March 2012
ASEAN Integration in Human Rights
Problems and Prospects for Legalization and Institutionalization
This article discusses the efforts of Southeast Asian countries to address human rights issues at the regional level through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It seeks to elucidate the position taken by the ASEAN member states and their representatives towards the design of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) — the regional body tasked with a non-adjudicative function of assessing and addressing human rights issues in ASEAN. Tracing the discourse from differing viewpoints, the article identifies an evolutionary path down which ASEAN states are pursuing integration in human rights issues through a realist-rationalist perspective.
© 2012 Waseda University Global COE Program, Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration (GIARI)
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Theoben Jerdan C Orosa
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