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Safeguarding People and the Environment in Chinese Investments: A Guide for Community Advocates

The  aim  of  this  guide  is  to  help  civil  society  organizations  and  community  advocates  gain  an  improved  understanding  of  Chinese  investors  and  China-led  finance  institutions  and  the  guidelines,  policies  and  standards that apply to their overseas operations. It is hoped that the information and ideas contained here will help...

Joint Ministerial Statement of the Seventeenth (17th) ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Council

We acknowledged the progress of implementation of the ASCC Blueprint 2025 and development of the work plans of the various sectoral bodies of the ASCC, including cross-cutting initiatives and community-building issues. We encourage sectoral bodies under the ASCC, with the support of the ASEAN Secretariat, to continue to implement...

Strengthening and Harmonizing Labour Standards in ASEAN: A Framework for Union Advocacy

This study, Strengthening and Harmonizing Labour Standards in ASEAN: A Framework for  Union  Advocacy, covers  international  labour  standards  on  wages;  working  time; social  protection,  including  occupational  safety  and  health,  social  security  and  maternity  protection; equality of opportunity and treatment and non-discrimination at work; freedom of association and right to...

Briefing Paper: Another Piece of the Democratic – Puzzle Reform of the Administrative Structure of Myanmar Essential

Under the leadership of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the mantra of ‘change’, the National League for Democracy (NLD) won an overwhelming victory in Myanmar’s 2015 general elections. This display of popular support for the NLD shows that people of Myanmar are fully invested in progressing towards a...

Human Rights in Southeast Asia Vol. 2 [SHAPE – SEA]

This textbook is aimed for undergraduate students who are studying a general education level course on human rights, or students who do human rights as a part of their degree in courses such as sociology, law, politics, ASEAN studies or development studies. The textbook does not require specialist knowledge...

Human Rights in Southeast Asia Vol. 1 [SHAPE – SEA]

This textbook is aimed for undergraduate students who are studying a general education level course on human rights, or students who do human rights as a part of their degree in courses such as sociology, law, politics, ASEAN studies or development studies. The textbook does not require specialist knowledge...

Breaking the Silence and Unlocking Barriers for Human Rights in ASEAN: A report on the Performance of the ASEAN Human Rights Mechanisms in 2015

The following report is the sixth annual review of the performance of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) human rights mechanisms produced by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and the Solidarity for ASEAN People’s Advocacies – Task Force on ASEAN and Human Rights (SAPA...

Annex 1 – Application Form TOT 2016

Annex 1 - Application Form TOT 2016 Annex 1 - Application Form TOT 2016

Brochure TOT 2016

TOT ASEAN Programme TOT ASEAN Programme

[END OF MISSION STATEMENT] Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia: Professor Rhona Smith

“The Cambodia of 2016 is very different from the Cambodia of 1991,” says Special Rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, Prof. Rhona Smith, this evening. “The progress and development is well worth celebrating, however imperfect aspects of that progress may be. The time for the Government to blame the...