Can ASEAN Take Human Rights Seriously?
Published on 20. March 2019
978-1-108-64646-8 (ISBN)
Description
The adoption of the ASEAN Charter in 2007 represented a watershed moment in the organisation's history - for the first time the member states explicitly included principles of human rights and democracy in a binding regional agreement. Since then, developments in the region have included the creation of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights in 2009 and the adoption of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration in 2012. Despite these advances, many commentators ask whether ASEAN can take human rights seriously. The authors explore this question by comprehensively examining the new ASEAN human rights mechanisms in the context of existing national and international human rights institutions. This book places these regional mechanisms and commitments to human rights within the framework of the political and legal development of ASEAN and its member states and considers the way in which ASEAN could strengthen its new institutions to better promote and protect human rights.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Worked examples or Exercises
File size
3,39 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-108-64646-8 (9781108646468)
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Alison Duxbury | Hsien-Li Tan
Can ASEAN Take Human Rights Seriously?
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03/2019
Cambridge University Press
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Content
1. Assessing human rights implementation in Southeast Asia; 2. Understanding the tensions and ambiguities in Southeast Asian attitudes towards human rights; 3. The utility of human rights mechanisms in the ASEAN region; 4. Operationalising human rights in ASEAN; Conclusion: taking human rights seriously in ASEAN.
