Tag: ASEAN Ministerial Meeting
Vietnam report highlights human rights achievements
Vietnam’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Report in the second cycle was reviewed at a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) on February 5 in Geneva, Switzerland.
The report stressed the achievements Vietnam has recorded in respecting, protecting and promoting human rights as well as the implementation of...
SE Asia Legitimacy in Crisis
Thailand is not alone. Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia all face rising questions over future of democracy.
If no one agrees to the rules, it’s hard to play the game. This is increasingly true in Southeast Asia’s various democratic or semi-democratic states, most acutely now in Thailand, but the dynamic is...
‘Myanmar’s success is ASEAN’s success’
This year is an instrumental turning year in deciding the success of ASEAN Community building process. The role of Myanmar as the ASEAN Chair in the delivery of key targets and priorities in 2014, and in the development of the ASEAN Community’s post-2015 vision, is therefore very significant.
The chairmanship...
The failure of ASEAN leadership?
CANBERRA, Australia – It was a packed auditorium – a surprisingly gentle and curious audience at the Australian National University (ANU) looking for reasons to be excited about the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a 10-member grouping of more than 630 million people that represents Australia’s 2nd largest...
When Asean deliberates on Asean
SHAPING THE FUTURE: For the Blue Economy concept to work, Asean needs to be regarded as one and not just in its constituent parts
VERY little of the discussion that ensues in a meeting on Asean touches on things that matter.
What usually happens is a well-tried recital of what Asean...
Thailand gears up for ASEAN Summit in Myanmar
Thailand is set to focus on creating democracy, human rights, national security, and resolving regional conflicts during the upcoming 24th ASEAN Summit during May 10-11 in Myanmar.
The Department of ASEAN Affairs said the meeting in Nay Pyi Taw would allow ASEAN leaders to review progress in building the ASEAN...
Civil society delegates boycott ASEAN meeting
Civil society leaders from around the region, scheduled to meet with ASEAN heads of government in Naypyidaw, have refused to participate in the interface meeting scheduled for Sunday, citing interference from some Southeast Asian governments.
The half-hour meeting is an initiative of the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN People’s Forum (ACSC/APF),...
ASEAN’s House of Horrors
A submission by the Hong Kong-based Asia Legal Resource Center (ALRC) to the Human Rights Council in Geneva went largely ignored by the mainstream media over the last week, making just a few paragraphs in newspapers with sharp-eyed reporters.
A submission by the Hong Kong-based Asia Legal Resource Center (ALRC)...
Why ASEAN stays quiet as the Thai military seizes control
Last month in Thailand – one of the founding members of the Southeast Asia Nations Association (ASEAN) – a surprising thing happened: a military coup. Or maybe it wasn’t so surprising: After all, depending on how you tally them, the country has seen somewhere in the area of 14...
ASEAN Political, Security Issues Impeding Integration
PHNOM PENH — ASEAN nations are trying to achieve economic integration some time next year. But experts say the 10 Southeast nations that comprise the bloc have many domestic political and security issues that must be ironed out.
PHNOM PENH — ASEAN nations are trying to achieve economic integration some...
