Category: ASEAN Charter

Human rights organizations express concern over ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

Less than Adequate AICHR Formal Consultation with Civil Society on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration June 21, 2012 Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Dignity International, and Article 19 welcome the first official consultation between ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and civil…

June 21, 2012
Civil Society Demands Transparency and Consultation on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

Media advisory 8th April 2012 In a joint statement released today, over 100 civil society organizations and networks across the ASEAN region have called for the release of the draft ASEAN Human Rights Declaration and the initiation of meaningful public consultations on its content. The Declaration is being drafted by the ASEAN Inter-governmental Commission…

May 29, 2012
AICHR’s Consultation on ASEAN Human Rights Declaration: Too Little Too Late

(16 April 2012, Bangkok) The ASEAN human rights Commission appears to plan a one-off, token “consultation” with civil society, and only after it will have finalized, most if not all, the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration – this is outrageous and utterly unacceptable, said the Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacy Task Force on ASEAN and Human…

May 29, 2012
ASEAN’s road to nowhere? Subverting standards within the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

“Significant swathes of the draft focus on limiting rights, rather than promoting and protecting them, with some particularly odious amendments being proposed by persistent human rights abusers Laos and Vietnam.” By Phil Robertson Publihed in Strategic Review In July, the ASEAN foreign ministers meeting in Phnom Penh will receive one of the most important documents…

May 29, 2012