Tag: ASEAN Community
When Will Timor-Leste Join ASEAN?
A look at where the country’s admission to the regional grouping stands.
By Prashanth Parameswaran
October 06, 2016
As ASEAN approaches the commemoration of its 50th anniversary next year, one of the key things to watch will be the organization’s progress in admitting an eleventh member: Timor-Leste. With Dili’s admission gaining traction...
ASEAN leaders failing dismally on human rights, say campaigners
Human rights advocates say ASEAN leaders are paying even less attention than usual to human rights concerns across the region despite their commitment to ramp up ties on a range of issues at this year’s leaders gathering in Laos.
Monday 10 October 2016
Words by Malarvili Meganathan
Human rights advocates say ASEAN...
Nicholas Farrelly — ASEAN’s unstable solidarity sits uneasily on its people
Next year it will celebrate its 50th anniversary as a group brought together under the trying conditions of the Cold War. In its initial incarnation, ASEAN united Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines in a joint quest to resist communist expansion.
October 12, 2016 6:00 pm JST
In the wake...
Academics Warn SEA Human Rights in Regression
Southeast Asia is witnessing a curb on freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and an overt use of security acts, said Professor Vitit Muntabhorn of Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Law, Monday at the 4 International Conference on Human Rights and Peace and Conflict in Southeast Asia in Bangkok.
BANGKOK —...
Southeast Asian Rights Situation ‘Going Downhill Fast’
From the crackdown on freedom of expression by the military government in Thailand to restrictions on LGBT communities in Singapore and Indonesia, 2016 has not been a good year for the human rights situation in Southeast Asia.
14 October 2016
Aun Chhengpor
VOA Khmer
Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch said the situation...
The Asean People’s Forum needs a rethink
The problem with these organisations is that they never offer any constructive solutions, or thoughts, but attend and speak at the APF with one intention, that of attempting to destroy the image the image of their targets by creating division among the participants.
By The Independent - October 20, 2016
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What ASEAN Can Learn from Thailand’s Student Massacre
Lessons for the region from the 1976 Thammasat University massacre.
By Mong Palatino. October 18, 2016
While Thailand was gripped by news of the king’s death last week, another important anniversary had passed the week before in the Southeast Asian state. Forty years ago on October 6, more than 40 student...
Unshackling ASEAN
As the Association of Southeast Asian Nations approaches its 50th anniversary next year, its failure to reach a consensus regarding Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea has raised concerns throughout the region. Although the requirement that all decisions be made by consensus enables disparate member states to...
Asean’s consensus principle should not be compromised
The idea of a permanent Asean Commission for the Management of the South China Sea Disputes would be feasible if the dispute were within Asean, but not when it is between a member and an outside country.
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Bernard Sim Kheng Joo
Published: 4:00 AM, November 9, 2016
The Association of South-east Asian...
UN human rights review is largely toothless – but it’s giving a boost to Asian civil society groups
A United Nations initiative reviewing human rights records of countries around the world is indirectly strengthening civil society organisations in Southeast Asia by allowing them to participate in the process. But the groups are still blocked from ensuring human rights are meaningfully protected in their countries.
A United Nations initiative...
