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Category: ASEAN Charter

  • China Aggression Sounds Wake-Up Call for Vietnam Makers

    By Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen June 17, 2014 For more than eight years, Luong Thi Kim Oanh bought cases of thread from China for her garment factory in Hanoi. Last month, rattled by an anti-China riot in her country, she placed her first order from South Korea. “I used to buy 90 percent of my thread…

  • Vietnam Questions 12 Activists After Training Stint in the Philippines

    RFA Oct 10, 2013 Authorities in Vietnam detained for questioning a dozen young activists on their return from a training stint with a civil society organization in the Philippines amid suspicion in Hanoi that they might be involved in anti-government activities, according to friends and family. The 12 youths had attended the two-week 2013 Civil…

  • Challenging ASEAN:The US Pivot Through Southeast Asia’s Eyes

    December 2012 By Donald K. Emmerson The US pivot toward Asia has been viewed largely through the lens of American security and economic competition with China. Within that context, writes Donald K. Emmerson, Washington is also deepening its involvement in ASEAN in terms of both security and trade. At stake is ASEAN’s vaunted centrality as…

  • International Trade Union calls for revision of ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

    ITUC/ITUC –ASIA PACIFIC STATEMENT ON ASEAN HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and its regional body, ITUC Asia-Pacific, taking note of the recent initiative to issue an ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) consistent with the Roadmap for an ASEAN Community 2009-2015, express serious concern with a position which represents a retreat from…

  • Indecision and Infighting: That’s the Asean Way

    By MARK MCDONALD View From Asia November 20, 2012, 11:23 pm HONG KONG — Southeast Asian leaders have failed — again — to make any headway on resolving the dangerous territorial disputes over various islands in the South China Sea. At their regional summit meeting this week, they could not even agree to  set up…

  • Asean Human-Rights Pledge Leaves Critics Cool

    The Wall Street Journal, November 19, 2012 By CHUN HAN WONG PHNOM PENH—Southeast Asian leaders signed their first-ever joint declaration on human rights, a landmark in a region whose governments are often criticized for curtailing freedom—but rights groups dismissed it as inadequate. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ declaration—adopted at the 10-member group’s summit in…

  • PHNOM PENH STATEMENT – ON THE ADOPTION OF THE ASEAN HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION (AHRD)

    PHNOM PENH STATEMENT ON THE ADOPTION OF THE ASEAN HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION (AHRD) WE, the Heads of State/Government of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), on the occasion of the 21st ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; REAFFIRMING ASEAN’s commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental…

  • ASEAN adopts controversial human rights declaration

    Southeast Asian nations have adopted a controversial human rights declaration at their summit in Cambodia. Critics say loopholes will enable authoritarian regimes to suppress citizens by citing national security. Leaders of the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed the joint declaration, claiming it would enshrine human rights for the region’s 600 million citizens.…

  • “ASEAN Human Rights Declaration should maintain international standards,” urge key UN expert group

    GENEVA (16 November 2012) – The largest body of independent experts in the United Nations Human Rights system today called on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to ensure that international human rights standards are maintained when they come to consider the adoption of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration this Sunday, 18 November. “It…

  • Statement of ASEAN Civil Society at the 2012 Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum

    Statement of Civil Society Delegates from Southeast Asia to 2012 Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) 31 July 2012   Southeast Asian Civil Society Groups Highlight Increasing Rights Violations Online, Call for Improvements to Internet Governance Processes in the Region We, the undersigned civil society delegates from Southeast Asia who attended and participated in the…