Singapore, 4 November 2016—On 3-4 November 2016, the AICHR successfully held a seminar on Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Human Rights in ASEAN in Singapore. The seminar was a follow-up to AICHR’s Baseline Study on the aforementioned topic. It was co-organised by AICHR-Singapore and the ASEAN CSR Network (ACN), while the Regional EU-ASEAN Dialogue […]
22 July 2016—On 20 to 22 July 2016, the ASEAN CSR Network (ACN) and the Centre for Governance, Institutions and Organisations, NUS Business School (CGIO) hosted a “Conference on Corporate Governance & Responsibility: Theory Meets Practice” in Singapore. In her welcoming remarks, Ms. Yanti Triwadiantini, Chair of ACN, commended the adoption of the ASEAN Guidelines for […]
Jakarta, 16 June 2015—In November 2015, the leaders of ASEAN signed “ASEAN 2025: Forging Ahead Together,” charting the region’s direction in the next decade. The document succeeds the “Roadmap for an ASEAN Community (2009-2015)” and consists of the (i) Kuala Lumpur Declaration on ASEAN 2025: Forging Ahead Together, (ii) ASEAN Community Vision 2025, (iii) ASEAN […]
Singapore, 10 December 2015—With the ASEAN Charter, the 10 ASEAN Member States established the legal status and institutional framework for ASEAN. The Charter envisages a “rules-based” regime that adheres to principles of rule of law, democracy and good governance, even as the region continues to observe the “ASEAN Way.” As the ASEAN moves toward the […]
Jakarta, 23 November 2015—The Raffles Institution kindly invited the Human Rights Resource Centre (HRRC) to meet with students participating in its Global Studies Program during their visit to Jakarta. The Program is an inter-disciplinary one for selected year 5 students (17-18 years old), which encompasses social sciences, area studies and other disciplines which contribute to the study […]
On January 2015, the Human Rights Resource Centre published “Keeping the Faith: A Study of Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion in ASEAN.” The Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Thailand country reports have been translated to Khmer, Bahasa Indonesia, Burmese, and Thai, respectively. The original report and the translations can be downloaded below. Keeping the Faith: […]
Reposted from The Straits Times, 4 May 2015 Ambassador-at-large Bilahari Kausikan advocates a practical approach to human rights in his speech at a seminar on Thursday on “Keeping the Faith: A Study of Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion in Asean”, organised by the Jakarta-based Human Rights Resource Centre. Read the rest of the article […]
KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg (Reposted from TodayOnline, 1 May 2015) SINGAPORE—The state of religious and racial harmony in the Republic may result in Singaporeans “sleepwalking to complacency”, with many taking for granted their right to profess and propagate diverse beliefs. Such a risk was raised by Singapore Management University law lecturer Eugene Tan yesterday, as he […]
KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg (Reposted from TodayOnline, 1 May 2015) SINGAPORE—Blurring lines between religion and nationalism, weak rule of law and the politicisation of religion are primary factors fuelling religious persecution in member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and across the region, concluded a study commissioned by the Human Rights Resource Centre for […]
(Reposted from TodayOnline, 1 May 2015) Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe partly because countries in the region are clinging to value systems based on an extreme ideological concept of the universality of rights, said Mr Bilahari Kausikan, Ambassador at Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who hopes South-east Asia and Singapore will […]
