Yohanna Ririhena and Bagus BT Saragih, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | World | Sat, November 17 2012, 7:31 AM
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Despite criticism from civil society and the United Nations rights chief, ASEAN leaders are set to take a momentous step in the association’s 45-year-old history by adopting the first-ever ASEAN human rights declaration, which aims to ensure human rights protection for 600 million people in the region.
“ASEAN will surely adopt the declaration. It was decided at the special senior officials meeting [SOM] in October. We will submit [the declaration draft] to ministers and then to the leaders to be adopted,” director general for ASEAN Cooperation at the Foreign Ministry, I Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja, told The Jakarta Post.
