Author: ASEAN
Year: 15 December 1998
Adopted during the Southeast Asian economic crisis, the Ha Noi Plan of Action is a plan to improve regional integration, and to “consolidate and strengthen the economic fundamentals of the Member Countries.” Under this Plan of Action, Member States undertook to: “4.8 Enhance exchange of information in the field of human rights among ASEAN Countries in order to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms of all peoples in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action.”