Human Rights: ASEAN’s Changing Perspectives

June 2, 2021June 11, 2021 Hrrc Asean Insights on Southeast Asia and Human Rights

ASEAN’S VIEW on human rights is changing ─ as seen in the last ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting hosted virtually by Vietnam from 9-12 September 2020. This could be detected in the paragraphs of the joint communique discussing the crisis in Rakhine state in Myanmar.

Human rights as an issue has drawn ASEAN attention especially since 2017 when 700,000 Muslim Rohingya fled from Myanmar’s Rakhine state to Bangladesh after a brutal Myanmar military crackdown against the Rohingya allegedly following attacks by Rohingya insurgents. It represents the clearest case of a violation of human rights by an ASEAN country today.

Summer Institute 2019: “The State of Rules-based Development”

February 3, 2020February 5, 2020 Hrrc Asean AICHR, ASEAN, News, Summer Institute, WSD Handa Center

Jakarta, 26-27 October 2019. The Human Rights Resource Centre (HRRC) hosted the Summer Institute 2019: “The State of Rules-based Development” on 26-27 October 2019 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The key objective of this Workshop is to increase awareness of the rules-based development in the building of the ASEAN Community, and how far ASEAN has transformed itself […]

AICHR CSO Symposium 2018: Enhancing CSO Engagement With ASEAN Human Rights Bodies

October 25, 2018November 5, 2018 Hrrc Asean ACWC, AICHR, ASEAN, News, NHRIs, SOMSWD, Thailand, UNDP, UNESCAP

Chiang Rai, 13 – 15 October 2018 On 13-15 October 2018 AICHR held CSO Symposium 2018. The forum, aimed at furthering communication and coordination between the Commission and its counterpart ASEAN bodies and other relevant organizations, was attended by the AICHR Representatives as well as delegates from 20 civil society organizations with consultative relationship with […]

Regional Workshop on Business and Human Rights Held in Bangkok

June 2, 2017June 14, 2017 Cess Principe AICHR, All, ASEAN, Business & Human Rights, News, Thailand

Bangkok, 1-2 June 2017 – The Human Rights Resource Centre took part in the Regional Workshop on Business and Human Rights: Moving Ahead with National Action Plans, which gathered 200 key representatives from states, businesses, civil society, and trade unions at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok, Thailand, to discuss how decision-makers from all sectors, […]

HRRC Holds First Consultative Meeting with AICHR

May 18, 2017June 14, 2017 Cess Principe ASEAN, News, Rule of Law, Vulnerable Groups

Jakarta, 18 May 2017 – The Human Rights Resource Centre (HRRC), led by Prof. David Cohen, Special Advisor to HRRC and Director of the WSD Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University (Handa Center), met with the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) on 18 May 2017 during the AICHR’s […]

ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights Grants Consultative Status to HRRC

November 19, 2016March 9, 2017 Cess Principe ASEAN, News

Jakarta, 19 November 2016 – We are pleased to announce that the application of the Human Rights Resource Centre (HRRC) for Consultative Relationship with the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) was approved during the Special Meeting of the AICHR in Ha Noi, Viet Nam on 27-28 October 2016. As an academic research centre, […]

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