Aileen Diez-Bacalso is the Executive Director of FORUM-ASIA, a network of 87 human rights organisations from 23 Asian countries. Its headquarters is in Bangkok, with offices in Jakarta, Kathmandu, and Geneva. Having consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council and the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, it works on issues of fundamental freedoms, civic space, human rights, sustainable development and climate change.
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Honouring the world’s desaparecidos
(8 minutes) Mary Aileen Diez-Bacalso describes her lifework campaigning for ‘desaparecidos’, people who have been forcibly taken and ‘disappeared’ by those in power, and supporting their families.
