Can ASEAN Take Human Rights Seriously?

by Alison Duxbury and Hsien-Li Tan

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108465900
• ISBN13: 9781108465908
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 8.5"